The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-13
COTTON PEOPLE TO
 MEET IN ATLANTA
GROWERS, SINNERS AND oTH- FRS ENGAGED IN ANY WAY IN COTTON BUSINESS TO HOLD IN TERNATlONAL CONVENTION.

Atlanta, Ga, July 13.-Preparations have been made by the city and the state of Georgia for the entertainment next fall of perhaps the largest gathering of cot ton growers, spinners and men interested directly or indirectly in cotton the world oyer has ever seen The delegates who will be present at the International Cot ton convention will be royalty entertained by the city and state officials.
 There will be from 50 to 100 foreign spin ners at the convention. These spinners will represent the cotton mill interest of Great Britain and the continent, and the domestic spnners of New England and the south will also attend. There will be besides representatives of all the cotton exchanges, American and foreign, and delegates from the Southern Cotton as- sociatlon and the Farmers union, as well as from the marine insurance companies.
 A special train of the Southern railway will bring the delegates from New York to the south. The convention will be held here October [, s and 9. After the conven- ton is concluded the delegates will be taken through the cotton belt on d special train, and they will be shown cotton in every stage, from the field and gin to the mills.
 The convention is part of general ten dency to bring all cotton interests to- gether for mutual understanding. At the Vienna conference the foreign spinners were invited to come to Atlanta. The Atlanta gathering will be greater and more varied in the interests it represents even than the European conference.
 Problems of baling, transportation and marketing of cotton will be discussed at the convention from every viewpoint. The visit to the south will be revelation to the European spinners, many of whom have never seen the south, the production of it's great staple, and the operation of it's cotton mills.
 Apropos of cotton production, President HarVe Jordan of the Southern Cotton as sociaton. announced today that on his tour of the cotton belt, which will begin next week, he will urge reforms in the methods of balng, handling and market ing cotton, so to place it on parity with foreign cotton.
 He has photographs showing the im- maculate condition in which Egyptian and other foreign cotton reaches the spinner. The foreign growers use canvas instead of jute bagging.
 "I favor the use of cotton bagging on the part of southern farmers" said Mir. Jordan, discussing this phase of cotton. Cotton bagging not only holds the marks better, being more closely woven than tho jute but 1t opens a new demand for cot ton"
 Mr Jordan says that he expects that cotton next fall will bring the highest price in twenty years, and he will urge the farmers in his speeches to keep to as slow movement of the crop as possible to maintain good prices He will also comment on what he saw in Europe' where he not only attended the spinners' conference at Vienna, but also visited the large mill centers.
 Mr Jordan will open his campaign in North and South Carolina. On July 19 he will speak at Garner, N. C., and at Ral- eigh on July 20. He will speak also at Union, s. C., on July 29. at Spartanburg on July 90 and at Gaffney on July 31.
 Leaving those states President Jordan will address meetings in two of the larg est concentrating points in Texas. Then he will go to Arkansas, thence to Louis jana, then to Mississippi and Alabama. and will finish his tour in Georgia in the latter part of August.
 President Jordan said that he expected god crowds at the meetings He will be accompanied by General Organizer E. D. Smith of South Carolina, and he has the cooperation of the state presidents and the members of the executive committees of the association.
 Mir. Jordan said that it was planned to have the delegates to the fall conven- ton call on President Roosevelt and the secretary of state when they reached Washington. Present plans point to royal reception throughout the south to the visitors.