The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-17
COTTON EXPORTS
 BREAK RECORDS Aggregate s5Oo,OOO,OOo for
 the Year CONSUMPTION GROWS FAST All Cotton Consuming Countries In- crease Takings From by $1,ooo,- ooo-4oo,o ,ooo, ,ooo Increase in
 Fifty Years.

Washington, June 16.-(Special. )-Cotton exports from the United States will az gregate nearly $5OO,00O,OOO in the fiscal year which ends with the present month. The total for the eleven months ending with May, as shown by figures just an- nounced by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, is $47O, 100000, and as the May exports ag gregate about S2O, 900 in value, it seems to justify the statement that the total for the fiscal year 1907 will fall but slightly below the $500, ,O00,00O line. This total of approximately 00.000000 as the value of raw cotton exported from the country is far in excess of that of any preceding year In the history of the cot ton export trade. The largest total value of cotton exported in any year prior to that now about to end was that of 1906, when the total was $401, ,000 900, the next highest being that of 1905, $3S0, ,000, 900; in 19v4, $371 OOO,OO in 1903, 60O0,O00, and in 1s01, $314,00000O, prior to which time the value Of cotton exported had never touch ed the S300, GOO line. Prior to 1850 cot ton exports never reached as much as $100 100000 in value annually and prior to 1880 had never touched the $200 000, 900 mark, and 1t was not until 1901 that they crossed the $500, 100000 line. In 1906 their value for the first time crossed the s400 O00,O0O line. and in 1907 will nearly reach the $500, ,O0O, coo mark.
 Increased Consumption.
 Meantime, with all of this increase in exportat ton, the share of the cotton crop of the United States which is consumed at home is steadily increasing. The fig ures of the bureau of statistics show that in 1876 29 per cent of the cotton crop of the Ifnitpd States taken hW nestle mills; in 1886, 8 per cent; in 1896, 35 per cent, and In 1906 Il per cent. The increase In the value of cotton ex- ported in the fiscal year about to end will be nearly s9O, 900 over that of the immediately preceding year. a growth due entirely to an increase in the quanti- ty exported the average value per pound of cotton exported in the eleven months for which statistics are available having been 10.62 cents, or slightly less than that for the corresponding period of the pre- ceding year, which averaged 1104 cents per pound; though even this average val uation of 10.62 cents per pound for 190E is high when compared with that of a dec ade ago, when the average export price ot cotton was but "A cents per pound for the fiscal year 1S97 59 cents for the fiscal year 1898, and 54 cents for the fiscal year 1899, this being the lowest annual average in long term of years, while the highest annual average was that of the fiscal year 1904 12 cents per pound.
 Total Product.
 Adding to the value of raw cotton ex- ported that of other cotton products whether manufactures from the fiber or from the seeds, the total cotton product exported during the year will approx innate s550, 900 value, that of cloths and other manufactures of this character be- ing likely to aggregate about $33, ,000 cotton seed oil about$17 .000 GOO. cotton seed oi cake about s17,0o0000, and cottolene, lardine, and other articles of this class. produced chiefly from cotton seed oil. approximately s5,000,000.
 This total raw cotton exported, aggre- gating as 1t does nearly 300 million dollars in the present year, is far in excess of any other sigle article or group of arti- cles Breadstuffs, meats, and manufac- lures of iron and steel, while showing large totals, fall in each case materially below cotton in the value of their re- spective exports Meat and dairy pro- ducts for the full fiscal year will show exports aggregating approximately 200 million dollars: breadstuffs approximately 1I5 millions; manufactures of iron and steel, about 1855 millions; copper, nearly 100 millions; wood and manufactures thereof, over 75 millions: and leather, ana manufactures thereof, about 45 mill lions.
 Demand Grows.
 All the great cotton-consumng countries of the world have, in the last year, in- creased their drafts upon the United States for raw cotton. In the ten months for which detailed figures are available the quantity sent to the United Kingdom has grown from 1902 millions pounds last year to 1869 millions: to Germany, from 80 mllin pounds to 1103 millions; to France, from S72 millions to 4S5 millions; to Italy, from 216 millions to 263 millions; to Spain, from 101 millions to IF millions; to Japan from 6S millions to 11s millions; to Belgium. from 46 millions to Il millions; and to Canada, from 64 millions to 70 mil lions of pounds. The raw cotton ex- ported to Japan from the United States in the fiscal year will aggregate approx imately 150 million pounds valued at ap- proximately 15 million dollars. which will, however, be slightly below the figures of 1905, ih which year the total quantity of cottnu sAnt to 1anan waa 1sa rniuia-