The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-30
ELLIS BANNER COUNTY
Sac Takes Hr Place in fhs tead villa
ist. ISL Bales OF toi'en.

- haa boan recognized as tbe efea,
f cotton producing county ia fAr
@agId in 1895 she ytcldcJ fhls Boo
us to Williamson county ana even
SLOWED ili8 county lb edmc iu faf
second p1are. but ga 1905 she ngt
nnly rrEalaga her lost houors bat
broke her uau record as q cotton
producing eouuty The final report
an the number Of bales If cotton
aiuned throughout the belt in 1906
has been issued by the government
iu bulletiu form. and il shows the
crop Of Ellis county 10 be t54,I51
commercial bales This number in
cjudes 3.T03 round bales The total
number is equivalent 10 f5S.24N
bales Of 500 pounds each At an q
eraee price Of $50 per bale the crop
( Welded to the farmers OF the county
the neat little sum Of s7,2o7 $50
/ The amount derived from all tne
Iproducta of cotton seed is estimated
at $1,000, 600. The crop OF 1906
was the greatest ever produced in
/ Ellis county and exceeded the crop
1 of 1900 by more than $1,000 bales
Ellis county has produced in the past
six years total OF 733,322 bales
In the crop of 1906 Hill county
was second with total of l53,7S4
bales, while Williamson county took
third place with crop Of l27,696
bales.
According to the governments
bulletin the crop for 1906 was 49,
3o5.265 bales This is equivalent 10
l13,595,i9S bales of 500 pounds
each
According to the returns Of gin
ners and delinters, the average pro-
duction of cotton in the United
States for the last five years is H.
/ 790.55S bales, or 1904, ,94O bales
less than the crop OF 1906, Of the
total production in 1906, the terri
tory west of the Mississippi river
contributed 7,233,210 bales, or o5.2
per cent, while the states east con-
! tributed 6,36z,2SS bales, or 46.o per
cent. which compares with 44-S
and $50 per cent for the combined
| production of these sections for the
four years prior to 1906 The pro-
duction of Texas, Oklahoma ano
Indian Territory in 1906 amounted
to 2oO.199 bales. or 3S.2 per cent
of the total for the country, compar-
ed with 80. 5 per cent in 1905, gain
of II per cent. The productloh ol
i91S.375 bales in Oklahoma and IN
dian Territory gives the new state
respectable rank among the cotton
producing states, it being larger
than the combined production OF
| North Carolina and Tennessee, anu
Ionlv 45.415 bales less than that Oh
| Arkansas. In 1899 the combined
production of Oklahoma and Indian
Territorv was 217,990 bales, the
crop having increased more tnah
four-fold in the eight years. cotton
| ginning is now reported from every
| comfy in Oklahoma except t"o'
Grant and Kay, and from every re-
cording district in Indian Terrltor!
except 2 and 3. The 1906 crop lor
Texas exceeds all previous years,
the state having contributed AZ j.
1924 bales. or 31.5 per cent OF the
country's production. the next la'
oest contributor is Georgia, with l.
I 626.33O bales, or II per cent; iol-
lowed by Mississippi with l,ooS'oo'
bales. or lis per cent, ana Alaoa-
ma with l,2S4.42l bales, or ga per
cent. The combined producuoh Vi
these four states is S,I62, 100 pales'
or 64.4 per cent of the total ior tue
countrv The states of Florida, Geor-
qia. North Carolina, South Carolina
and Virginia each produced less cot
ton in 1906 than in 1908, the COM
hined loss amounting to 33N,t62
bales.
The Texas crop in 1899, amount
ing to 2.640.l07 bales, was reporter
from f6S counties. that OF lsoe was
returned from 1879 counties. The eN-
tension of cotton growing In Western
Texas during the last eight years Il
remarkable. In that portion OF tue
istate lying west of "a straight ilhe
connecting the western border o'
flardemau county ON the north WIN
that Of pimmitt ON the south. mere
were only T.S3t bales reported ~
itNag while 1860 have been re-
turned for see Much of ihis terri
itorv ia 1893 was not believed 20 De
suitable fof srowtus eoit"" N"'A''A'
'uf inefficient rainfall. but as th" eoi
was prcpstcd for agriculture ih'
imtnfaU Increased with ftr fsrnt
.rbat thy Iarev rau,bes afs disappear
lue a condition as rutoafWNiuH ''
.thr consumer of cotluu as Be- y. dis
.samfoffinr FEB tts tftfiemsH.
IA rh. increase Boa fhv Tcsas rsv'
s Since &ane. when tne asa-fe ni it'
. HuH wsgNl Wrfp aue ettoHH
sru sraur8uE hueinE at ti d'~
|. ilhe rssantg.fnluyse of fhr .uieiiiseu
q tuHau efovcU sa.ata hF an Aef
d laua efuslvmt national department o
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