The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-29

wider understanding of the problems that beset the way. To discuss these problems the spinners' Internationaf Union win meet in Boston on Septem- Der 10, and at the same time and place the National Mule Spinners will meet On September 2s and 30s the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers will hold its efghty-fifth annual meet ing at Saratoga. and on October 20 the sUnited Textile Workers of America will meet at Cohoes, N. Y. With Amer lea growing three-fourths of the world's cotton. supply. and even then with the prospect of the demand ex- ceeding the supply manufacturers and textile workers have many plans to deivse. whereby 50 many spindles may not again stand idle as they have dur ing August of this year, nor call for the large curtailment Of cotton goods that was necessary In the Carolfnas Measured by the number of spindles, nearly quarter of million ali told. the United States ranks second in cot- ton manufacture among the worlds workers. In the manufacture of cot ton goods approximately 1900 estab- lfshments are devoted to this industry, employing 316.e00 workers at q total wage of $s70eo,0o0. Capitalized at ss14 900 900 these establishnents turn out an annual product of about yfbos-s 800, 900 worth of goods.
 Of the cotton manufacturing estab- Iishments North Carolina has 2b1. Mas- sachusetts 210; South Carolina III, Georgia 1ss. Pennsylvania 124. New
 York il2. Of these nearly quarter nil- lion spindles one-third are in the south ern states, a most marked increase having been there during the recent year, despite the fact that mills were closed In many sections for awhile tnis summer. South Carolina. for example. has an increase of J4e,22o spindies and 2,567 looms aggregating sss,eVo.ovv new capital, and giving employment 70
 i.sss more operatives. ,as. Ine ne,t olop ,n .se mills for last years manufacturins unrnoses was 5.l9B,ss4 bales. averaging Roo hounds each, or 2.b97,ss2.0Oof pounds in all. The cloth mills used over Tour
 nfths of this,, and the balance " distributed among the yarn splnnsrs: hosiery mills, wooien ana Woasseu
 aIIowing an average of four yards of goods to every pound Of coTon there were 7,77f,ss4.0oo yards of goous made last year. Were all tnls in one continuous piece it would pc 2ts s,, fs,ctant length to wrap around the entire earth ITS times and neariy around again. If cloth were slretcn-
 sd hetwAen the earth and the moon IL
 wonId measure the distance nineteen times, and leave a large sizeo rem nant for the bargain counter, ,ns no weight of the cotton goods varies wien tbs fabric. all exported goods usually Averaging 2.ss yards to the pound. Tbe number of S00-pound bales pros
 dnced by the world last year was
 slightly overi 16,500,O00, and or tnesc inc United States furnished nearly ll,- oO0, ,0eo It is believed py those VIZ
 have studied the situation and wnc know the possibilities of land in the sa,,th that 1s,0O0,o0o bales ought 70 ro,,a Iron, that section. As yet the
 ,eso,,rces of the South in this particu- lar direction have not been fully prov ed. Government experts under D. Knapu. have given practical demon
 r4na t,r,s m Texas. Mississippi Louis isna and Alabama. and the result nag ajready are been measured in better ana Tt is the picking of the cotton that
 takes so much time for the farmer
 While one man with the proper ..
 takes four men picking an average
 of 100 pounds of cotton day 70 mar
 vesf the crop. Last years crop Te kouired for its harvesting the unIsed
 efforts of one and nsih hliI,On Ir,rrpve- p ments in the manner of<handiing ana etorine cotton have arisen with sn awakened intelligence among tho farmers Within the past year cotton warehouses to the number of oVV naVs been built by the Farmers Education@i and Cooperative Union or America through the cotton belt or the souaa; nan inc cost of each being from $iV,oOV to s50. 900. Harvie Jordan, president of the Cotton Growers Association, IS working for better compressing Tn cot ion bales. All these will initiate to- ward e larger crop,Sand better grace of cotton.
 with three-fourths of the worlds supply of cotton raised in this country tha increase in spindles in the United states has been only 6,0eo,ooo In the mast eight years, while in the past three years Great Britain has shown an increase of S.000,000. And in the United States there is an apparently
 endless supply of iron for making factory machinery and coal or wates
 for the motive power.
 Deaptte the enormous amount or cot- ton goocss made in this country, we imported last year something like $6S,- 900 900 worth of manufactured cotton stuffs. over half of which was laces and emb roideries. over xll'0oO,OOO worth coming from England. Di A. Tompkins, a prominent manufacturer of North Carolina, recently wrote an argument in favor of greater ana more varied manufacture of cotton Tn the South. He showed the profits that would lie in such advancemfnt. Tak- ing an average North Carolina cotton
 crop of 5O0.000 bales. MT. Tompkins
 figured out what the profits would be
 on tt when manufactured into differ ent grades of cloth. This half million
 cotton bales, valued conservatively at
 six cents per pound, made Into duck
 of the cheapest quality and sold at 3-4 cents a yard or 14c pound would
 bring in 335, 100000. If made into
 Swiss embroidery and sold at $2o
 a uaand-the highest value for manu-
 factured cotton goods-the income would be S5,000, ,00O. .00o,s more than
 enough to buy all the cotton and wool
 en mills in the world. And while
 neither he nor any one else would ad-
 yochte the making of all North Caro-
 lina's cotton output into either duck
 or Swiss embroidery, 1t shows what
 opportunities await the manufacturers.
 The industry has built and supports
 hundreds of towns whose business and whose population. depend entirely on
 the mills and factories. In Lowell.
 Mass, for example. there are S00.000 spindles, and 26,000 looms with a wide variety of goods as the output of the establishments. The factories
 of this city consume 100,o0o,o0o pounds of cotton per year, requiring 4.000 freight cars to deliver the raw cotton.
 Averaging four yards to the pound Lowell9 ships abopt 400,0oO.O0o yards annually. The goods goes out in pack ages of aal sizes, from a small one that a travelling man could tuck under his arm. to 6 large houSelike box whose only restriction in size Is that
 1t must be in proportion to the width