The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-08
TESTERS REPORT
 ON COTTON CROP Cotton Expert Says Consump- ton Increased Greatly NEW MILLS BEING BUILT Increase of Consumption in the South Is Remarkable and With New
 SpindIes the Mills Will Use
 Still More.

New Orleans, La., September 7.-Sup- nlementing his report on the cotton crop for 1eos-O9, as issued on August 31 Sec retary Hester, of the New Orleans cot- ton exchange, today made a detailed re- port of the crops of the different states in thousands of bales, as follows:
 Alabama. 1928. against Ill last year.
 Arkansas. 1O52 against 7s7.
 Florida, 75, against GO.
 Georgia, 2118, against 1864.
 Louisiana, 4S5, against 67S
 Mississippi, 1673, against 1496.
 North Carolina, TAT, against 6S9
 South Carolina, 129S, against 1926
 Tennessee, 426, against 335
 Texas. 3S19, against 222l.
 Oklahoma, 704, against $50.
 Total crop, 13.S25. against 1l,o72 last year.
 He puts the spindles in the south at Il. .2o5, ,7S7. including old, idle and not com- plete, against 10,661, 1908 last year, an in- crease of 594. 479.
 Referring to the consumption by Amer ican mills MT. Hester says that north and south they have had season of unparalleled activity. In no past year. he states, have they consumed so much cotton, and phenomenal the extent of the business has been, it has not reached the limit of their capacity.
 The money value of the past commer- cial crop he states. Is in round figures, s6S3, ,794,O0O, showing that while the num- Der of bales marketed was 2,243,0O0 bales more than last year, the increase in money received was but s11, ,509,0 900, equiva- lent to s5.11 per bale for the excess, and yet MT. Hester contended that consld- ering all the circumstances If ever a crop was sold at good sound price, IL was the one under reNiew,
 In the south MT. Hester makes the con sumption s66, ,596 more than last year and 12O765 over the year before. Twenty-one new mills are building in the southern states and including additions to old es- establishments 10000 new looms and oll, zsa new spindles are under way. The in- crease in the number of mills over last year has been eight, making to'ai oi S41.
 The years consumption has been divided as follows ,. Alabama, total, 25l,S71 increase, 46,26l. Arkansas. total. 6OSS; increase, 219O Geor- gia. total, 5531lS; increase, 54751; Ken lucky. total, 26,29O; increase. 1894 Louis jana, total. 17,244; increase, 333l. Missis : sippi total S.691 increase. 3o2s. Missouri, total 14,S26; increase, CAB. North Caro-
 
 Carolina total, 7Oo,s52; increase. 75,S06. Tennessee, total. 6s,211; increase. s1o4. Texas, total, 42,456; increase, s67e. OK lahoma, total 256S; increase, so4. Vir- ginia, total 77,912; increase, 1882. Total, 2,559S73 366, 596.
 In conclusion MT. Hester says the facts concerning this remarkable year in cot ton consumption speak for themselves, but 1t is safe to say that had they been estimates instead of plain unvarnished truths even extremists would have been Justified in chasing them as exaggera- tions.
 In the south he says:
 We have brushed 26O0,000 bales closely during the past year and this close on the heels of the panic with 215 out of total of 7S6 active mills from one to two months late in getting under headway Most of the new spindles will be in working or der before the coming years close and with these on the basis of the 1904-05 con- sumption per spindle the capacity of the southern mills will be something like 2SO0, 900 to 2,900,000 bales"