The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
S0NE COTTON STATISTICS
-opcTA FOURTH STATE IN UN-
ION IN CONSUMPTION.
,,,ssacbusetts Leads in Number of
spiudles, and South and North
Carolina Come Next.

Carolina Come Next.
+, the consumption of cotton IN
7-nited States, according TO the
sls 4,rthcoming Census Bulletin ll0
lo- .La supply and distribution OF
Oh -, for the year ending August
= COZ I'a70 the state of Massachusetts
~, IL, FIRST. North Carolina second,
Ta ran Carolina third, Georgia fourth,
SOU Eampshire fifth, Alabama sixth
5 Rhode Island seventh.
anSNf 4ha three most important cot
assuming states North Carolina
On loss of 10 per cent in the
' Il,U,-,,1,Dtion of cotton in the year
,o40 as compared with 1909, South
ddoyLoi;Ta a loss of 10 per cent and
4 C,1oal.gz.,cbusetts a loss of Z per cent.
& nSo,,oia which ranks fourth in con-
oS,1+fon shows a loss of 8 per cent.
SUE T[o statistics of spindles in the
8 -.-o,.r relate to the yea ending Au-
gTIs+ II. except those for 1917, whlch
5ova been compiled from returns OF
n'anufacturers for the census OF
1q09 and relate, as rule, to De-
lon,hor 81. 1909. The number
S vTl,, for 1910 is 29,18S,94 and
ovcaads the number for 1909 by
e. S42 or only 2 per cent. The
oar,naratively small number OF
o0indles added since 1907 is attrib-
,,tab7a in part to the unsatisfactory
ooT5itfon of the cotton manufacture
NO ministry, which began with the
FTanacfal depression of that year
I'D eliminated in the more acute
aandi+ion brought about by the
sbor+age in the supply of cotton the
past season.
Massachusetts, First in Rank.
Massachusetts, exceeds other states
=, Dumber of cotton spindles, having
a 525 $40, or "a per cent of the to-
+o1 for the country South Carolina
ranks second with 3,793, 1897, or 10
nor cent. and North Carolina third,
With 3124,456, or II per cent.
Rhode Island has fourth place,
Georgia fifth, New Hampshire sixth,
Connecticut seventh, New York
oighrh. and Maine ninth. No other
state reports as many as million
The marked development since
1880 of the cotton manufacturing
industry in the cotton growing states
i clearly seen when the figures for
cotton consumption for 1909 are
considered. since that year was
more prosperous one for the indus
+rv than 1910. During the nine
Years ending with 1909 the con-
sumption in these states increased
6S per cent, while in the New Eng
land states it increased only II per
cent and in all the other states 23
per cent. The consumption of cot
ton for the year ending August 81,
1903 in the cotton growing states
amounted to 40 per cent of the total
for the country, compared with Al
per cent for the New England states
and 10 per cent for all other states
For the year ending August 81,
1910, the proportion for the cotton
growing states was 4S per cent, for
the New England states AZ per cent,
and for all other states 10 per cent.
During the past year the increase in
the number of spindles in the cot
ton growing states has been SO per
cent. compared with p per cent
from 1908 to 1909. The increase in
the New England states from 1909
to 1910 was 3.3 per cent, compared
with II per cent 1908 to 1909.
A number of mills in the United
States manufacture very valuable
brands of export sheetings, which
will be in demand in the export mar
ket so long as their quality is main
tanned. Although the exports from
this country to China and Manchuria
are falling off those to our posses
sions in the east are Increasing on
account Of a favorable tariff and
those to the Latin-American coun-
tries on account of closer CONNER
cial relations.