The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-02
SUPPLY Of COTTON
PAST YEAR WAS NEAR EIGHTEEN
MILLION BALES
GIVEN BY TIE CENSUS

GIVEN BY TIE CENSUS
Some Interesting Figures Issued by
the United States Government In
Reference to the Supply and Dis
tribution OF Cotton for the Yeer
Ending Last August.
A dispatch from washington says
the feature of the census bureaus
report. issued Thursday on the sup
ply and distribution OF cotton toc
the cotton year 1912, which ended
August 81, was the indication OF
the South's growth in the cotton
spinning industry.
The amount of cotton used there
was for the first time in the history
Of the industry greater than that
used in all other states In any one
yea1 and the number Of active spin
dies operated increased almost half
a million over the number operated
last year.
The cotton growing states used O.
1852 bales against 2,655,049
bales in all others. The number Of
active spindles was 11,585,339 COM
pared with 11,0S4,623 In 1911.
The total supply OF cotton for tne
cotton year 1912 amounted to the
unprecedented total Of II 672,294
bales, Of which 1,276,o31 had been
held over from the previous year and
22,276 bales imported. This total
supply exceeded last year BY $685.
S71 bales.
OF the total supply 5,637,671 bales
were used in this county, quantity
greater than ever before and 10,6Sl.-
1853 bales, or more than 100000 In
excess Of previous records, were sent
aboard.
The number OF spindles in other
than cotton growing states increased
almost 800 900 to 1s,726,S91.
Cotton Supply and Demand.
The supply and distribution OF cot
tor in the United States, In running
bales, for the cotton year Of 1912
which ended August 81, 1912, with
comparisons for previous years, as
announced in the annual report OF
the Census Bureau, was:
The total supply Of cotton for the
| cotton year 1912 was 17,673,29A
bales, compared with 13,37S,42S
bales in 1911 and 12,1sS,021 bales In
1910.
OF this quantity the ginnings dur
ing the year amounted to 16,o67,ss7
bales compared with 12,3S4,243
ba,es in 1911 and 10,350,s7S bales
in 1910; the stocks held at the be-
ginning Of the year were 1,37o,031
bales compared with 1,040, 4o4 bales
in 1911 and 1,4S3,5S5 bales in 1910.
The net imports amounted to
229,276 bales, compared with 2S1,-
191 bales in 1911 and 151,395 bales
i in 1910.
The total distribution OF the above
supply was as follows:
The amount cf cotton consumed in
the United States during the year
was 5,367,671 bales compared with
7o4,eTS bales il 1911 and 4,79S,-
e53 bales In 1910.
Of this amount the quantity con-
sumed in cotton-growing states Was
1.712,622 bales, compared with e.
1878, 487 bales in 1911 and 2,292,333
bales in 1910 and the quantity con-
sumed in all other states was 1885,
o49 bales, compared with 2,376,491
bales in 1911 and 2,506. $40 bales m
1910.
The exports Of cotton during the
year amounted to 10,6S1,75S bales.
| compared with 7,7s1,414 bales In
ISL and e,33s,o2S bales IN 1910.
Stocks Of cotton on hand on Au-
gust 81 amounted to 1,623,S65 bales,
compared with 1,375,031 oaIes II
|1s11 and 1 04o,040 In 1910.
OF the stocks or hand malufactur-
ers in cotton-Towing states neid
241,704 bales, compared With 17I,-
114 bales in 1911 and 121,34o raies
in 1910 and manufacturers IN al
other states held 629,589 bales, COM
pared with 441,077 bales IN 1911 and
41t,SS3 bales in 1910.
Independent warehouses In cotton
growing states on August 81 neio
1855 bales, compared with s4s'-
o72 bales in 1911 and 1851 bales
in 1910 and Independent warehouses;
in all other states held 10S,s25 bales,
compared with 83,76s bales in 1911
| and 15o,937 bales in 1910.
Cotton held on August 81 at otner
n1aces is estimated at 198,O92 bales,
con,nared with 100000 bales in 1911
and 100000 bales In 1910 %.
The number Of active cotton spin
dies in the United States was 3O,132,
/ 73o. compared with 1882 597 Spin
dies in 1911 and 1886, GS2 spindles
in 1910.
Of this number those operated m
cotton growing states during the year
was 11,5S5,s39 spindles, compared
with 11,0S4,623 spindles operated In
those states in 1911 and 10 4S4,11z
spiudles in 1910; and those operated
in all other states were 18,726,891
spindles, compared with 1S, 437,974
sp;ndles operated in those states IN
1911 and 17,772,750 spindles in
1911. -..
These statistics are in running
bales, including linters, except for
foreign cotton which has been re-
duced to equivalent 50G-pound bales:
The statistics of cotton consumed
sp:ndles, and stocks held at mills ana
in warehouses shown in this report
were collected by canvassers OF tne
mills and of the warehouses, out the
stocks in 1912 shown under the clas-
sifa ction ELSEWHERE" were arrived
Al bv deduction, this quantity being
the difference between the total sup
NV and the sum Of the quantities e1-
1orted consumed, and that held by
manufacturers and warehouses.