Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-11

1872, 600, and the value of cotton goods
including hosiery and knit good, and
of primary products of-cotton seed
was s915,O7O,0 600. In the frst-named
industries 278,5O5 wage-earners We're
employed, and in the second group
4747O1.
The value of merchandise exported
from the United States in the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1912, was $2,2O%,-
1922, 400. Of the total, raw cotton rep
resented $3.50, 849,271, manufacturers OF
cotton $50, 1851 and cottonseed ana
it's products S42,142,181, an aggregate
of 1858, 760,963, representing products
of the cotton plant, and 29,9 per cent
of the total value of all merchandise
exports from the country In the thirty
three years between 1880 and 1912
there were exported from the United
States merchandise to the value OF
$99, Isl ,S28,195. and of that total 3d.
6S5, 2S2,138, or PAT per cent, was the
value of Southern cotton exported
II +bo +bir+y+I,roa ,yaorc tho cOtton
crops of the South, including seed,
had an aggregate value of $16,452,000.-
900, the output of all the gold mines
of the world was worth 1854 Jos, 500,
and the output of all the silver mines
was worth 3,459, 909 ,642. The thirty
three cotton crops had value of 49,,
S94,4 400 greater than the thirty-three
years gold production in the world
and $5,357, 984,75S greater than the
combined gold and silver production
In the same period the value of ex-
ports of raw cotton from the South
reached the sum of $685., S54,574, or
$2,O51, 75S,974 greater than the value
of the worlds gold production in the
same time.
In no year since 1880 has the com
bined output of all the gold mines and
silver mines in the world equaled the
value of the South's cotton crop, with
its seed, and in only five of the thirty.
three years was the output of all the
gold mines in the world sufficient 10
pay for the.cotton exported from thu
United States.
The value of merchandise exports
from the United States in the thirty
three years was greater by $9,162, 4O2,-
945 than the value of imports to this
country, and that sum was 1923, 451 ,629
less than the value of the South's raw
cotton exported.
Southern cotton fields, now repre-
scented in 80 per cent of annual et
ort merchandise values are thus strik-
ingly shown to be an essentially i'm
portant factor, not only in the agricul-
ture of the United States, in the man
ufacturing industries and commerce #
the world, but in the basis of ex-
change.
Southern cotton mills alone are nov
consuming annually more cotton than
the South produced in 1868, more than
all the mills of the whole country
consumed as late as 1896, and more
than half the amount now consumed
annually by all the mills of the coun-
try In all the South, now embracing
sixteen States there were 1906 ac-
tive spindles in 1880, which used III,
777l77 pounds of cotton, the spindles
being GA per cent. of the total num-
Der of active ones in the United States
ard using 14.S per cent. of the cotton
used by all the mills in the country.
Last year the 11,S5S,600 active spin
dies in the South used 1,319,707,8 13
pounds of cotton, their number being
1873 per cent. of those in all the mills
of the country, and the cotton used
being more than 80 per cent. of the to-
tai quantity consumed. Contemporary
enusly the active loom equipment of
Southern mills increased from 14,754,
or &C per cent. of the total of the coun
try, to 252,279, or 355 per cent. of the
total, These equipment statistics sug-