The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-19
Brings Big MONEY

Brings Big MONEY
WIDE INFLUENCE OF OUR GREAT
COTTON CROP.
Its Value and Meaning to the Pros
perity of This County as Compar-
ed With Other Crops.
"Cotton: The Southern Woof in
the Warp Of American Agriculture,
Manufacturing and Commerce, " is the
striking title of one of the articles
in ''The South: The Nations Greatest
Asset" to be issued March 27 by
The Manufactures Record. The ar
ticle is significant in rejecting the in
fuence of cotton not only in this
country, but in the world. In this
comprehensive report on cotton there
are many facts of worldwide inter
est, a few of which may be mentioned
here in advanced.
Produced upon 35,000,000 acres,
or l1,9 per cent of the 294,343,000
acres devoted to twelve leading crops
of the country in 1912, the cottor
crop, including it's seed, in that year
had a value of S1,000,000,000, equal
to 204 per cent of the aggregate
value, 700, of those crops.
Upon something more than one-eight
of the land devoted to those crops in
the whole country, the South produc-
ed one crop, cotton, having value
more than one-ffth of the aggregate
| value of the twelve crops.
In the last census year, 1909, the
value of all factory products in the
United States was s20,672,052,000.
| In that year the value Of the outputs
of blast furnaces and iron and steel
works and rolling mills was s1,377,-
$4,000, and the value of cotton
goods, including hosiery and knit
goods, and of primary products Of
cotton seed, was s915,070,000. In the
frst-named industries 27S,505 wage
earners were employed, and in the
second group 474,701.
The value of merchandise export
ed from the United States in the fis-
cal year ended June 30th, 1912, was
! s2,2G4,322,409. OF the total, raw cot
ton represented 1855, ,S49,271, manu-
features of cotton s50,769,511 and
cotton seed and its products s42, ,142,-
ISL, and aggregate of s65S,760,963,
representing products of the cotton
plant, and 29.9 per cent of the total
value of all merchandise exports from
the country. !. the thirty-three
years between 1880 and 1912 there
was exported from the United States
merchandise to the value of S39, ISL
S2S,195, and of that total $685.
282,13S, or FAT per cent, was the
value of Southern cotton exported.
Southern cotton fields, now repre-
sented in 80 per cent. Of annual ex-
port merchandise values are thus
strikingly shown to be an essentially
important factor not only in the ag-
ricalture of the United States, in the
manufacturing industries and COM
merce of the world, but in the basis
Of exchange.
Southern cotton mills alone are
now 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 country. In AN the South, now
embracing sixteen states, there were
l6S7,066 active spindles in 1880,
which used 111,777,177 pounds OF
cotton, the spindles being GA per cent
of the total number of active ones in
the United States and using 14.S per
cent of the cotton used by all the
mills in the country.
Last year the 11,85S,600 active
spindles in the South used 19,707,-
S13 pounds of cotton, their number
being 3SS per cent of those in all
the mills of the country, and the cot
ton consumed. Contemporaneously
the active loom equipment Of South
ern mills increased from 14,754, OF
6.6 per cent. of the total of the coun-
try, to 252,27s, or 35.5 per cent OF
the total. These equipment statistics
suggest not only the multiplicity, but
also the multiformity of the South's
textile, activities today, producing a
hundred different lines of goods,
spun, woven and knit.
These facts clearly mark out the
task of the South in this particular
It is, of its own initiative, or in CO.
operation with capital from other
parts, to take advantage of it's unsur'
passed opportunities, to the end that
by the time the world shall be call
ing for an annual world crop of 49,
100000 bales the South will be rails
ing30, 100000 Of them, and instead
of sending 65 per cent of its crop to
other parts of the world for manufac-
turing, will be consuming that much
at home in making goods for the
markets Of the world.
CHANGING Dress Fashions.
Woman's fashion in dress is al