Arizona republican., 1914-09-15

degrees passes rapidly and cotton is
weighed every 10 minutes until the
delivate balances no longer record a
reduction in weight. The differences
in weight of samples are now re-
corded, and in this way the French
spinner is becoming posted on what
cotton he should buy and pay for the
least amount of water. BY the re-
cords of this testing house and ex-
periments of spinners, the normal
amount of moisture in cotton is
placed at S1s; this is now accepted
as normal by practically all spinners
in Europe.
The record of this testing house
house at Havre gathers moisture
while in storage. and that cotton
from Cry districts-Texas for ex-
ample-usually contains from 8 to 5
Per cent less moisture than that from
Atlantic states where more moisture
| is absorbed because of atmospheric
conditions.
AS already stated, Egyptian cotton
! is moistened artificially and it is
natural and reasonable to expect that
Arizona cotton, grown in climate
even dryer than Texas, must con-
| tain very little moisture and Should
sell at an advantage over that of like
| quality coming from Egypt 1t is
| important that a test for moisture
should be NADER as soon as the gin
| ming season opens in the Valley. If
&c hot
| this great advantage in weight. it
will eventually find favor in the mar
kets to our benefit. A difference
| of 7 per cent is recorded in differ
ent cottOns; cotton brokers every
| where are fighting off the evil day
when this matter of moisture must
Pie made another question for arbi-
| tratlon; all concede it's importance
and realize that they must sooner or
later recognize this just demand of
| the spinners and make al lowances
for excessive moisture and pay pre-
miums for cotton deficient in mois-
| ture content
| Upon our return from the cont
ncnt and after making a careful
study of the whole situation with
Mr. Scofield and Mr. Taylor, | have
made arrangements to consign por-
ton of our cotton to c. Tattersall
OF Manchester. This is strong,
well established firm who handled
10000 bales of Egyptian cotton last
yea. This consignment plan will
ret the growers about the same in
cash advance as the McFadden ar
| rangement last year, and place our
cotton in a much broader market
This contract does not call for any
definite amount of cotton, but will
serve as an outlet for whatever il
may seem wise to ship when the
season opens
This will not in any way inter
fere with our arrangements for thu
| seasons business with Geo H. Nc
Fadden 6: Bros.
1t will be of interest to grower.
To say that we have visited the Nc.
radden connections in Liverpool
Bremen and Havre. the three grea
cotton markets of Europe. and hav,
been impressed with this wonderful
organization. 1t is generally con
ceded that they are the larges
handlers of cotton in the world anC
are respected everywhere for thei
business integrity and financia
standing. They are active and eff
ficient distributing facilities in al
parts of the world
Summarizing briefly the European
situation as regards Arizona Egyp
tan cotton it seems reasonable t.
assume that with the trial lots al
ready sold to several different mills
and the general advertising accom-
llshed by this trip, the markets o.
England are now in a preliminar,
way, fairly acquainted with our DO
duct. When the % Be shipped t.
Liverpool were placed on the marke
the statesmen at Zerega's remarked
that every man of the first hal
dozen prospective purchasers who
| locked at the samples recognized
them at once and knew the histor,
of Arizona Egyptian cotton; with /
smile he added: You gentlemen
must be doing some missionary worl
mere. Foo the present we mus
ship on the consignment plan unit
our reliability as shippers is estab
lished, as has been said before.
There are over $4,000 50O-lb. bale:
OF Egyptian cotton shipped to Eng.
land annually, and the present yielt
of the Valley ESTIMATED 10000 bales
would hardly be noticed if all ship
ped there, and in the cotton Worlt
this market may be compared will
the livestock markets of Chicago arc
Kansas City in America-there is al.
ways demand for a good article a
fair prices
The Importance of pure seed is i'm.
pressed upon by every hand and tn,
interest our Department of Agricul.
ture is taking in our behalf lends
confidence to the cotton trade gen.
orally. which one can only appre
ciate by actual contact in cotton cen.
tiers. Our Valley is especially fav.
Ored by their corporation. We
are indebted to banks and business
men of the Valley, and cotton con-
Germs in the east with whom we have
had business relations, for letters o.
introduction which have been OF
great assistance.
AS to the status of marketing con-
ditions for Arizona Egyptian cotton
in America this season the work OF
introducing this cotton last spring
the different mills in New England
has resulted in opening more or less
active market for our cotton. AT
least active as compared with the