Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-09-30
USE COTTON IsTEAD OF JUTE.
FOLLOWING Plan Will Consume Over
100000 Bales of Cotton.
(htlanta Constitution, 21st.)


Following a careful investigation
into the advisability Of cotton in
place Of jute in the manufacture of
cotton bagging and bags Of all kinds,
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Cotton Consuming Association
has issued formal statement urging
all users of jute bags to place their
order in future for cotton bags.
thereby insuring the consumption of
100000 bales of cotton for pur-
poses for which cotton has not before
been used.
The statement is as follows:
I'VE, the executive committee of
the National Cotton Consuming AS
sociation, realizing that every pound
OF cotton material for baling cotton,
by the people Of the United States
Will be to the benefit of our nation,
do most heartily recommend the use
or cotto nmaterial for baling cotton,
for sacking cotton seed meal cotton
seed hullS, corn, oats, wheat, peas,
chicken feed, prepared horse or cat
tie feed, in fact, for the sacking of
all kinds of grain where heretofore
jute material has been used, also q
large number Of other goods not
enumerated.
I'VE further recommend to the
consumers Of the United States to re-
quest of their dealers to make pur-
chases OF all goods, where possible,
TO be packed in material manufac-
tured from cotton; also, we urge
upon the manufacturers, wholesale
and retail dealers, to pack all Of their
goods, so far as practical, in material
manufactured from cotton.
We suggest to the packers Of
goods, who have heretofore utilized
Jute material, to get in touch with
the manufacturers Of such cotton
goods as they can use in place Of jute
material at once, also, in making
their purchases, to purchase such
weight and quality Of cotton goods
as will be satisfactory to themselves
and to the consumers, having in view
the permanency and the popularizing
of the use of cotton goods as a sub
stitute of foreign jute material"
Will Usc Cotton.
Reports received by T. w. Martin,
the chairman Of the executive COM
mittee, indicate that already steps
have been taken by manufacturers
and shippers ov~f the country look
ing to the substitution of cotton for
jute.
Colorado Company Aids.
An idea of the cordial reception
which the efforts Of the new organi-
zation has met in every part of the
country is evidenced by letter re-
ceived by the executive committee
Saturday from the Fort Collins and
Elevator Company, Fort Collins, Col
orado, in which they comment as fol-
lows:
1--WE are glad to say that we are
thoroughly in harmony with this
movement aud several DAYS ago or
.dS&ed several thousand cotton sacks
fTTo be used i'll packing our bran.
Heretofore We have been using the
regular jute bag. We would like 10
go on record in the Atlanta exchange
as being in hearty sympathy with
this movement"
The w. S. Duncan Company, At
lanta, representatives Of the M. G..
Peters Mill Company, of Omaha, Ne
braska, one Of the biggest manufac-
turing concerns in the entire coun-
try, is in receipt of a letter from that
company, inclosing a copy of a cir
cular letter and pamphlet being sent
to their customers all over the South
In their letter the Peters Com
pany declares it's intention Of using
its strongest influence to bear IN the
North, as we'll as in the South, to
bring about the complete substitu-
ton of cotton for jute in the manu-
facture Of bags and bagging Of all
kinds for the shipping Of products of
every description. The company, If
1T can secure a sufficient number Of
bags Of the class it requires, will
alone consume 300 bales Of cotton.
New Market for Cotton.
The pamphlet which is being sent
out by this company is headed: "a
New Market for Cotton; Cotton VS..
Burlap-The North Joins the South
to Make a Market for the Cotton
Crop" The attractively printed
booklet presents in comprehensive
form the benefits to be derived from
the use Of cotton instead of jute in
this connection, and winds up with
the plea to manufacturers and ship
pers and to the consumer to "help
the cotton planter and all the South
by insisting your supplies be packed
in cotton bags"