Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-14

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Thess may not BE- an oversupply Of
cotton after Ill.
An the cotton that IL grown in the
United States this year will likely be
needed by the European Nations II
W can only overcome the disturbed
GAipping conditions and get II to
them.
The Nations at war are literally
burning up the cc.ton from the
American cotton L-lds. They are
manufacturing gun cotton. powder
and other explosives from cotton and
ere burning It in hurting shells. tor
podoss and other engines Of destruc-
slon 1t each other.
The war 10 increasing the consump'
don Of cotton and there will no doubt
b . market for Il Il We can only
overcous the blockade and get II to
~ places where Il 10. needed.
Af1sr al. II may be that the very
cause which We feared would deprive
~ Of . market for our cotton alto
gs(her viii create the greatest de-
uand for cotton the world has ever
known.
Some statistician has gathered all
he available data on the cotton sit
untion. upon which the Galveston
Novs comments a. follows:
"A correspondent Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce has compiled
~ that paper the statistics Of cotton
Things BY the principal countries OF
uurope between August I Of last year
an1 June Of this year. and set on
against these figures the figures Of
their normal min requirements. The
purpose was TO show how these sew.
eral countries stand with respect TO
their need Of cotton. II shows that
England. during the interval stated.
bought s5s.s42 bales In excess Of its
normal requirements: Italy. b70.20s
bales: Spain. 1882; Holland. 4i5..
$50; Denmark. 14.7s7; Sweden. s7s.-
1s7. and Norway. 4s.si6. These sew.
en- countries. In other words, bought
2,so5.753 bales in excess Of their nor
nal mill requirements. The coun.
tries which bought less than their
normal mill requirements are; Ger.
many. s0s.oss bales; France. 1850;
Portugal. 1880: Russia. 262.7l1;
Belgium 1886: Switzerland. ls.o3o.
and Austria. 522.2so. The total Of
these deficiencies 10 1.s5s.sss bales.
% that Europe as . whole bought
Ss2.117 bales in excess Of liz normal
requirements. In fine. the United
States exported l.i2s.iso bales in ex.
cess Of the normal requirements q
foreign mills.
Although these figures indicate on
their face that Germany and Austria
got less than enough for their normal
min requirements by something like
100000 bales. the fact that the three
adjacent countries. Italy. Holland and
Sweden. took 1851 $50 bales in excess
Of their normal requirements sug-
gests that Germany and Austria got
all the cotton they needed. Much Of
the cotton shipped TO those countries
was evidently reshipped to Germany
and Austria. These figures give but
an uncertain clew. II any. as to what
arN the future needs Of these coun'
tries. To know that we should have
10 know whether consumption has
been above or below normal require
ments, and by how much: and that
knowledge 10 not obtainable. Mil
statistics would not supply the infor
nation. even II we could get the mill
statistics for Germany and Austria
for much cotton Is being used for the
making OF explosives. The Londor
Daily Mail declares that II takes 4ot
pounds Of cotton. or nearby an Nv
erage bale. TO make the powder fol
one shot from one Of the Queen Eliza
bslh's fifteen-inch guns or from one
Of the German sevenseen-inch howit
GERS" II says. further. that Iot
pounds Of cotton provide anmuni
ton for 400 shots from q field gun OF
5000 rounds from q rife" and !
Odds that the lowest calculation
places the quantity Of cotton dali,
fred BY Germany and Austria at 200
tons" Germany and Austria are moi
doing all the shooting: France. Great
Britain and Russia are wasting good
American cotton quite as prodigious
y ~ they. II would not be extrava
CANT TO say that. among them. they
are burning up not fewer than 1000
bales day. Hence the fact that
Europe has. In ten months, bought