Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-05
HOPE FOR COTTON
As the Deman/ aroadens Things Will
1 stter.

l Stter.
Looking ahea- Iere seems to be no
indication that tie market is likely to
lose the resiliency that it has shown
almost ever since the cotton exchange
reopened. There Is certainly too much
cotton in sight for immediate require
ments, but if those who own 1t won't
sell until the price is higher, then the
price must go higher as the demand
broadens and the demand Is undoubt-
edly broadening at present. Exports
for the amount on shipboard not clear
ed, total shipments are now within g.
100000 bales Of last year. If exports
hereafter should continue as large as
last year the surplus supply will be
only two or three million bales instead
Of five millions that has been so wide
ly advertised.
Meantime the American dry goods
markets show continued improvement.
Marshal Field & Co., Of Chicago, an
nounce the largest holiday business
they have ever had.
Fall river reports good inquiry for
print cloths and yarns shows a har-
dening tendency and some very large
orders for military specialties to be
shipped abroad have been booked.
The all important question Of next
years acreage Is also coming to the
front more definitely. Extraordinary
reductions are being reported in special
cases. A letter from Austin, Texas,
published in the New York Evening
Post says that there will be reduc-
ton Of perhaps so per cent in the
acreage. which will be effected. but it
is certain to be large and may be SEN
sational. Most important Of all, how
ever, is the buying Of both futures and
spots that Is taking place for German
and Austrian account. Whether these
orders foreshadow an earlier termina-
ton Of the war than Is generally ex-
pected, or reflect the war demand for
cotton no one can say.
In the Southern Woman's magazine,
Miss Genevieve Clark writes Of the
consumption Of cotton in warfare. She
says:
A bit Of the irony Of the gods" is
found in the fact that while war has
demoralized the cotton industry, yet
without cotton there could be no war.
Not single modern gun could be fir
ed, not battleship sail, nor an army
be put in motion without this wonder
full product Of the modest cotton plant
for its fruit is the basis Of all high ex-
plosives and smokeless powder.
A warship is a floating cotton mill,
from the natty suits Of its jolly Jack
tars to the grim shells ready as fuel
for the twelve-inch guns that made
modern warfare so terrible. Long ago
wool was thrown into the discard as
the material for army uniforms, and
the world fights it's battles today clad
in cotton.
Its use ranges from the Arctic ex-
plorer, who lines his duck suit with
cotton to make it warmer, to the Hot
tentot, who spreads film of cotton
cloth across a few poles to keep out
the heat.
In South Africa the cotton blanket
has driven out the woolen one. In the
fartherest north of Canada twenty
million yards Of cotton duck are used
annually for overcoats, replacing fur.
Among the unusual, or rather little
known or thought-o uses Of cotton
are the following:
The foundation Of ceiling enamel is
cotton, and ore single company re-
quired a million yards Of cotton cloth
to shade tobacco plants growing in
southern climes, and four million yards
for the little bags in which the same
tobacco goes to the consumer. One
hundred and eighty million yards Of
cotton cloth carry cement yearly to
build the great office buildings, and
the electrical industry of the country
yearly consumes four hundred thous-
and pounds Of cotton in its insulation
processes.
Whatever the cause the feeling in
the market is certainly one Of conf
dence and those who were waiting to
buy at six cents a pound have aban-
doned all hope Of that figure and have
made up their minds that a reaction
to u cents is all that can be expected.
Meantime no one except the farmer
has any cotton to sell and the hope
that he will accept less than eight
cents for what he now holds Is In our
opinion futile-Theodore H. Price in
Greenville News.