Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-27
WILD SCRAMBLE
FOR COTTON Is
NOW fDREsFFV
Lancashire Mills Almost
Entirely Dependent On
American Long Sta71le.

i Manchester Eng. July 26-TT1e
outlook IN regard to future supply of
raw cotton for the great Lancashire
mills is serious. according % Chair
man Hutton Of he council Of British
Cotton Growing associations. Mr..
fulton says:
The demands Of the world for cot
ton are, going 10 increase, and par
ttculariy in America which country
thanks % the war, is now getting d
very strong mold on the export trade
This means that every year when s11p--
plies are short there is going 20 De
q scramble for cotton md We can
DO sure hat America will not 90
short, and that Great Britain as the
next largest consumer, will De the
greatest sufferer The situation is
one 70 cause the gravest anxiety r
10 NOT think one can exaggerate its
seriousness Unless We can build IN
new supplies IN other parts Of the
world can see most serious asses
facing the Lancashire cotton trade,
and il nav ne that lancashire will
permanently lose q very large pro-
portion Of our export rade. It that
should hanneu MANY Of our mills will
have 70 close and a large proportion
of the population must migrate
THE lancashire cotton industry is
mainly dependent on the export trade
probably 10 he extent If folIr-
dfths ST he machinery employed. e
has 10 meet the competition of The
/, whole world and IN the past This has
been done by producing articles finer
and superior IN quality tlan our COM
petitors can produce For his We
must have ample supplies Of he long
/ er, finer and better quail les Of cot
/ ton
! Lancashire IS deuendeut On Amer
fca for 81 per cent of the cotton re-
/ CURED for the spindIes which nave
Increased to 50 millions and looms
! to 500 060 and as America consumes
4 more every wear it means snort time
!! and other difficulties for Lancashire
4 mills. besides a silrinkage in exports
j Gf cotton Goods
i Great Britain, according Mr. Hut
j ON. is not obtaining The same PRO-
j portion Of the American cron as for
merry IN the period 1S9o-I895 Great
prftain took 9G5 ger cent If the
American crop but for he period
f9fe-Igf.. It was only 256 per cent
Z This is accounted for by the greatly
i increased eonsumpfiO on the part OF
America and If tho cotton rrade 81
he world is ~ he in 3 position te
meat The natural increase m the de-
nand. an inc~aa ad production every
vear Of az least 500 600 bales IS nee
essarv
REGARDING he DnesiHlities Of cot
ton grown within the British empire
VT. tuition considers f1lese are 1000
hut The war has set back he scheme
FOR increasing sllcf growth IN various
PARTS India crows hardly any cotton
srnt9hle - the I.aneashire trade
Egypt produces the sort required but
in insufficient quantities Uganda
! cotton IS all hat eruld ae desired
sut the trade received q sevare ham
dicap by the war Nigeria shows he
hest possibilities. With pr0fucrinn
/ If 90 coo bales. hut here 9galn the
difficulty is 70 establish 4 goofs vari-
ETY. which VIII make The indns'r7
: BrGftahle to he native
: IN ureira the government r. imme-
: date action and 70 consider the
, question Ct Grants he SAYS the Lin
cashir cett0n n.ade g faced witt
mos. serlons difficulties and s.ven
WITH possible ruin ard there ~ nor
moment n he lost"