Arizona republican., 1917-10-06

Photo by Elllins X Elkins ! he meets the requirements of contract
 as to the strength and quality. Manu- l lecturers who have experimented with the Arizona Egyptian cotton have found 1 that it is less wasty than other cottons ] and that it can be utilized satisfactorily ] as a substitute for most purposes. but 1 so long as the manufacturer meets his l contract the amount of waste discard 1 ed in the manufacturing process IS not i primarily of interest to the converter or consumer. In fact manufacturers are 1 reluctant to change while their busi- ness in on a profitable basis. However. 1 on certain classes of goods mixtures of l two different cottOnS gre made to ad- vantage Because the Arizona Egyp- 1 tian cotton is heavy bodied cotton, IL l is entirely possible that the amount 1 produced can be utilized advantage 1 ously if properly mixed with other cot i tons in the manufacturing process. | Manufacturers claim that the sooner l ths cotton comes on the market in large i quantities. the easier will it be to place : it on a competitive basis with other | long staple cottons Gentlemen don't you think that day is about at hand? i Now, heretofore all mention of Ari- | Zuna Egyptian cotton regarding tests, 1 etc.. has beer of the Yuma variety. l Now I come to the Pima, and what | have we in the Pima? A cotton ac- 1 corJling to my humble judgment which 1 promises, iron. what 1 have seen of | the ginning Cf the first lC0 bales, greater length by full 1 1-16 to 1ls
 of an inch, average, than the best of 1 the Yuma variety. The color is better 1 and it impresses me as having more | silkiness You gentlemen and the 1 growers of Pima cotton owe many
 thanks to a committee of gentlmen in
 the agricultural department in Wash 1 ington tand most of you know who ! those gentlemen are) for the present i-perfection of this royal staple variety | of cotton.
 Pima cotton has had long road to |. travel in arriving at it's present perfec tiOn and 1 am prone to believe the true 1 possibilities of the fibre are as yet inadequately appreciated. From my
 experience 1 am prone to think you have a cotton which obtains with fully as great or greater length than any foreign Egyptian variety, or than any
 of the Georgia or Florida Sea Island. ! Of course the true Sea Island, grown
 on the islands such as EIdisto and St
 James, etc. off the coast of South l Carolina excepted and in saying this
 l mean the average of the Pima length as against the average of the Sea
 Island, in the states mentioned The
 Sea Island and the Sakellarides Egyp-
 tian cotton may possess some qualities which the Pima variety of Arizona Egyptian may not-I cannot say-but
 1 am speaking of length of fibre and | whether relative values for length in
 the future will obtain as they have in
 the past l don't know; it is only req l sonable to suppose they will, and in connection with this remark I would l say that in my 40 years in the com mercial end of the cotton business l thave never seen a season that l 3-16
 cotton wasn't worth more than 1 Is,
 or l A woIth more than 1 316, or | i 3-S worth more than 1 5-16, similar
 grades obtaining.
 Gentlemen, you can make your
 own deductions. You know or can as-
 certain at what prices other cottons
 are quoted According to latest quo
 tations from the bureau of markets the
 price Wednesday was extra choice Sea
 Island landed New Bedford, Mass, 65
 to 67 cents, and last week standard
 third grade Egyptian (which 1 do not
 
 l P1ma) was quoted on the New York markets at 65 to 70 cents, landed east. 1 have here before me a physical il-
 luStratlon of a few varieties of cotton
 showing the differences faithfully and
 honestly pulled and to the laity the differences are readily discernible and
 anyone can see that Pima leads. ] My time is too limited to go into
 details as l should like to. Before closing, however, 1 will give you a few facts regarding cotton winch l ; feel sure will interest you. It is es- timated that the population of the world increases at the rate of three per
 cent per annum and now approximates 700,00O0O0 people. Slightly more than
 half of this 1,700,000,000 people are , supplied with cotton goods made by , modern machinery, and Wu Ting Fang is quoted as having said that If my
 people wore cotton like they do in
 America and every Chinaman should . add one inch to his shirt it would con- , Sume the entire crop of the United States What, then, are the chances of this country losing it's supremacy in cotton production.
 l Government statistics show the ex- ; istence of an area of 700000 square
 miles of cotton land, or AS 900, 900 } acres, Of which one acre in every 15 was given to cotton in 1906. Were this proportion raised to one in every , three it would mean a crop of 65,000,- , OO0 bales of cotton at the existing rate : of production.
 Cotton is the cheapest and most de- sirable all around fibre grown for the clothing and other uses of mankind. It
 is the monitor of decency for it prac tically clothes the universe. It is the
 right hand of civilization in it's prog ress through savage lands. In insula- , tion it carries the electric current to the farthest ends of the earth, and has made possible the automobiles, and it's : aid in conquering the air is an untold . quantity.
 | No other plant in the vegetable i. Kingdom affords a fibre capable of l being transformed into a greater vari- 9 ety of fabrics, contributing from root to leafless stalk to the use, comfort and f happiness of mankind. Our govern = ment enumerates three uses for the I root of the Dlapt fpur for itS Sto ll-