The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-12-03
MARKET IN SPAIN.s
FOR GOOD GRAmS
GOOD MIDDLING AND STRICT
MIDDLING PREFERRED.
Dial Informed of Needs of Catalo-
MIA Mills-Careful Grading
Required.
P. H. MCGOWAN in The State.

I. II. hCIUWdu LII liC o'e'eS'
Washington, Nov. 25.-Recently,
as is we'll known, Senator Dial OF
South Carolina has been in communl-
cation through the state department
to ascertain the needs of foreign
spinners for American cotton, and he
is in receipt of number of inter-
esting communications bearing upon
the subject. Some of these, for in
stance, the following, which he has
;; Just received from Barcelona, Spain,
points out not only the needs for
American cotton, but the drawbacks,
deficiencies and mistakes which
American exports and shippers make
frequently. 1t is also shown where
cotton producers in the South Allan
tic states must grow better type of
cotton in order to compete with the
Egyptian long staple and the Texas
variey.
This communication is exceedingly
interesting and very important from
every viewpoint, especially to the
grower, and is as follows:
GAS you are undoubtedly aware,
practically all the cotton imported
into Spain comes through the main
port of Barcelona, a goodly number
of the 600 cotton mills being located
in the section known as Catalonia, of
which Barcelona is the largest city
and port. Even such big mills as the
Industria Malaguena of Malaga OBJ
tain their raw cotton through Bar
ce1ona.
sDuring the, last = cotton. season
there were imported into Spain 237,-
121 bales Of American cotton, which
was 46,s88 bales less than in the
:191S-1919 season. CT this amount
95,4s6 bales proceeded from Calves
ton, eS,67s bales from New Orleans,
s,46S bales from Savannah, 1852
from Charleston, 1854 from. New
York, and the remaining 3,263 bales
reached here through other routes.
"Thus, of the S23,172 bales Of cot
ton imported altogether during the
last season, it will be seen, tnat the
majority was supplied by the United
States. Likewise, of the 3i3,92s
bales imported in the 191S-13i9 sea-
son, $4,000 came from the United
States.
s.The cotton most preferred by
Barcelona spinners is Texas, New or-
leans and Atlantic states, in the Or
der named. Barcelona buys chiefly
what is known in the European mar
ket as fully good middling--Lverpooi
class, which corresponds to the Amer
lean good middling designation. Sec
ond in demand in Barcelona is what
is known as Liverpool good middling'
equivalent to American. strict mid
ding. Lastly, a very small portion
of the lower grades is imported.
"The Texas cotton, so much in de-
mand here, is of the % millimeters
staple Cor 'hebra, as the staple IS
termed in SPANISH. 1t is presumed
that your state produces mainly the
highly valued long staple sea island
cotton. In this connection, l have to
state that of Spain's Importation OF
American. cotton only about 8 per
! cent. is sea island. When sea island
cotton is needed here, it is said that
Egyptian cotton is employed IN It's
stead. From inquiries on the subject
under consideration, the possible high
price of your superior sea island is
one of the two sole obstacles with
which it would appear that your
project is confronted. However, II
YOU have in mind the expectation OF
q grade of ( cotton which can be sold
at a little under the price of Texas
cotton and be approximately of 2S
millimeters staple, the question OF
such drawback is, of course, at once
removed.
"The other possible hindrance to
YOUR plan of selling and shipping
directly to the merchants here with
out the intermediation Of the New
! York houses, is the possibility that
your producers have not realized that
| it is absolutely necessary that the
cotton offered to Spain be carefully
graded into the classi6caticns stand
ard in the cotton market. This office
| understands that the purchasing ar
! rangement such as you propose has
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