The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-11-13

Foreign CapltdI anu AlouO
Chief Needs, Are Expected to Ma
terialize. Land Is Plentiful and Said
tn Be Very Productive.
RIO DE JANEIRO.-The time is
o,;rg # it is not already IN sight,
,rben the United States must yield to
Pr,zil her present place as the princi-
al producing factor in the raw cot
I'm market of the world.
i The ewes of cotton manufacturers
:, al the great industrial countries,
q ,.o,,dinq the United States, are fixed
=, this country as the undoubted tu-
ARE source of their raw material. They
200 or believe they see, the approach
of cotton famine, with consequent
b;gh prices, and it is absolutely GER
t,;n that, as result of their interest
RraziI IS destined to becomet sooner
or later. the worlds greatest cotton
producing country.
How long it will take to develop
the cotton growing resources OF Bra
III teeming as it is with other equally
valuable resources begging develop
ment. to the point where there will
he an important exportable surplus
cannot be predicted. One thing, how
ever IS certain-when Brazil finally
does get into the International raw
cotton market in earnest it is going
to put another crimp into the already
none too enviable fortunes of the
American cotton planter.
Europe Shows Interest"
The interest of the cotton manu-
lecturers in Brazirs possibilities is as
frank as it is keen. A French mission,
representing not only French but Brit
sh and Belgian capital, recently ar
rived here bent on instituting a sclen-
ifc study on behalf of its principals
Of the present and future OF the cot
ton situation. Earlier in the year an
exclusively British mission made
similar study, combing the country
from one end to the other for data.
Last wear an international conven-
ton OF cotton consumers, in which
the American Cotton Manufacturers
Association was represented, met IN
Rio de Taneiro and formulated reso-
utons intended to advise Brazil as
to the best means of promoting her
raw cotton production.
The cotton producing possibilities
Of Brazil are practically limitlesss, tor
she still has countless acres OF I'M
worked land and there are few places
in the country, outside the Amazon
valley. where cotton can not be made
to grow.
The industry is an old one. For
seventy years, from time to time
when there has been a world shortage
or Brazil has enjoyed bumper crop,
she has done her part in satisfying
the world demand She is a producer
both of short and long staple and the
more costly long staple or sea island
varieties. the former chiefly i'll the
state Of Minas Gcraes and the latter
in somewhat limited region north
Of the Amazon.
Rapid Growth in Manufacture.
Her present crop is by no means
transferable but little of it is now
ayailab for export. Despite the tact
that there has been steady year to
year increase in the output OF the
raw fibre, the growth of Braz1Ts own
domestic cotton weaving and spinning
industry in recent times has been so
rapid that it threatens soon to be In
sufficient even to supply the demand
Of Brazilian looms and spindles.
The crop last year amounted to
lO9295 00o kilos, the yield this year
being estimated at 100000, and OF
the former amount only 33,947 ,0OO
was exported. That the export was
even this large was due to sharp
increase in the acreage planted as re-
suit of an anticipated rise in prices
The ev0orted surplus in 1921 was on
y 10 607 orc kilos and in the preced-
ing year 24696,000 Iilos. Meanwhile
the dovostic cotton textile industry is
expanding by leaps and bounds;
= Brazil is already exporting cotton
cloths in sizeabe quantities to Argen-
una and the other South American
countries
The time when Brazil will enter
upon ar0n scale production of cotton
Tor the world market depends only
on the inducements offered. II the
manufacturers are really fearful OF
cotton shortage, as they appear to be
the time viii not be long in coming
Tor Brazil is the one region in the
world that can he counted on as fully
capable Of meeting any famine that
may arise 1t is conservatively est.
mated there are at least 75,00O,OOt
acres of land in this country excel
emily ad7otod to and available for the
cultivation of the fibre.
Inc soil in many districts is idea
Tor the crop. With proper cultivation
!ne av"rao" yie'd per hectare in Brazi
3bo" 'N ld'os as. against 300 kilo:
N IN Egypt, 200 in the United States ant
tuO IN India. Much of the available
;@nd IS .'' virgin and much more O
mas never been planted to cotton
rcaoor ".~eciallv in the state of Mina'
ueIaes' is abundant and industrious
af :, It works for only about a thirC
o oa me n, cost of similar labor in the Unit