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■TION INDUSTRY
I HEEDS i REVIEW
■i the light of the progress of textiles
hirteen of tlie leading cotton growing
within the last quarter of a cen
m,• it havdly seems necessary to review j
growth of the South’s potentialities'
domain. Cotton is spun in every
state. in ISSO onlv 179.000
H'S were taken by the mills, which
only a little more than three per
■ t of the cotton raised in that year
|KI only ten per cent of the takings ot
the mills in the country.
IHn the year ended August 31, 1013,
thorn mills took 2.969,559 bales, or
per cent of the takings by mills of
whole eountvy and 30.9 per cent, of
crop raised. The 1913 takings by the
mills were nearly twice as
as the takings by all mills in the
in 1880 . But, Jn spite of the
tlms indicated, the South has
Wm no tneans realized upon its oppor-
in the textile Industry.
Raise Over Half Crop.
■n the 1913 season 7,185,000 bales, or
than half the total irouthevn crop,
raised in states west of the Mis-
river. In those states —Arkan-
M. Louisiana. Missouri, Oklahoma and
—only 15-0.000 hales were taken by
Htoti mills. The comparison of bales
and bales taken by mills in the
states is made in the fol-
table:
MB Crop Takings,
wg Bales. Bales.
Ktl>:mm 1,390,000 303.000
Kansas 82 9. not) 1
H>rida 03.000
lick v ... ........ 3,000 27,000
■i ; si;ina 39 1,000 10.000
: h Carolina 916.000 876.000
Bi.'homa w 1.051.000 8,000
Carolina 1.281,000 783,000
Krotil w... 14.167.000 3.970,000
a few handled bales grown
£B other than Southern states.
Only Two States.
Blim figures show that the states
Bit-h raised more than 50 per cent of
cotton took for their mills only 3
cent, of the portion of the crop that
raised. That is, it will be noted, a
showing than the one made by
whole South in ISSO. As a matter
fact, onlv two Southern states —Vir-
and Kentucky—and they growing
a comparatively small quantity of
Btnn. manufactured in 1912-13 more
Bton than they grew. Texas, market
-1.862,000 hales or 34.3 per cent, of the
crop, used only 92.000 bales. Geor
ranking second'in production with
bales, used 655,000 hales, or
move than one-third its crop,
nearest approaches to use of the
of a state’s crop were made by
Carolina, which took 876.000 hales
■ l raised 916.009 hales, and by South
which took 782.000 bales and
B. T. LOWE & CO.
Cotton Merchants Domestic and Export
HEINEKEN & VOGELSANG
COTTON AUGUSTA, GA.
JOSIAH T. CLARKE WM. M. BUTT
CLARKE BUTT
727 Reynolds Street. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
COTTON FACTORS
Liberal Advances Made on Consignments.
Commissions Reasonable.
The Atlantic States Warehouse Co.
Capital $250,000.00
The warehouse that makes it possible for Augusta to be one of the greatest Inland
Cotton Markets in the world.
Facilities for Storing 101,000 Bales of Cotton
«
Bonded features enabling most liberal advances that can be promptly made.
This warehouse has the lowest Insurance Rates in America, making its protection
the meximum at the minimum cost. It is accessible to all roads entering Augusta, and
this makes the cost of handling the lowest.
This is the warehouse for you to consider, Mr. Cotton Dealer. It is to your interest.
It is the only warehouse in Augusta where cotton is not subject to high water.
The Atlantic States Warehouse Co.
Thos. Barrett. Jr., Pres’t. Wm. H. Barrett, Vice Pres. Albert S. Hatch, Sec. and Treas.
—DIRECTORS—
Cecil Cochrane, Wm. H. Barrett, H. H. Gumming,
Thos. Barrett, Jr., !*• & Charbonnier, Jr., Albert S. Hatch,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
raised 1,281,000 bales. These two states
are in the heart of the region which Was
set apart by Nature as the center of the
cotton mill industrv of the eountvy, if
not of the world—convenient to the cot
ton fields, with ideal climatic conditions,
close to water power, the earliest force
be applied to the textile industry
And the source of millions of horse-pow
er through hydro.-electric development,
and within easy reach of wood and coal
mines for a supply of fuel that bridged
the gap between the old water-power
and tlie new hydro-electric power and
now a reinforcer of the latter. More
over. tlie rise of the cotton mills in tlie
Piedmont section was made possible in
giving employment and unmeasured op
portunities for advancement in many
lines to hundreds of thousands of whites
i from the coves of the highlands and the
neglected wastes of the sand hills and
lowlands. That fact, modified by the
additional fact of earlier occupation of
the fielli, accounts in large measure for
the dominance in ttie South of the Pied
mont states in cotton manufacture. Tlie
states farther west that have come to
dominate in the aggregate in cotton
growing have never had in large hum'
hers the distinctive population that has
furnished the human labor for the South
ern cotton mills. They have, however,
shown quite conclusively that they can
manufacture cotton. The prospect lie
fore them, to be attained when they
have equipped themselves with the popu
lation to give them the necessary opera
tives, is revealed in a consideration of
what is possible for Texas, for instance.
If Texas was spending as much of it£
crop proportionately as is North Caro
lina. its mills would he calling for four
million, five hundred and two thousand
hales, or 82.5 per cent as many as all
the mills in the country took in the past
season.
If the cotton-growing states were
spinning as much of the Southern crop
proportionately as is South Carolina of
its crop Southern mills would be calling
for 5.643,000 bales annnally. Such a call
from Southern mills is quite within the
range of probability. Tlie quantity taken
by the mills .in 1912-13. Seventeen years
ago Southern mills were taking less than
one-third as much cotton as they took
In the past season. Seventeen yea I*9
ago the South sent beyond its borders for
manufacture 8s per cent of its cotton
crop; last season it sent away 78 per
cent. Seventeen years ago the South
took only 36 peV cent of the cotton takein
by all the mills of the country; last sea
son the South took 54 per cent.
Great Future Seen.
The l»i ml writing on the wall is easily
Interpreted by the individuals who know
the capabilities of the South in cotton
production and have followed the de
velopments there in cotton manufactur
ing. It may not bt* fulfilled in ten years
or in twenty-five years, but the time
will come when the South will he fak
ing three or four times as many bales
annually as it is now taking and pro
ducing three or four times as much cot
ton as it is even though it
may not have increased its cotton
growing acreage by one square mile.
A NEW YARN.
But that isn’t the same story you
told me the last time you were here.
No, mum: you seemed ter doubt
de other one.
Astrology Given Hard Blow
Department of Agriculture Brands So-
Called Science a Superstition.
Washington.—Astrology is branded as
a superstition by the Department of
Agriculture in its current weekly news
letter. Discussing the question of wheth
er the planets affect the weather, the
weather, the Department declared: “The
belief still to be found in all countries,
that the planets and tlie moon do affect
the weather never had any scientific
basis whatever; it is only a remnant of
the many superstitions generated and
fostered by that other greater supersti
tion. astrology.”
The department’s conclusion on the
subject says:
“We have every reason to believe that
neither the planets nor the moon can
have any appreciable effect on tlie
weather, because they furnish so little
heat Upon which all weather changes
ultimately depend, and this belief is ful
ly supported by weather records.”
What do Georgia farmers say to this?
Planting on the dark of the moon has
The Popular Opera
(From the Philadelphia Evening Tel
egraph.)
Date one night an esteemed citizen
named Jones rambled Into a case in a
metropolitan city and found his friend
Johnson seated alone at a table.
Sound liUe ordering something and
then came tlie question as to where
Johnson had been.
'‘Thought 1 would give myself a
treat," answered Johnson, ‘‘and went
to the opera.”
"The deuce you did!” was tlie inter
ested rejoinder of Jones. “What did
you hear?”
“I heard,” smilingly returned John
son, "that the Bright-Browns are
about to get a divorce; that the Sny
der-Sharps are going to separate and
that the Benton-Sweets intend spend
ing a season in Europe."
The Ungrateful Poor
( From Life.)
The proposal to bring on the millen
nium by issuing 3-cent pieces and
one-half cents is a splendid and
epoch-making contribution to the
science of economics. When three
eent pieces come in articles which now
sell for 15 cents because of the divis
ion of our money dimes and nickels
will sell for 13 cents. Thus the poor
will greatly benefit.
The poor are always benefiting by
something of this sort. The number
of benefits they have received from
time immemorial through kindly leg
islation is wonderful. That they still
go on being poor must be their own
fault. When thoughtful lawyers are
doing so much for them, and sympa
thetic legislators are constantly aiding
them, their perverseness is appall
ing!
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
been the vogue for many moons, for
some tilings—shall we give it up?
Say, how about hanging up a snake
now?
Bridges Smith says it brings rain in
Macon—lie tried it once and got a
“trash-lifter.”
Fielding Wallace, President and Treasurer
Planters Cotton Oil Co.
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whenever we can serve you.
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Different Brands for Differ
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and Nitrate of Soda.
SOUTHERN STATES PHOSPHATE & FERTILIZER COMPANY
(ss)
G. H, NIXON Established 1891 G. W. WRIGHT
INIXOIN & WRIGHT
COTTON FACTORS
851 Reynolds Street Augusta, Ga.
LIBERAIj CASH ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
Manufacturers and Exporters of
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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SAVANNAH, GA. AUGUSTA, GA.
AUGUSTA, GA.
’#iUSTA !M 1914”
E. L. Stelling, Secretary