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SPECIAL NUMBER lugusta Noted for Handling and Manufacturing Cotton Products ■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. COTTON SEED PRODUCTS . —. ■ ii• . . ... The largest independent Cotton Seed Oil Mill in the South Atlantic States. Phone or wire us at our expense whenever we can serve you. Satisfaction Guaranteed (fs) PERT L Z Different Brands for Differ ent Crops. We also Supply Potash Salts i' 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 a q qif AUGUSTA, GEORGIA . -- -r-^ SAVANNAH, GA. AUGUSTA, GA. AUGUSTA, GA. ’#iUSTA !M 1914” E. L. Stelling, Secretary