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Excerpt from Cotton Values in Textile Fabrics: A Collection of Cloth Samples, Arranged to Show the Value of Cotton, When Converted Into Various Kinds of Cloth
This collection of samples of cotton goods with data on costs per yard and per pound, was prepared to show the possibilities that lie in our cotton crop.
Opposite each sample is shown the value of a good North Carolina crop, bales, reckoned as raw material, and sold at a nor mal average price of six cents per pound or thirty dollars per bale.
Contrasted with this valuation, is shown what the same half million bales would bring if manufactured into goods like the samples, at normal average prices.
The cheapest sample shown is duck, worth fourteen cents per pound. Half a million bales of cotton in this shape would bring thirty-five million dollars, or nearly two and a half times its value in the raw state. The whole crop of the country, say eleven mil lion bales, ii manufactured into this goods and sold at this price, would show a gain over the raw price of over four hundred imillion dollars, or over five dollars per capitafor all the people of the Continental United States.
To manufacture the entire cotton crop into duck would be a misfortune somewhat akin to selling the entire crop in its raw state. But cotton may be made into numerous other forms to produce even greater values, as is shown by the succeeding samples; the last of which shows that if the North Carolina crop could be converted into Swiss embroidery and sold at twenty dollars per pound, it would bring five billion dollars. This is about equal to all the money received for all the raw cotton grown in the United States in the past twenty years. It is more than enough to buy all the cotton and woolen mills in the world' To manufacture the entire crop of the country into embroidery would be as unde sirable as to turn it all into duck. These extreme figures are given to show the wide range of possibilities in the business. They exhibit the relative gain in both cases and not the absolute result to be attained.
All of the samples shown are made ofcotton; but some of the finest were not made of the ordinary cotton of our commerce, and therefore it may be contended that the claim for such princely values in our cotton is beyond the mark. But the goods were made of a kind of cotton. This cotton was grown under certain conditions. If these conditions were well understood, and the production of cotton carried on with sufficient skill, these fine grades of cotton could be raised over large areas now devoted to the ordinary kind.
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