TABLE 67. Fluctuations in spot price of middling cotton at New Orleans, 68. Average prices of middling cotton and of staple manufactures of 69. Prices of cotton yarns, cotton waste, and staple cotton manufac- 70. Annual average export prices of leading articles of domestic pro- 71. American cotton brought into sight and taken by spinners during Illustration showing growth of cotton plant from the square to the 72. Net receipts of raw cotton at selected ports, 1875 to 1910. 74. Mean annual quotations in cents per hundred pounds of ocean 75. Mean rates, cents per hundred pounds, of compressed cotton from Page. 433 434 435, 436 437 438 439 441 442 442 443 76. Supply and distribution of cotton in the United States for selected 443 77. Cotton stock held on specific dates by class of holders, and by 444 Cotton manufactures in the United States... 445 446 78. Production and consumption of cotton and number of active cot- 81. Number of active ring and mule spindles, by States, 1889 to 1909. 84. Number and classification of cotton goods looms, by geographic 85. Number and capacity of spinning mills, weaving mills, and mills 447 447-449 450 451 451 451 452, 453 454, 455 86. Summary of principal materials used in the manufacture of cotton 87. Cotton goods products in the United States, by kind, quantity, 455, 456 88. Summary of cotton goods product in the United States, by kind, 456, 459 89. Yarns spun, classified by counts, by States, and by geographic 459, 460 90. Comparative summary of the cotton goods industry, with per cent 461 91. Comparative summary of cotton small wares, with per cent of 462 92. Comparative summary of upholstery manufactures, 1899 and 1904. 462, 463 93. Comparative summary of lace and lace curtain manufactures, 1899 and 1904 463 94. Comparative summary of hosiery and knit goods, with per cent 96. Hosiery and knit goods products, by kind, quantity, and value, 464 464 465 Page. TABLE 97. Capital invested in textile manufacturing, by industries, 1839 to 1904.. 466 98. Approximate distribution of the consumption of raw cotton, by 466 99. Value of products for cotton and wool manufactures, hosiery and 101. Wages, average number of wage earners, and wage per capita, by 102. Population, wealth, per cent of cotton exported and retained, Cotton seed and its products... 103. Distribution of cotton-seed oil mills, by countries, 1910.. 104. Comparative summary of the cotton-seed products industry, by 105. Comparative summary, by States, of the quantity and cost of seed 106. Cotton seed produced, quantity manufactured, and its value per Diagram No. 3.-Relative importance of the several countries in 107. World's production of cotton for mill consumption, by countries, World's production, consumption and trade, in cotton 108. World's active cotton spindles and mill consumption of raw cot- 109. Imports and exports of raw cotton and of cotton manufactures, 110. Aggregate and annual wages, average number of wage earners per APPENDIX C. 466 467 468 469, 470 471, 475 472 473 476, 477 478, 479 480, 482 484 485 485-488 486 487 488 Tariff Board statistical and other data relating to the production, consumption, and trade Statistics of cotton and manufactures of cotton arranged with relation to the paragraph of the tariff act. PARAGRAPH 548. (Free list) Cotton or cotton waste or flocks: TO REDUCE THE DUTIES ON MANUFACTURES OF COTTON. JULY 26, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. ERRATA. Page 6, line 10, the word "two-thirds" should read "one-third." Page 36, the first sentence of the third paragraph should read: "Conclusions as to the excess of existing duties beyond the labor and manufacturing costs, reached from an examination of statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor, are confirmed by a careful examination of a number of representative fabrics in general use." Page 46, in last line, the figures "$209,593,419" should read "$209,810,419." Page 425, in Table 60, the consumption pounds for 1899, "1,910,509,000," should read "1,923,703,000," and for 1909, "2,437,565,000" should read "2,279,501,000." Page 432, under Table 65, the blank after "Table" should be "65." 3535 the muustrial arts known to man, new, п anу, пave contributed more to the progress of civilization and to the welfare of the human race than the manufacture of cotton. India is generally accepted as the birthplace of cotton manufacture. The early devices for turning the yarn into cloth were very crude. The coarsest yarns were spun on a clumsy one-thread wheel, which was probably the progenitor of the domestic wheel so long used in England and America. Fine yarns for making finetexture goods were produced on a spindle. This spindle had been used for ages and was simply a straight piece of wood weighted at one end, first by a piece of clay and later on by a piece of iron. The distaff was also used to some extent. These three simple devices were the only instruments used in India for making yarns in the early attempts at cotton manufacture. The Hindoo people lacked 3535-H. Rept. 65, 62—1——1 |