Cotton Movement and Fluctuation (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...goods has undergone noteworthy expansion the past season, the outflow of goods in almost all directions being greater than in 1903-04, and to those countries upon which we have most largely relied to furnish a market for our cotton textiles, the shipments show conspicuous increases. In the fiscal year 1903-04 China took but 76,886,534 yards, against 277,671,500 yards in 1902-03, and 335,327,764 yards in 1901-02, but in 1904-05 the exports to that country have risen to 474,909,510 yards, a record figure which is particularly gratifying in view of recent reports that boycotting of American goods was to be encouraged in retaliation for the manner in which our officials are claimed to be administering the Chinese Exclusion Act. We do not find the same cause for satisfaction in volume of our exports to South America, even though the aggregate has been slightly greater than last year, having reached 57,049,376 yards. The 1902-03 total was 69,454,586 yards. The West Indies and Central America demand has, however, absorbed 69,684,822 yards the current year, against only 47,755,691 yards in 1903-04 and 52,071,695 yards in 1902-03. Japan in recent years has made relatively unimportant use of American cottons (domestics), the extension of the manufacturing industry in that country having made them in great measure independent of outside sources of supply; but in the fiscal year 1904-05 we have furnished 16,231,710 yards of cloth or a greater quantity than sent to Mexico and Canada combined. Exports to the Philippines have risen from 5,046,749 yards in 1903-04 to 15,957,161 yards the last fiscal year. In the aggregate the exports of goods reported by quantity in 1904-05 reached 694,500,715 yards, and in 1903-04 only 247,380,737 yards; an increase of fully 180 per cent....