Sea Island Cotton		Length of Staple
in Inches
Carolina Sea Island 1.8
Florida Sea Island 1.8
Georgia Sea Island 1.7
Barbados Sea Island 2.
Egyptian Cottons
Yannovitch 1.5
Abassi 1.5
Good Brown Egyptian (Mitafifi)1.2
American Cotton
Good Middling Memphis 1.3
Good Middling Texas 1.0
Good Middling Upland 1.0
Indian Cottons
Fine Tinnevelly .8
Fine Bhaunagar 1.0
Fine Amraoti 1.0
Fine Broach .9
Fine Bengal .9
Fine ginned Sind .8
Good ginned Kumta 1.0

The table of the number of spindles in each country in the world, given on page [6], gives some idea of the relative position of the United States in the field of cotton manufacturing. We have seen how the English industry, having the prior start, grew to imposing proportions and helped to bring about a change almost as great in its effects as the French Revolution, which was occurring at almost the same time. British supremacy in cotton manufacturing has never been truly challenged, but there has been an appreciable growth in several other countries, and in Germany and Japan, at least, the recent development has been little short of phenomenal. New figures will probably show that in the future Japan will be the chief competitor of England and the United States for a share of the cotton trade of the world.


Fall River, Massachusetts

The Home Market
Created An Industry

The chief factor in the growth of the American industry was probably not the nearness of the source of supply, cheap fuel or labor, nor any of these factors which operated in the case of England, such as climate, geographical position, and shipping control, but more than anything 14 else the presence of a market close at hand which grew so rapidly, more rapidly indeed than the industry could grow to meet it. Aided to some extent by an import tariff, the manufacturers have weathered some short periods of depression, but in the main the industry has grown in direct ratio to the growth of the country.


A typical Southern mill