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OURt WASHINGTON LETTER. Cotton ftports Aggregate Nearly 500 Million Dollars-Home Con sumption SteadBly Increasing. Washington, D. C., June 20.-Cot. ton exports from the United States will aggregate nearly 500 million dollars in the fiscal year which ends with the present month. The total for the 11 months ending with May, as shown by figures just announced by the Bureau of Statistics of the De partment of Commerce and Labor, is 470 million dollars, and as' the May exports aggregate about 20 million dollars in value, it seems to justify th.e statement that the total for the fiscal year 1907 will fall but ilight ly below the 500 million-dollar line. This total of approximately 500 mil lion dollars as the value of raw cot ton exported from the country is far in excess of that of any preceding year in the history of the cotton ex port trade. The largest total value of cotton exported in any year prior to th-at now about to end was that of 1906, when the total was 401 million dollars, the next highest being that of 1905, 380 millions; in 1904, 371 mil lions; in 1903, 316 millions; and in 1901, 314 millions, prior to which time the value of cotton exported had never touched the 300 million dol lar line. Prior to 1850 cotton exports never reached as much as 100 million dollars in value annually and prior to 1860 had never touched the 200 mil lion-dollar mark, and it was not un til 1901 that they crossed the 300 million-dollar line. In 1906 their val ue for the first time crossed the 400 million-dollar line, and in 1907 will nearly reach the 500 million-dollar mark. Meantime, with all of this increase in exportation, the share of the cot ton crop of the United States which is consumed at home is steadily in creasing. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics show that in 1876, 29 per cent of the cotton crop of the Un ited States was taken by domestic mills; in 1886, 33 per cent; in 1896, 35 per cent; and in 1906, 41 per cent. The increase in the value of cot ton exported in the fiscal year about to end will be nearly 90 million dol lars over that of the immediately pre ceding year, a growth due entirely to an increase in the quantity exported, the average value per pound of cot ton exported in the 11 months for which statistics are available having been 10.62 cents, or slightly less than that for the corresponding period of the preceding year, which averaged 11.04 cents per pound; though even this average valuation of 10.62 cents per pound for 1907 is high when coin pared with that of a decade ago, when the average export pricc of cots ton was but 7.4 ce.nts per pound for the fiscal year 1897, 5.9 cents for the fiscal year 1898, and 5.4 cents for the fiscal year- 1899, this being the lowest im a n nver-age iin a long ternm of year-s, while the highest annual averague wtas that of~ th:e fiscal year 1904. 12 cents per pound. Adding to thie value of raw cotton exp)orted that of other cotton pro ducts, wvhethmer tm annfactures from thme fiber or from the sceeds, the total cotton product cxpl)(o$d during the year wvill approximate 550 million dol lar-s' inlue, that of cloths and other mamnufactur-es of this character being likely to aggregate about 33 millions, cotton-seed oil about 17 millions, and cotton seed oil cake hbout 17 millions and cottolene and lardine and other ar-ticles of this class pr1oduced chief ly from cotton seed oil, approximate. ly 5 millions of dollars. -This total of raw cotton exported, aggregating as it does nearly 500 mil lion dollars in the pr-esent year, is far in excess of any other single arti cles. Breadstuffs, meats, and manu factures of iron and steel, while showing large totals, fall in each case materially below cotton in the value of their respective exports. Meat and dairy pinoducts for the full fiscal year will show exports aggre gating apprloximiately 175 millions; manufactures of ir-on and steel, about 185 millions; copper, nearly 100 millions; wood, and -manufactures 'thereof, over 75 millions, and leather, Sand manuf'actures thereof, about 45 millions. All the great cotton consuming countries of the world have, in the last year, increased their drafts up on the United States for raw cotton. In the ten months for which detailed figures are available, thme quantity sent to the United Kingdom has grown from 1,502 million poundls last year to 1,869 millions; to Germany, from 830 million pounds to 1,103 millions; to France, from 373 mip lions to 485 millions; to. taly, from 216 millions -to 263 millions; to Spain, from 101 millions to 117 millions; to Japan, from C8 millions to 118 mil lions; to Belgium, fi'om 46 millions to 71 millions; and to Canada, from 04 millions to 70 millions of- pounds. The raw, cotton exported to Japan fron 'the United States in the fiscal yeai will aggregate approximately. 150 mi). lion pounds, valued at approximately 16 million dollars, which will, how ever, be slightly below the figures ol 1905, in which year the total quan tity of cotton sent to Japan was 16E million pounds, valued at practicall 17 million dollars. The United Kingdom is by far thc largest purchaser of American cot ton, the total shipments to that coun. try in the year about to end being likely to considerably exceed 2 bil lion pounds, with a value of consid erably more thain 200 million dollars, Germany ranks second, and the valu( of cotton exported from the United States to that country during th< year will exceed 125 million dollars while to France the total will probA bly not exceed 60 millions, to Ital3 the total will probably be a little ovei 30 millions, to Spain approximatel. 15 millions, and to Japan, as already indicated, approximately. 15 millions The value of cotton manufacture. exported duri,ng the year about tc end will fall consideibly below that of the fiscal year 1906 and b< somewhat less than that of 1905. This falling off occurs ahnost exclusivel1 in the trade with China, to which th( exports of cotton cloths from th( United States for the ten months foi which statistics are available have been but little over 5 million dollars, against 26 millions in the correspond. ing months of 1906 and 21 millionm in. the corresponding months of 1905. This -decline in the movementE of cottons from the United States tc China is largely due to the large ac cumulations of surplus merchandis of this character already in existeitce in China, this surplus being due tc overimportations in the year immed iately preceding the close of the wai between Japan and Russia. James S. McCarthy. The woman who betrays the an guish of her soul to the world for NATIONAL BANK I 0 Now-a-days the succes bills by check, where hi TheTpresent way saves tin has money at his comman< cash is a voucher for his fit that it can serve them in n1 THE NATIONAL BA15 in its number of account turers, Corp6rations and I1 DIRE( M. 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