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FACTS AS T01912 COTTON CROP
I I neo sal RCNNlVt. BALKS PRO
IK 1 I D LAM \ I VB.
Herond I .argent Yield Known In Uni?
ted NCate?, Belli? t:*ceeded Only by
that of Itll ?i Value of 1012
l ro|? Nearly one BlUlon lHdlars.
Washington. June 29.?Statistics
for the cutt.?u cr<?i> in the United
Ptaus for the year 1912 are gtf n In
datall In a bulletin soon to be issued
b' Director Durand, of the bureau of
ths cenaus, department of MMMfsa
It was prepared under the supervis?
ion of Win m Stuart, chief statlstl
cian for manufacturers, assisted by II
J. Zimmerman.
The quantity of cotton reported for
tho crop of 1912, with Unters includ?
ed and round bal^a counted as half
balsa, la 14,090,863 running hales.
With the exception of that of 1911
this is ths largest crop the Unit? I
State* has ever produced. Expressed
lA gross 100-pound bales, the crop
amounted to 14.313,01 & bales, being
1.917.2t 1 bales, or U 9 per cent less
than that of 1911. but exceeding that
of 1910 by 2.307.3*7 bales, or 19.2 per
cent; that of 1909 by 3.997,633 bales,
er 3S.S per cent; and that of 1904,
the third largest crop, by 633,061
bales, or 4.6 per cent.
The average annual production of
rotton f.?r th.- yean 1 IM 1N I traf.
10.0ftl.003 bales, and fur the years
1901-1912. 13,294,33 bales; the In?
crease in the average annual produc?
tion being 3.239.330 bales, or 32.2 per
cent. When It Is considered that of
the ?.t*l area of the counties from
which returns of cotton ginned were
made, only at>out 1-11 was devoted to
the product um of cotton in 1911 and
1912, the figures afford some Idea of
the possibilities of cotton production
la the United States.
Practically the. entire production of
cotton in the United States is upland,
which includes a number of long
staple varieties. Only about 1-2 of
one per cent of the total cotton pro?
duction of 1912 was of the sea Island
variety and only 4.3 per cent was
Untere,
The sea Island crop of 1912 amount?
ed te 73,777 bales, or 28.180,000
pounds gross weight, and was less
than that of 1911 by 46.616 bales, or
31.1 per cent. With the S^Cgnilsa <?f
tho crop of 1006, the efO" of l'?12 was
the smallest produced sines the In?
auguration of the ginning reports of
the census bureau in 1899. A very
severe storm proved disastrous to the
crop in South Carolina In 1911, and
the production of that >
ed from 13.016 bales In ItSO, to |,?
119 In 1911. but Increased to 7.70'
bales la 1912.
While production of sea island ? ot
ten shows Variation? from r.7.660 run?
ning bales in 1906 to 112,293 In 1911.
thsye has been M Rem-tal tenden- \
toward an increase of this variety,
the amount in 1912 b? inr 73.771 run?
ning bales. The pro.I at lea of lint
era show a marked Increase from 114,
144 running hales in 'v< ? to 602,321
bales In 1912. This gain Is duo in
pert to the Increase In |hs ay dm tion
ton and hence of i.dtori seed
available for delintlng ,ausj in part
of th?. marked development hI.k o IH'.ii
of the . otr..ii ? ? . I i' i i. 11 i i i i idu-l i '
rsnultiriK In an Increase In the propof
Mori ..f t to- i.i.l ii n. < L,
and particularly in tto- . I .-. d.dint?
ing of the H^.-d r-.r tto- bettet separa?
tion of the meat from the hulM
The ewtiro miiiy of cotton
seed produced fr..m the crop of 191J
waa 6.106,000 less*, win. t? soMfjares,i
with 6.997.000 tons for the crop of
1911 of Ufti total for I ? I ?. t 4r? '.us
-?ii. or 76 per cent, wer? rhJrea bf
the uM mills, thus leaving; 1.62 f ,401
tons or St per cent. t. |d:itinic, ex
port and reeding und ??tto-r BO*|*SSSSJl
Tha prof .f I hg aeed tukn by
the oil mills from th. .r..p of 1 ?? 1 I
was 70 j..-r cent u -?iiioNNti.ii m ill. i
prop, rt Ion that In I'.HO.
The estimated value #?f the crop of
1914 ia itia.t3o.ooe. Vs ?laiptr '
with 1169,160,000 fog \$\\t |Mt,1t0,
. f"' '????. |<I2 ?., r,,r I'.,
IOtl.t3o.oiM* for .* .,?v, gjftt 1100,000,?
000 fur 1907 Thun thl. value of the I
rrup of |tlla , , , ,m..ic<i.
^00AOegi or ^r eeSji more than 'the
VstUfiate fr r |??M. noiwiihslatidlu'g the
fact tbat (he ipianiHN of l?o, cotton
etas \7 7, pei seat I W&lle tho
crop of 1911 was tho leargest ever
produced, and that of 1912 the sec?
ond In size, the crop of 1910 was the
most valuable.
The stlmated value of the cotton
crops of the five-year period ending
*ith 1912 is $4,226,970,000, while
the corresponding value for the five
year ported ending with 1899 was
$1,529,G00,000. During the last live
years the price of upland lint cotton
has averaged about 11.7 per cent per
pound, or nearly $60 per bale.
The crop of 1912 graded "middling
to strict middling." The average price
of upland cotton, which has been
computed from the New Orleans
market reports, has ranged from 8.20
cents in 1902 to 14.69 in 1910. For the
crop of 1912 it was 12.05 cents, which
Is 2.33 cents more than the average
for 1911 and 2.64 cents less than for
1910.
The average bale weight for the
crop of 1912, counting round as half
bales and including linters, ia 507.9
pounds gross, as compared with 504.1
pounds for 1911, 501.7 pounds for
1910 and 496.6 pounds for 1909.
The variation in the average weight
of bale for upland cotton put up in
square packages is pronounced
throughout the cotton belt, the aver?
ages ranging from less than 430
pounds for a number of counties in
Oeorgia and North Carolina to 560
pounds for counties in Mississippi,
Oklahoma and Texas.
OVFH FHODCtTION OF POTASH.
Cause? Values of Securities to Fall
and Industry hj at Serious Crisis.
South Carolina importers, mixers,
distributors and users of commercial
fertilisers have direct interest in the
present critical condition of the Ger?
man potash-producing syndicate, largo
quantities of its product being brought
to this State each year.
Daily Consular and Trade Reports
(Washington) of June 12 contains tho
following letter from Talbot J. Albert,
|Vnited States consul at Brunswick.
"All the German commercial news?
papers of Mav If, lilt, report a se?
rious financial crisis in the potash
Industry. The funded seeurites of the
leading mining companies Of the l'ot
ash syndicate, which had bOOO regard?
ed as gilt-edge and were selling at
high premiums, have falhm below DOT,
The obligations and stocks of Other
mining companies have Hallen, some
of them to more than one-half of
their former OjttOtOd valufe. A number
of newly established eopnpanies have
become insolvent. The cause of this
alarming condition Of 'th? industry is
01 erpindm tion.
The potash law passed two years
ago primarily for putting ,and end to
the OOS*?esMiims granted by certain
mining companies to American im?
porters a< complls/icd that object but
? foiled to limit the production of
pelfh. The allowance andrer the law
of sales QOOtan to new mining com?
panies entering on the sta>v of pro
duettoa led t<?i a rush on the part of
old < nmpnnlaj to ?ink boh shafts in
order to maintain their quotas and
to the. aatakdJiahmtBt Of a great many
new mining com ?anles. The OOflSO?
quonce has. i>?ton uverprodhictlon and
a general fJOltaPOt of the Industry. It
Will prohahfy lake BOVOrafl years to
oquallae the supply with the demand
for potanh. Legislation is now pend?
ing to arneo?l the potash law so as t<?
regulate tin- production, Unit so tar it
iias boon found Impracticable to frame
the aocahoary regulations.91
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St M M ir COTTON MAHKFT.
< orre* ?cd Dally My KnifMi M. I hid,
Cottsn llu>cr. \
Bumtefi July I, , ' i
Qood Illddllng 12 : x. \ j
st. Middling IS. I 1 l
mlodging it Ts. VI
si I mm Mlddllni i i 1 -L?. a
Ism Middling It 7-s. '
Siajd? cotton II 1-L' to It 1-1 for
whit ,? grades.
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MILITIA MAY SECURE ENCAMP?
MENT MONEY.
After Conference with Soutli Carolina
Delegation (Harrison Announces that
\Vur Department Will Issue Sup?
plies if Governor Muk? s Propw Ap?
plication.
Washington, June SO.?Gen. "Wille
Jones of Columbia and Col. Julius E.
Cogswell of Charleston came to
Washington today and Immediately
got in touch with the members of the
South Carolina delegation in congress
regarding the future of the militia
The senators, with several members
of the house, immediately held a
conference with Messrs. Cogswell and
J<?nes and afterwards went to see
Secretary Garrison about the matter.
The question of an encampment is
squarely up to the governor of South
Carolina! as, indeed, appears to be
the future of the South Carolina State
troops.
Senator Tillman said:
"The South Carolina delegation in
congress went to the war department
and after explaining the purpose of
our visit to Secretary Garrison and
talking over the whole situation, he
dictated the letter below. He was
courteous and pleasant, as he always
Is, and seemed desirious, as we know
he would be, to do anything that is
reasonable and lawful to accomplish
the purpose we had in view. In every
way he showed a willingness to do
whatever he could to bring about the
end we sought.
"Gen. Mills, who is in charge of the
militia division of the war depart?
ment, also seemed very anxious to
fat illtate the purpose for Which WS
went. Gen. Wills Jones and Col.
Cogswell of the South Carolina
militia, who were present, expressed
themselves as being highly pleased
with What was said ami done at the
(<?nference and at the results at?
tained."
The letter follows:
"June SO, 1913.
' lion. Benjamin it. Tillman, Hon. El?
lison I?. Smith (Senators from
South Carolina) ; Hon. R. S. Whah y,
Hon? James K Byrnes, Hon. Wyatt
Aiken. Hon. Joseph T. Johnson,
Hon. David E. Kinley, Hon. J. Wil
lard Kagsdale, Hon. Aahury Francis
Lever (Representatives from South
< Carolina)?
"Gentlemen: In pursuance of our
conference of today, held in the pres
Snee of Gen. Jones and Col. Cogs?
well, I am writing this letter to the
South Carolina delegation,
"There was handed to me, as you
know, at that interview, a communi?
cation fron? the governor addressed to
Gen. Jones and Col. Cogswell. A copy
of this was left with nie, and 1 here?
with attach a copy thereof. The only
interest that the war department has
in the matter is that the militia of
South Carolina shall do ttsosc things
which tite haw requires in order to
make It proper for me umletr the law
to extend the federal aid. As you
know, tids department did not order
lhs mustering out of any companies,
and does not now so order.
"As you know, certain companies
were found deficient in various par?
ticulars, and tin- adjutant general of
the state suggested Hie mustering of
them out as the only remedy, it Is
now proposed that these com pan lee,
alter tins warning, he given an oppor?
lunlty to show that they have profited
and are now in such condition as
Would make it proper for them to
continue in the service and pass in?
spection. I will do the following with
respect to the South Carolina sltua*
t ion:
"if the governor of South Carolina
u ill resume proper relations towards
this department bs a primer commu?
nication addressed to tlii-; department,
the militia of Booth Carolina will have
its transportation paid, to the extent
that federal aid Is med lot that pur
pose, to the various encampments
tlii ; summer. They v. ill have suh
, lence while there, paid under sim?
ilar conditions.
'The companies whileh passed tin
last Inspection will have their |oy
paid under similar cogidltlons, The
pay for tin1 deficient companies will
lie t < I ained.
' I he dellclenl ?.ipinnies \s ill bO
i i\ ii snothei npportui^lt) t<? meaHiire
up to the tost, at an inspection to be
held at least three months from this
date. If at that time they pass the
inspection, they wi'l then receive their
retained pay; that is, the pay retained
under the above proposition, If they
fail at that time, they will not re?
ceive their pay and they will not long?
er be considered as a basis for any
federal aid whatever. 1 am entirely
Willing to have this test made in the
way suggested and if your governor
will write me making tins sug?
gestion, i will Instruct the proper of?
ficers to see that tins is carried into
execution. You, of course, realize that
the governor of the State is the com?
mander in chief of its military forces,
and that I can do nothing against his
will and desire to extend federal aid
in case he will not do those things
which make it proper for me to ex?
tend federal aid. I can hardly be?
lieve, however, that lie will take an
attitude so unfortunate for the peo?
ple of South Carolina. In view of
the fact that I am informed that these
encampments are to bo very shortly
held, I would suggest that if you gen?
tlemen hope to carry out our sugges?
tion you have the communication
from the governor to me made very
promptly.
"Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) "Lindley M. Garrison,
"Secretary of War."
Upon being asked what he consid?
ered a "proper" letter, Senator Tin?
man said:
"I would prefer others to interpret
that language for themselves. 1 will
guess this, however:
"Gov. Mease, whether intentionally
or not, has caused the people at the
war department to have some bad
feeling towards the State of South
Carolina. Naturally so. His letters
have been published in our principal
State newspapers and those who have
read them know how offensive they
must have been to all army officers
who ever wore a blue uniform. He
seems to forget that the United States
is now our country as well as that of
the Yankees, and that we have a
Southern Democrat in the president's
Office for the first time in 50 years.
Only two days ago an appropriation
was passed by congress providing for
the payment of the expenses of the
Confederate and Federal veterans of
the District of Columbia to go to
Gettysburg, and that the commission
in ( barge of all arrangements and ex?
penditures consisted of the secretary
of war, a Confederate veteran and a
Federal veteran, thereby equal con?
sideration being given both Northern
and Southern armies.
"Secretary Garrison does not want
or expect an apology or explanation.
All he expects is a letter com bed in
respectful terms making a formal re?
quest from the governor of South
Carolina to the secretary of war for
these funds to be available for the
purpose of mobilizing the militia as
already agreed on and understood, and
to pay their camping expenses. He
does not care for any references to
he made to any communications that
have hitherto passed between the gOV
ernor of South Carolina ami his of?
fice."
SHOT IN CLARENDON. I
Convict Wounded by Guard Hies in
Penitentiary.
Columbia, .July 5.?Bright Mark, a
u? Kin serving a life sentence, died yes?
terday morning at the State peniten?
tiary is minutes after being entered
as a prisoner there. was wound?
ed several days ago in Clarendon
county when he tried to escape. Mack
was convicted more than a year ago
ami sent to the penitentiary. Later,
unc?er a court order, he w as returned
to Clarendon county for road worlt.
Last Friday in- made an attempt to
escape and was shot down by the
guards, on,* shot taking effect in fie*
right hip am! tin- other under the
right arm. He was brought to the
penitentiary yesterday on a stretcher.
He was placed on the table in the op?
erating loom and died In 0 few min?
utes.
We mop the brow of our coco apd
confesH in humility thai wc should not
have complained when we had June
Weathei thai did not ? all foi an rlee
tii' Ian. Wilmington Stai
HUNTING THE CROOKS.
LOBBY INVESTIGATORS HOT ON
THE \i:\V TRAIL.
Stock Operators, Wall Street Lawyers,
Manufacturers' Legislative Agents.
House Pages and Congrcs-.nicii Will
bo Summoned to Tell What They
li now.
Washington, June 29.?Investiga?
tion of lobby interests and lobbies by
the senate will be reopened Wednes?
day with a number of prominent Wall
street men oa witnesses. Chairman
Overman of the special committee de?
cided today after a talk with Presi
det Wilson and informal conferences
with his committee associates to re?
new activity at once instead of wait?
ing until July 8, as he had planned.
Claims of Martin M. Mulhall of
Baltimore that as lobbyist for the
National Association of Manufactur?
ers lie had lor years maintained * lose
relations with members of congress
and financed their campaigns for re?
election have so Intensified the feeling
in congressional circles that the I? bby
committee has determined to proceed
at once and to interrogate all persons
in connection with any of the recent
lobby disclosures.
Witnesses for Wednesday include
Paul Cravath and Lewis Casfl Led
yard, prominent New York attorneys,
and David Lamar, a Wall street finan?
cier. The investigation will centre
about the charges made recently by
ltobert s. Lovett of the Union Pacific
railroad that many New York finan?
ciers and lawyers had been approach?
ed over the telephone by lobbyists
and persons representing themselves
to be members of congress.
Until this branch of the inquiry is
disposed of, the committee probably
will not take up the more recent dis?
closures of Mr. Mulhall, which have
[thus far appeared only in newspaper
reproduction of Iiis personal statement
and facsimiles of letters he claims t<?
have received, containing referen? es
to the efforts to control and influence
members of congress. Mulhall is un?
der subpoena to appear July 8.
Steps already have been taken by
the committee to get possession of
the letters and papers Mr. .Mulhall
preserved, bearing upon his alleged
operations as a lobbyist. Subpoenas
were issued today for James A.
ECmery, whom Mulhall described in
his article as the "chief lobbyist" for
the National Association of Manufac?
turers at Washington; for J. P. Mc
Michael, former chief page of tin*
house, whom Mulhall is reported as
saying was in the employ of the
manufacturers' association ami for a
number of other persons named by
Mulhall as having been active in the
affairs of tin* association in connec?
tion with efforts to influence legisla?
tion or control elections to congress,
Demands from members of the
house for a separate investigation of
the Mulhall charges by a special
committee of that body were made in
many quarters today. Representa?
tive Sherley, named in the Mulhall
article as one whose support was ex?
pected on certain legislation, declared
the house should proceed at once
with its own Investigation. Resolu?
tions me expected al tin- session Wed?
nesday calling for a special commit?
tee of investigation. The senate com?
mittee has announced, however, that
it will not hesitate to go into every
phase <>f the Mulhall charges, includ?
ing efforts to Influence elections of
members of the house. Senate com
mlttee m< mbers believe they have
the necessary authority to go into
these features and if they don't lind
they have they will ask t..r add it
power from the senate.
A New Postal Policy.
There has probably never been a
more terrific arraignment oi the work
of any Cabinet olticer than is eon
talned in the report ot lb.m
mlttee of Post Ottlcc nflleers v. hi h
has just completed a minute e\
animation of the |>cpartmcnts' net
eral condlt ion. Post ma ler (lonei al
Hitchcock is not only a- rus< d ol
having deliberate!) undertaken to
dc.? ei\e Congrass aud the ?ounti.s Luto
belie> ing I hat he had mad." hifl I I
part men! self-supporting, hut he i
further charged with wrecking Ihe
postal service during his own ad
ministration aiui finally endeavoring
to obstruct ths work of his successor
to the limits of his ability.
These arc grave accusations and Mr.
Hitchqpek will And it no easy matter
to defend himself against them. We
do not believe that he can do so. The
investigation which has resulted in
this report was ordered by Postmaster
General Burlesoh only a.fter much
urging and with extreme reluctance.
Two of the live men who signed the
report. Second Assistant Postmaster
General Joseph A. Stewart and Chief
[Clerk Iferltt O. chance, are Repnb
licana The former held under Mr.
Hitchcock the same position he now
holds. The latter was until recently
secretary of President Taft's Commis?
sion on Economy and Efficiency, and
prior to that he was auditor for the
Post Office Department. The other
three Investigators were Daniel C.
Roper, A. M. Dockery and James I.
Blakslee, respectively First, Third and
Fourth Assistant Postmasters Gener?
al.
The report <?f this non-partisan
committeee declares unanimously and
unequivocally "that the postal service
is not self-supporting, and has aot
been BO since lSs.1; that a fictitious
appearance of surplus was obtained by
incorrect methods of accounting,
Which improperly compared cash re?
ceipts with incomparable and insuffi?
cient totals of disbursements; that
the policy of straining every effort to
effect an apparent surplus depleted
the efficiency of the service and in?
jured its morale; that just before the
present administration took office this
policy was suddenly reversed with the
effe< t of throwing over upon the new
administration greatly increased ex?
pense and long-time obligatons.
It is clearer than ever in the light
of these findings that it is an ex?
tremely difficult task which has fallen
to the lot of Mi. Burleaon. During
'the last two months of the old Ad?
ministration the whole Department,
from one end of it to the Other, was
driven under whip and spur with the
view of tlelng up matters in such a
way t hat the new Administration
would be embarrassed as much as
possible. Mr. Burleaon found, says
the Washington correspondent of the
New York Evening Post, that "the
only appointments In the Department
Within Iiis gift were those of chief
clerk and his own private secretary;
every vacancy had been tilled and
every possible promotion made within
a short time before he took charge."
And yet there are Republican organs
which have been trying for months
to picture the Democrats as the pa?
tronage grabbers.
- The hope of the situation lies in
tiie policy to which the new Post?
master General has committed him?
self and which lie declares he will
steadfastly enforce, Mr. Hurleson be?
lieves in economy but even more
strongly la he of the conviction that
"the thing of first importance is ef?
ficiency; that the people may have
the best possd.le serv ice from the pos?
tal service system.' We are not Bure
that the Postmaster General is right
when he adds "they will not stand for
waste of course." We wish that were
so, but they have stood for S long
time for outrageous abuses of tiie ser?
vice on the part of members of Con?
gress. Nevertheless, Mr. Burleaon >*
wholly correct in the ^ ?sertlon that
the people " are more interested la
good service than they are in any
technical showing of surplus espe?
cially if thtt showing Is not Justified
by the t o is ot legitimate accounting '*
j We Indieve that the postal service ran
be made t?. pay. The public think so.
Hut a*hether it does or not Is of sec?
ondary Importance. The deficits have
never been chargeable to the legiti?
mate operation of the postal System
and the postal system should not be
made to Sllffer bec.iuse t,| | possdde
deficit.??News and Courier.
Sewer Line on Law Hang?'.
The work of a sewer line has been
commenced on Law Range, the i
cn vat Ion having been made for aba
half the distance already. The wo
was ordered b\ Council Bevel
months ago, ami the pipe was order
ai the same lime, it lias arrived old
recenth and the force of city ban
were put to Work on the Job t iK
a w u \