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The following table shows the number of counts usually ob- 

 tained from a pound of lint of the several types of cotton: 



Table Showing Number of Counts in Different Types of Cotton 



Type Number of counts 



Short staple upland 30- 60 



Long staple upland ...... 50- 80 



Peruvian 40-70 



Egyptian 70-250 



Sea island 100-400 



Linters 8-10 



479. Manufactories. In 1901 there were in the United States 

 1,055 establishments for the manufacture of cotton exclusive of 

 hosiery and knit goods. The valuation of the products, in- 

 cluding custom work and repairing, of these manufactories at 

 that date was in round numbers 339 million dollars. The aver- 

 age value of imports of cotton manufactures during 1901-05 was 

 $47,122,800, as against average exports to the value of $31,333,- 



375- 1 



Of spindles in operation September first, 1905, there were 23,- 

 850,000 as against 16,100,000 the same date in 1895. The aver- 

 age percentage of the commercial crop taken by United States 

 mills has been for the years 1901-05 a trifle more than 36 per 

 cent. The statistics of the factory supply, number of spindles 

 and mill consumption of cotton by countries were as shown in 

 table on page 378. 2 



In the United States the number of spindles in the northern 

 states was 15,865,790, while in the southern states it was 8,211,- 

 734. The increase in the number of spindles in five years was 

 12 per cent, in the northern and 108 per cent, in the south- 

 ern states. 



1 Dept. Com. and Labor, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1905, 

 pp. 441, 655, 656. 



2 Dept. Com. and Labor, Bureau Census Bui. No. 40 (1906), p. 56. 



