COTTON 
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5. Jacquard Fabrics: — Included in this class are 
the most complicated forms of fancy fabrics. They 
are also used for cloths suitable for making shirt 
waists, dress goods, bed spreads, table covers, 
and novelties. 
While cotton is used for many other purposes as 
thread and underwear, the greater part of it goes 
into such commercial goods as have been mentioned 
here. 
RELATIVE VALUES IN COTTON MANUFACTURING 
Of course plain weaving, since it requires less 
skill and involves less complication than other 
forms, possesses the least commercial value. 
Sheeting may be taken as an example. It sells 
for five cents a yard, although only one pound of 
cotton is required to make three or four or even 
five yards of cloth — depending upon the weight. In 
this respect then, a pound of cotton bought at ten 
cents a pound is sold, when manufactured, at 
eighteen or twenty cents a pound. 
On the contrary, embroidery, one of the highest 
forms of cotton goods manufactured, sells at 
twenty dollars a pound. The skill required in its 
manufacture, the complications of the various 
processes, have made from a single pound of cot- 
ton (of the best quality, of course) a pound now 
worth twenty dollars. All other cotton goods on 
the market have a commercial value ranging in 
price from that of the lowest grade of sheeting to 
that of the highest forms of embroidery. 
WHAT A POUND OF COTTON WILL MAKE 
Cotton weaving yarns are made and sold by 
the pound. The finer the threads, the greater the 
