Show COTTON AND CHINA the cotton producers of the south are watching tho open door in china bilte the same concern as did th e silver miners prior to turn to ui open mints in india for signs of property or adversity within the last few years the trade with he chinese in coarse brown and drills has been a most important factor in sustaining the american manufacturers of cot iton goods the wool and cotton reporter comment ingin this trade with china says it be remembered that two weeks ago we showed that of the million yards more of cotton goods we bad exported in the ten months ending with april than in the corre bonding pon ding period of the preceding year ill but 34 million yards had gone to china for the eleven months ending with may the increase is million yards and million yards or all but 41 million yards likewise have gone la 16 china but even these figures satisfactory as they are do not bring out the story in its most convincing relief we must turn to the month of may itself and to uncolored cottons alone for it is only in the mar for hose that china really makes itself felt in may 1904 we sold only 4 12 million yards of these goods to china in may of this year it was near r sl 12 1 2 million yards and there ere only about 19 million yards in that month exported to any other country so the chinese trade has come to liean indescribably more to our cotton malls than our people can imagine jt Is honestly a question whether the prosperity which is so pronounced among those who make the coarse goods would exist but tor this trade there are many people well informed too who believe that mills have been built altogether too fast in this country and thai a serious problem has i been raised to dispose of their product satisfactorily |