Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 35 | Plenty of Egyptian Cotton for Tires

PLENTY OF EGYPTIAN COTTON FOR TIRES The embargo on imports of Egyptian cotton for use in automobile tire, airplane and balloon fabric and the limitation of the imports to 80,000 bales for the current year will not seriously hamper American manufacturers. The southwestern states, in which, since 1912, production of Egyptian Egyp-tian cotton has risen threefold, will yield close to 50,000 bales. It is believed that eventually importation of this product will cease altogether, as American plantations plan-tations increase their yield. Careful analyses and spinning tests by the department of agriculture, remove all question as to the quality of the American Amer-ican product, which has been found to be the equal in every respect of the foreign cotton. ! 1