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Show Cotton Looms In the Houth, It was said some your ago thtt New Tnglaud co jld never compete with Old I In gland In tbo manufacture of tuo finer grade of e.ot'.on gooils. Yet In all but tho finest of dree material IS'cw Fug land now luakua Utter col ton fabric! than Old Fngland. InCUnaour whita goods aro preferred to thoso of nroio. The Mtuie story Is repeated In rtf crt uca to tbo competition betHcea New l.u land aud the south. New l'ngland man nfactnrcr aay that tbo soutliem inllli can neter equal thoMi of the north in tho finer grades of cotton textile, Tho south thereupon rejond, "We ahall wn." Now Kugland luauufactur era put forward oa an advantage that cannot bo overcome tlio fact that their mill aru near to tho coiuumera. On the other hand, aonthcrn manufacturer answer that tlulr mills aro outlier cry ground It If whero tie cotton la produced. pro-duced. Cheap fuel Hot all about these mills and labor 1 cheaper, Tlio coat of a bale of cotton to tbu manufacturer by the time It reaehci Lowell from Savs n-nah n-nah Is within two eents of forty-six dollars. dol-lars. The coat of a bale of cotton at the local mills in tho aoutb. la Ihe dollar leu than this. Iu counting the ret of Ihe raw mate riil id ohm u southern mill consuming 5,000 bales annually an be operated for $2 j.OOO Icsa than a mill of tho same capacity ca-pacity lu tho north, Tli-in, ox u southern south-ern journal uuUtuhlnjl) remarks, the south m mill has tho adiautago of "lower tatuM nud, In tuo majority of In fctanc ft, entire exemption from tav" llil last firms enough to tempt tho iorthrn umuufActurcr to iuoo hi tnlMssutUu. |