Show I Cotton Consumed South Sout The consumption of nt cotton In Southern South- South em ern cotton coton mills mis begins to bear a large I proportion to the total consumed in tn the United States and Canada Canada Mr Hester 7 of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange f reported for example a taking by Southern mills In 1901 up to t December of bales as against bales taken by Northern and Canadian spinners The gain over the preceding year in Southern takings was over OOOO bales This is IR as it should be Cotton can be best manufactured where it i is grown and at the largest profits In periods of high prices badly- badly located mills mills mills-mills mis mills far from the cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton fields fields can can continue to run but in hard times they will wm be frozen out by inability to compete with mills mis down V South Thus little by little the logic of the situation will wU compel the transference transference trans trans- ference of the cotton industry to the South Baltimore Sun I I |