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Show COTTON CKCP - WORTH A BILLION RICHMOND, Va May When . President D. Y: Cooper of -Henderson, S. C , opesed ths fifteenth annual coo-vsstion coo-vsstion of tbe Americaa Cotton Maan-farturera' Maan-farturera' asaoelatiea hers today fully half of ita membership wss in attendance-. The cotton schedule' - of tko " Payse-Aldnch tariff act ia ths topis of greatest interest to coma before the eonveatioB. President Cooper la hia aanual ad-drees ad-drees urged tha aseeeeity of the south to raise cotton to meet tha increasiag demand- of ths -ssssofaeturers. "The crop of 1910 11 will, be worth $1,000,000,000," bs said, "or twies aa much aa tha output of all the gold nines of the world-com bi ssd for ths ssms- year. While ths Banker of pindlea and acreage have increased enormously the production of Americaa cottoa haa declined." .' |