That demand amounted in the first two months of the present calendar year t9 more than $6.000.000. and it is being maintained at a rate without example in the commercial history of the country. so that for the current fiscal year our exports of manufactured cottons will probably exceed in value $30.000.000. or fully $6.000.000 more than in 1900. the most prosperous of any of the preceding years. Of this export demand 60 per cent is represented by our sales to China. and it is on the continuance and increase of these sales that the prosperity of the cotton industry. not only of South Carolina but of the whole United States. absolutely depends. That this fact is keenly appreciated in business circles in the North as well as in the South was strikingly demonstrated at the recent hearings before the Committee on Immigration. on which occasions there were present representatives of the cottonmanufacturing interests of both sections. and of many other commercial and business interests as wellmen from the North like Messrs. Charles S. Hamlin. of the Boston Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce.
Keywords matched
Immigration