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Title: The Fabric of Civilization
A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 5, 2009 [EBook #29048]

Language: English

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[Illustration: GUARANTY TRUST CO'S COTTON PRICE CHART.
_Spot Prices, New York, Middling Uplands_]

The Fabric of Civilization

A Short Survey
of the Cotton Industry in the
United States

Guaranty Trust Company of New York
140 Broadway

FIFTH AVENUE OFFICE MADISON AVENUE OFFICE
Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street Madison Avenue and 60th Street

LONDON OFFICES LIVERPOOL OFFICE
32 Lombard Street, E. C. 27 Cotton Exchange Buildings
5 Lower Grosvenor Pl., S. W.

PARIS OFFICE HAVRE OFFICE BRUSSELS OFFICE
1 and 3 Rue des Italiens 122 Boulevard Strasbourg 158 Rue Royale

COPYRIGHT, 1919

GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK

The cotton industry touches the lives of
the vast majority of the peoples of the
earth. The ensuing survey does not pretend
to cover the field in all its diversity. It
aims to give, in brief compass, such
general facts concerning the industry in
the United States as may enable the reader
quickly to familiarize himself with its
broader outlines.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I The Importance and Power of Cotton 5
II Where Cotton is Grown and Spun and Why 10
III The Raw Cotton Market 17
IV The Cloth Market 27
V Financing Cotton and Cotton Cloth 33
VI American Cloth in Foreign Markets 38
VII Some of the Grower's Problems 41
VIII In the Cotton Mi