Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . he United States in 1910 isindicated on the accompanying map. Localities producing upland cottononly are represented by horizontal lines, and those producing sea-island orboth sea-island and upland cotton by barred lines. (See Plate i.) Development of cotton growing.—The early development of this industrywas very slow, the first samplet of American cotton being sent to Englandin 1739, or 1
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . he United States in 1910 isindicated on the accompanying map. Localities producing upland cottononly are represented by horizontal lines, and those producing sea-island orboth sea-island and upland cotton by barred lines. (See Plate i.) Development of cotton growing.—The early development of this industrywas very slow, the first samplet of American cotton being sent to Englandin 1739, or 118 years after its introduction in Virginia. Several bags wereexported from Charleston in 1747, but it was not until 1753 that there wassufficient interest manifested in the industry to call forth a cotton that year a citizen of Delaware offered £4 ($20) for the most cottonand the best cotton off one acre. The small demand for this fibre wasa drawback to the culture, the market price being frequently less than theexpense of growing, gathering and preparing it. There were no adequateimplements for cultivating and harvesting, but the greatest obstacle was a PLATE I—Cultivation of Cotton. 1. Cultivation. 2. Cultivation. 3. Unopened Roll (Uplmul Cotton). 4. Mature Cotton Boll. 5. Cotton Field. G. Cotton Plant. American Upland. 7. Cotton Plant, American Sea Island Asiatic Area. JAMES H LAMB Co. OF THE UNITED STATES 3 scarcity of labor. The following record of shipments to Liverpool in 1770is interesting: Ten bales of cotton from Charleston, three bales fromNew York, four bags from Virginia, and three barrels from NorthCarolina. In 1784 some fourteen or fifteen bales were shipped to England,and eight of these were seized in Liverpool as being improperly entered,on the ground that so much cotton could not have been grown in theAmerican Colonies. After the Revolutionary War, however, the develop-ment was more rapid, as in 1701 the United S
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