Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Cotton Manufacture. [ARTICLE]

Cotton Manufacture.

The cotton manufacturing capacity of the country could be safely doubled if the means of rapid distribution of manufactures to all parts of the earth existed. The country now makes up into cloth only 1,400,000 bales of its raw cottou. It exports from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bales annually, and this large surplus might as well be manufactured here ns anywhere, and, in fact, should be. There can be no large addition to the manufacturing resources of the country, however, until first-class steam lines are started to South America, Africa and the East Indies so as to open up new markets for American goods. To manufacture on a much larger scale now, without a wider market, would be ruin. With good steam lines, operated iu the interest of the United States, an increase of production iu all parts of the country could safely and profitably be undertoken, and as many more cotton mills could be built ns exist now, to the great advantage of the country. — Near York Tribune.