Cotton Values in Textile Fabrics: A Collection of Cloth Samples, Arranged to Show the Value of Cotton, When Converted Into Various Kinds of Cloth ... Into Various Kinds of Cloth (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Contrasted with this valuation, is shown what the same half million bales would bring if manufactured into goods like the samples, at normal average prices.

The cheapest sample shown is duck, worth fourteen cents per pound. Half a million bales of cotton in this shape would bring thirty-five million dollars, or nearly two and a half times its value in the raw state. The whole crop of the country, say eleven mil lion bales, ii manufactured into this goods and sold at this price, would show a gain over the raw price of over four hundred million dollars, or over five dollars per capitafor all the people of the Continental United States.

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