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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset30634 and id is 1 raw text is: 58TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. J DOCUMENT 3d Session. No. 216. STATISTICS BEARING 'UPON THE GINNING OF COTTON. LETTER FROX THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR TRANSMITTING A REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS AS TO THE GINNING OF COTTON IN CERTAIN STATES. JAiuARY 11, 1905.-Referred to the Committee on the Census and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, January 11, 1905. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the report of the Director of the Census, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted January 9, 1905, calling for certain information regarding the reports of the ginners of cotton compiled and published by the Bureau of the Census. Very respectfully, V. H. METCALF, Secretary.. The SPEARi OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, Washington, -D. C., January 11, 1905. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith, in accordance with your instructions, and for transmission to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a report covering the information asked for in resolution No. 415, adopted by that body on January 9, 1905, as follows: Resolved, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, requested to direct the Director of the Census to furnish to the House at once for its consideration the following information, to wit: First. The amount of cotton reported to be ginned in each of the counties of the United States to the respective dates of his reports during the present cotton season. Second. The amount of cotton ginned by each ginnery in the following counties, giving in each case the file number of each ginnery and its location in the county, to wit: Williamson county and Ellis county, in Texas; Yazoo county and Hinds county, in Mississippi; Bibb county &pd Washington county, in Georgia; Barbour county and Dallas county, in Alabama; Lonoke county and Phillips county, in Arkansas; Mecklenburg county and Robeson county, in North Carolina; Orangeburg county and Marlboro county, in South Carolina; Shelby county and Madson county, in Tennessee; Greer county and Payne county, m Oklahoma; Jefferson county and Jackson county, in Florida; Caddo parish and Rapides parish, in Louisiana; district Numbered Twenty-one of the Chickasaw nation, and district Numbered Six of the Cherokee nation, in the Indian Territory. The data regarding the cotton ginned to the several dates of the census reports are submitted in two parts, each of which contains a complete report on each of the two paragraphs of the resolution. Accompanying them, I have the honor to transmit also a copy of Table 9 of Census Bulletin No. 10, in which the cotton production for the last five years has been distributed by counties; also maps of the principal cotton producing states upon which the crop of 1903, expressed in 500-pound bales, is shown by counties. These additional data appear to be a necessary supplement to the information called for by the resolution in order that a comparison by counties of the crop of 1904, so far as reported by the census, may be made with the crops of the past five years. Very respectfully, S. N. D. NORTH, Director. The SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.

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