Madras Versus America: A Handbook to Cotton Cultivation, Exhibiting Contents of Public Records in a Condensed Form, in Accordance with the Resolution of the Government of India
Madras Versus America: A Handbook to Cotton Cultivation, Exhibiting Contents of Public Records in a Condensed Form, in Accordance with the Resolution of the Government of India
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...famous sample of Tinnevelly Cotton equal Court ofDj. t0 American, was of course sent home to July, 1849. the Court of Directors, and by them trans(ubm? mitted to Mr-Aspinall Turner, the President of the Commercial Association of Manchester. The result fully confirmed what had been already stated by Dr. "Wight and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...famous sample of Tinnevelly Cotton equal Court ofDj. t0 American, was of course sent home to July, 1849. the Court of Directors, and by them trans(ubm? mitted to Mr-Aspinall Turner, the President of the Commercial Association of Manchester. The result fully confirmed what had been already stated by Dr. "Wight and the Madras Chamber. In a letter from Mr-Turner to Dr. Royle the following judgment was passed: --"I may say, generally, that the Cotton sent by Mr. Finnie, grown from Native seed, is very much the same as we have been in the habit of receiving for years past from Madras. You are aware that it has not entered largely into consumption in this country; and I can only repeat emphatically, what I have often asserted before, that it is a perfect delusion in Mr. Finnie or any one else supposing that such Cotton will ever pass off to the spinners of Lancashire as a substitute for American Cotton. It has nothing to recommend it, except being of a bright clear colour; the staple is miserably short. The Brokers' report (Corrie and Co.) states that it has been destroyed in cleaning; but I doubt if it ever had much staple. The samples of American seed Cotton are very different, and are valued by the Brokers at 18 per cent. more than the others." Such was the brilliant achievement that closed the third season of Mr. Finnie's career. 203 Fourth season, 1848-49: proposed extension of plantMr. Finnie's TMfi operations.--The fourth season of Mr. Ma'iaB I'i1111!6's operations at Tinnevelly opened Vari Return with a bold-representation, and two equally (1857), p. 29a. bold propositions. He represented that his labours in effecting an improvement in Native Cotton were of such vast importance, that he could no longer attend to the cultivation of American C...
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