Dallas Cotton Exchange Building

Dallas Cotton Exchange Building

The Dallas Cotton Exchange Building was a 17-story tan brick and concrete building on the corner of North St. Paul and San Jacinto Streets in downtown Dallas, Texas. It was built in 1926 and was for decades Dallas' second-tallest, as the city was growing into the largest inland cotton market in the U. S. By 1971, though the city had become the financial capital of the cotton industry, the exchange housed more Baptists than brokers because of offices rented to nearby First Baptist Church. By 1987 the building sat vacant.

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1958 Cotton Bowl Classic

The 1958 Cotton Bowl Classic was the 22nd edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, January 1. Part of the 1957-58 bowl game season, it matched the independent and fifth-ranked Navy Midshipmen and the #8 Rice Owls of the Southwest Conference (SWC). Slightly favored, Navy won 20-7.

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about cotton shrinkage?

You need to explain this to your supervisor and ask what customers should be told. It's not fair to put you in the position of not knowing. It's a reasonable question, and you should be familiar with the merchandise. Some manufacturers will market items as "pre-shrunk" or "no-shrink". Sometimes you can tell by reading the tag--if it says to avoid hot water or an automatic dryer, or even to tumble dry on a low or medium setting, you can be pretty sure the garment will shrink. The truth is that almost all cotton, even so-called "pre-shrunk," tends to shrink more or less with intense heat over time. The hotter the water used, the longer the high-heat drying cycle, the more shrinkage. But it also depends on the tightness of the fabric's weave. Jeans are known for shrinking in length, which is a permanent change, and also shrinking in width, although they often "stretch out" again with wear. Gauzy cottons tend to shrink less than knit cottons. You should suggest to your supervisor that first-hand knowledge is the most persuasive way to inform a consumer, so that if you can say, "I've washed this a half-dozen times and it's been fine" or "You can expect it to shrink about a size, so you will want to go up one."

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Growth in cotton farming and agriculture

Until widespread use of the cotton gin, short-staple cotton had been such an arduous crop to grow and process because of the time-consuming process of removing the sticky seeds from each of the individual boles of cotton. This process took so long that it was nearly unprofitable to grow cotton. The increased ease of cotton production due to access to the Cotton Gin, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which used teeth to comb through the fluffy fibers and remove all of the seeds in a much more efficient manner, led to a major rise in the production of cotton in the south near North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Production increased from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850, earning the south the nickname King Cotton for its success. Matthew T. Gregg writes that "According to the 1835 Cherokee census enumerators, 1,707,900 acres in the Cherokee Nation in Georgia were tillable. " This land was valuable farming land, with the ideal climate and the necessary 200 frost-free days for growing cotton, and would have been crucial in supporting the cotton industry's monumental growth, as would have increased ease of transportation due to railroads. The Cherokee Indians typically grew small family farms and only planted what was needed to survive alongside hunting and gathering. Some, however, heeded Silas Dinsmoor's advice. They took advantage of the growing demand for cotton and began to farm it themselves, asking for cotton cards, cotton gins, and spinning wheels from the United States Government. As immigration increased rapidly throughout the 1820s and 1830s, and by 1850 approximately 2.6 million people immigrated to the United States, the government saw that the land could be used for more than just small family crops and could provide a source of income for the farmers immigrating to the south and needing farmable land. The Cherokees that did farm cotton in excess for selling became a threat to the settlers that were hoping to capitalize on the cotton industry by taking away not only valuable farm land but also adding more cotton to the market which could reduce the demand and the price, thus prompting the pursuit of a removal treaty