Cotton
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We offer cotton. No one knows exactly how old cotton is. Scientists searching caves in mexico found bits of cotton bolls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old. They also found that the cotton itself was much like that grown in america today.
In the indus river valley in pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun and woven into cloth 3,000 years bc. At about the same time, natives of egypt’s nile valley were making and wearing cotton clothing.
The gin made it possible to supply large quantities of cotton fiber to the fast-growing textile industry. Within 10 years, the value of the u.s. Cotton crop rose from $150,000 to more than $8 million.
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