Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Communicating the Report of John Claiborne, Special Agent Appointed to Collect Statistics on the Consumption of Cotton in Europe, 1858
Sir: A recent appropriation having been made by Congress "to enable the Commissioner of Patents to collect and report information in relation to the consumption of cotton in the several countries of the world," you have been selected to aid in carrying out the objects of that appropriation.
To render the desired information more reliable and complete, it has been judged expedient that you should visit different portions of Europe; and, as it is important that the result of your investigations should be laid before Congress at an early day of its next session, it will be necessary that you should commence your labors with the least possible delay.
Time will not permit you to visit all the countries in the world where cotton is consumed, nor would such a course be expedient if it were practicable. You will probably be able to extend your personal observations to the most important points in England, France, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Prussia, and perhaps some of the other countries of Europe. You will here find sources of information extending to all quarters of the globe, and which will be sufficient to satisfy the present expectations of Congress.
Though the consumption of cotton abroad is the great subject of inquiry, your attention should not be limited too narrowly to that one point. It is evidently the intention of Congress to ascertain all facts which have a bearing, either directly or indirectly, upon that matter. The ultimate design is to benefit the cotton producing and cotton manufacturing interest of the United States.
Whatever will tend to this end is a subject of practical importance, and is recommended to your earnest and careful attention.
The traffic in this commodity, its manufacture, and even its production in foreign countries, have a bearing upon its consumption, either present or prospective, and all facts relating to any of these matters will be within the proper scope of your inquiries.
Perhaps the clearest and most intelligible course of investigation will be suggested by an attempt to trace a bale of cotton from the time it leaves the plantation of the producer till it reaches the hands of the ultimate consumer.
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