41. Nearly half of the SP Fleet was lettered for subsidiary Cotton Belt , but an even hundred were directly Southern Pacific. 42. Many former SSW locomotives are used by Union Pacific today, although few still sport unmodified " Cotton Belt " paint. 43. Roundup Ready cotton was introduced and planted on 850, 000 acres across the U . S . cotton belt this year. 44. The crop, the third largest ever, benefited from rains in Texas during August and favorable harvest weather across the cotton belt . 45. In 1912, after years of fundraising by devoted Methodists in the North Carolina cotton belt , the college opened with 40 students. 46. The Cotton Belt corridor plans continued to generate controversy right up to the day of the vote on the 2030 plan. 47. Thriving from the cotton trade and associated business, Clarksdale soon earned the title " The Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt ". 48. "Four generations ago, black men like us were enslaved, " he said, his oratory part Cotton Belt preacher, part New Age prophet. 49. Planting begins as early as February, in South Texas, and as late as June in the northern area of the Cotton Belt . 50. Those rights would give Burlington Northern Santa Fe access to track in such locations as the lucrative Cotton Belt line through East Texas.
