found: Work cat: Supima, world's finest cottons, [198-?]:unnumbered p. 4 (development of Pima cotton; by 1924, production of Sea Island cotton had virtually ceased ... in the early 1900's, due to climate and long growing seasons, extra-long staple cotton was produced in Arizona; in 1912, the first commercial crop of Pima cotton (named after the local Indians) was harvested in the Yuma area and the Salt River Valley; by 1917, Pima cotton was Arizona's most important crop)
found: Webster's new collegiate dictionary, c1973:p. 871 (pima cotton; a cotton that produces fibers of exceptional strength and firmness and that was developed in the southwestern U.S. by selection and breeding of Egyptian cottons)
found: The Pima cotton boom, viewed online Dec. 28, 2014(overall demand for Pima cotton fell; in 1954, its farmers branded it with the term Supima (a combination the words of "Superior" and "Pima"))
found: CALCOT online, Dec. 28, 2014(Pima cotton; American Pima cotton, like Egyptian cotton, is an Extra-Long Staple (ELS) cotton (the term "staple" refers to fiber length.) All cotton has a staple: Upland cottons tend to be classified as short to medium staple, which is an inch to an inch and three-sixteenths long; SJV Acala is a long staple, or inch and an eighth; and Pima is an extra long staple, an inch and seven-sixteenths. Anything longer than an inch and three-eighths is considered ELS))
