Cotton gins in Dawson County have wrapped up operations for the 2019-2020 season, but the USDA’s cotton classing office in Lamesa will remain in operation for a bit longer. The final gin still operating in Dawson County shut down for the season last Saturday. According to the Lamesa Press-Reporter’s weekly survey of 10 area gins, an estimated 178,241 bales of cotton produced in Dawson County were ginned here this year. That is only a rough estimate, however, as many of the gins themselves can readily only estimate how much of the cotton they handled was produced within Dawson County and how much was ...