The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-10-14
FACTORIES in ORANGE. &c.


FACTORIES IN ORANGE. 6e. |
A travelling correspondent Of The sOulhemer,
Published in Richmond. Va, makes the follow
ing notice u the FACTORIES IN this county, and Of
some Of the localities Of Marlborough snd.its "
einily.
The water power in Orange County and I,
the counties adjoining, i very rnnsIdera-
BILE. and Tor Merchant Mills. Saw and
GrisI Mills, de-, II has beea employed 10
q very considerable extent. There are.
in this county alone, so mills al various
kinds, 0peraledby water power, ,ndepend
enl of the factories. The following Ii.I
nl Cotton Factories near The place, may
be something new 10 some of yau:
Cane tt,eek Factory, 20 feet fall of
water, 1000 spindles, consumes per week
5000 lbs. cation, making 1900 yards
brown goods. and 2,i0O lbs. yarn per
week. Cspital $4,000. -
I Milton t'oli,n Factory, 1900 spindles.
employs 20 hands, makes cotton ozna.
burgs and yarn. Cost s6O.O0O, and has
steam 10 assist the water power. -.
High Falls Factory, 500 spindles, con.
sumes per week 800 lbs. cotton, has 20
hands, and l2 feet wafer fall.
Mount Ararat Factory. Ifaw River.
runs 500 spindIes, consumes per week
1900 lbs. cotton, and has 20 hands.
Newlin's Factory. just being erected
on Hsw River, 100 feet long by IS wide.
8 stories high, with basement, competent
10 run $500 spindles. aud to consume per
week 1900 lbs. cotton.
Alamsnce Factory. owned by Messrs.
Holt a. Carfigan, consumes per week 5,
! 400 lbs. cotton, has 400 spindles, and
. spins about 5000 lbs. cotton yarn PEI
week. Requires annually $4,000 70
|, operate il, and has IS operatives.
. There is also IN course Of erection a
Milton, IS miles from llillsborough, FAC
/, inry designed Tor making shawls, hand
kerchiefs, counierpanes, &c. This is OF
! small scale, bul for the South il may b
!, regarded as decided novelty. tI,inl
! that North Carolina is about waking q
n to The importance OF using ihe natural IA
: cili,ics which she possesses, and showin
= 10 her sister states lhai although she la
i been somewhat iardy an this subject, sh
10 now willing and able to enter fully IN
! to the work OF developing her natural r,
. sources, and placing herself side by sid
II with Those states which have heretofoi
|, boas,ed OF their rapid march 10 power an
: greatness.
!. think tina, the people Of Hillshorong
j. ought to press upon the Legislature
Il North Carolina The propriety Of erectIr
= suitable monument to Governor Burk
u one of the fret Governors Of the stat
. whose remains lie deposited in an old tie
70 near The town, without a stone 10 ma
. the spot. lie served the state 10 her j
=, fancy, and under many disrouragemel
N incident 10 her earlier history, conducts
" her affairs with wisdom and discretIo
-, And il would be at leas, mark ofrespt
i. Ia his memory, and in keeping with .
i. curren, feeling Of the people. for The ST;
10. 10 place monumen, by which TO indie,
I'M. MY tue spt WuSfC tCPoSe NHc 'S"oaS
.. him who had been her friend aud Gu
,s. Magistrate.
-. The remains ofthe father and moth
= Of Mr.. Benton, Senator from Missouri,
~. two miles from Hllsborough. gil. "
;.s Il is fact. ! suppose. not genera
let known, that Mrs clay. lady of'he ILL
he Henry Clay,) was born nearly in sight
49, Hillsborough, and from thence remos
80 20 to Hagerstown, Md, where she resit
~, until she was grown, and then remo'
So to Kentucky. where she was united
! marriage 10 a young lawyer whose hi
-, es, title was " The Mill Boy Of the Sla
,ns es," but who has since ou.s.ripped all
nf competitors in the road To greatness. j;
.,so now stands forth under the weight
nnr three.score years, the brightest je
ar. which decks The intellectual conslellal
!, of Americas star which, when it s.
oct. be extinguishe,l in death, will cause a
rer. ton 10 weep at the departure Of one wh
.l.- deepest soliritude was the welfare Of
md country; and even his enemies. ii he
,elv auv, will drop tear when they learn
ons Henry Clay is no more. % ->s'@ F. J.
io'e SPIRIT OP YANKEE LAND. A..