The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-06-02
mississippi Manufacturing Company,

Il46O oAPPA
An intelligent and discriminating gentleman
from this county, last week, visited the factory
of this Company in Choctaw county, and has
obligingly furnished us with the following re-
suits of his observation. We notice from our
exchanges that manufacturing is now exciting
an unusual share Of attentionin the South, and
Of consequence, the result Of practical expert
ment must be highly interesting to all who
have directed their attention in that channel'
The Mississippi Manufacturing Company was
chartered at the last session of the Legislature,
with a capitalof $2O,O 900 and the privilege of
increasingly to $4,000.
1t has but fairly got under way, yet
the Company now has 500 spindles in opera
ton, which consume daily 300 pounds raw cot
ton, which turn out 28O pounds Of spun thread
The cost of the cotton daily consumed is SIS
other expenses l0--making thetotal expense
per day S25. At the present price of the man.
ufactured article (twenty Cents) the whole
produc Of the spindles is fifty dollars per day
giving a nett profit per day Of $25. This is
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an extraordinary prOft-more We are sure than
any other branch of busin ess in one country
can Weld. Twelve white operatives are al
ready in the factory, and at cheaper rates, says
the Superintendent, than can be procured IN The
North. An unlimited number Of operatives
may be procured-far exceeding fac demand.
The engine of this establishment was P%urchas-
ed in Rhode Island, and is propelled by eighty
horse power. The company Themselves are
manufacturing machinery to complete the es-
adjustments, with the exception OF looms,
which are being prepared in the North. From
these they expect to manufacture both domes-
tic and coarse woolens. They are preparing
in connection with that establishment, a wool
cardinp machine. They have also just put IN
operation a corn mill and have in process OF
erection a superior -four mill. The company
also expect to increase the number OF splndles'
within six months, to $500, thus enlarging the
business and furnishing employment to a much
larger number ofoperatives.
Mr.. Leman, one of the partners, is a practl-
cal and scientific machinist. with a large ex-
p~erience in connection with the Northern fac
tories. The company is in successful opera
ton, and the practicability of such establish
ments in the South, no longer remains a prob
lem with practical men. Indeed the success
of similar experiments in Alabama and Geor-
ria has long since dissipatedwhatever OF doubt
NAV have been associated with such enterprl-
ses. Practical men will now be found aband-
oning the snailpaced movements with which
they have hitherto employed their capltal' and
embarking into business which promises such
rewards to the capitalists; while it will enhance
the value Of property and add to the wealth OF
the country in an indefinite ratio We learn
from the Mississippian that a similar establish
ment is contemplated at Jackson, but on a lar
ger scale, and $4,000 has already been sub
scribed by a company of gentlemen. Other
counties, too, are moving in the matter. A
company Of enterprising gentlemen in this
county, we are happy toll earn, have already 50
far arranged their plans for the establishment Of
n factory near this place, as to render its sue
cess no longer Chimerical. We shall hereafter
take pleasure in laying before our readers such
information as may, in this connection, prove
interesting or useful. u arrolton Dem.
sr. LOUIS FRE--The whole number OF
houses destroyed were 4l8.
The number Of lives lost not known sup
posed to be 20.
The loss OF property is about 100000.