Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-05-02
From the Dailu Itlcyrapi.

from We Dduy 1cCSTipR'
Mr.. EDlroR-I beg a. corner of your
sheet to express the feelings ef qualification
that have lately felt on visiting Soulh
Carolina Cotton Factory. l alude to
Grani,eville, new establishment just put
in operation in EdgefeiJ District.
Three years ago; all around there was
wilderness Of poor, uncullivated land
with small but durable stream iumbl'ns
over the lowest chain of granite rock IN
the State, in q wild waste of useless wa
ter.
Now the stream substantially damned.
and the water brought down in canal
about a. mile, forming 90 feet head
Here Islands the Factory $50 feet long,
and 50 feet wide 2 stories high, aud built
OF solid blue granite, dressed in blocks.
forming one of the Handsomely building in
the South.
This is to contain 9.245 spindles, when
MI in operation, with 300 looms. which
will he enough to weave all the yarn.
This will consume 10 bales of Cotton a
day, and. turn out 10 to IL 600 yards of
80 aud 36 shir,ing and drilling, and require
800 operatives.
BY the arrangement of the machinery,
The Cotton comes in upon railway from
the Store house in the pickers room at one
end. and goes out cloth al The other, and
is taken into another store house, all in The
same yard, but detached from each other
to make all more secure against fire:
Most of the machinery is now in opera
lion by "raw hands," from The piney
woods population, under charge Of ex-
perienced overseers, and working mostly
by the job, or piece price, and. average
So week allround, including men. girls
aud hoys.
The village contains beside the factory
and store house, So dwellings, a hotel,
saw-mill, school house, and two Of the
neatest little Gohic churches ever built.
Taken altogether, Venture to asset tina,
a more beautiful manufacturing village
cannot be found 10 the world.
The machinery is all of The latest i'm
proved kind, and seems more like things
of life, than dumb engines.
The whole establishment, operatives
included, is pattern Of neatness. The
cost, including 5000 acres Of and another
mill site, has been $780, ,000..
1t is not ouly worthy visit from every
gentleman who feels and interest in the
prosperity Of South Carolina, but is es-
pecially worthy the notice Of every lraue!-
Ter like myself whois or may be among
you, "spying out The land"
Three miles above Graniteville, is The old
"Vaucluse Factory" owned and conducted
BY Gen. Jas. Jones, a very geullemanly and
enterprising South Carolinian, whom !
am pleased to learn is meeting with de-
served success 10 his business.
@ will give The public some items a. my.
earliest leisure that will tend 10 show that
Inc manu- llactGrins spirit tina, is just now
budding into bloom in the South, will soon
produce golden fruit, Soith- Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama are all n the field.
fla wish SOME of my Northern brethren
could $haye been with me during my long
tff,tifne pinns sihis--.s;r..--,,r. ,,.i,s-s,.<.--
t tieScapaLililies Of HE South 10 do her own
s;Riannfacluring. but that they nigh, have
@seen The actual workings of that system
or labor that they are so lilindiy warrins
Sgainsl=a system that bring, more com
sfort and cohehied happiness to the work
ing class who are most Affected. than
have ever seen dmdhs any other part Of
1he United States:
have no time here to enlarge upon this
subject, but hope 10 live TO be able to
give my testimony upon all proper occas-
iors, 'ru,hfully, upon this subject;
it is but proper that l should remark
before closing, that my extended tour
through all The Southern States is purely
au Asrcul'ural ons:
may he known 10 some Of your read
ers us correspondent Of the American
Asricul,uris.," published in New York,
by A. B. Allen. and it ls in that character
that am NOW travelling and in hope of
being able 10. disseminate some hsefu' in.
Fcrmation, while learning many things that
tend to make the North and South better
acquainted than they now are.
1 am most respectfully, DC:
SoLoN RosiNsoN:
f;ol,n,b;a 8 e.: ApriI "a. 1919.