Washington telegraph., 1857-12-02
Important Invention to Cotton Growers

! age Is lne Invention oil MI GeOrge 4.
Henry, whereby cotton yarns may be man
uiactured on the soil where the cotton
grew, and the capital, labor, and power
used to gin it, with no material cost added,
can be made to spin it also, and thus make
the income of the planter double what it
now Is. Mr.. Henry in his invention uses
a gin, but so constructed as to be a prepa-
ration carder, with lapper and speeder
attached, with also carders and drawing
head, and drawing frames, speeders, spin
ming fraines, aud reels. This machinery,
banded to 4 shaft which gives it motion,
operates singly or altogether, as is the
case in the factory. by Henry's process
the fibre Is taken directly from the gin and
I lap to the cards while in loOse and
straightened condition, and passe through
the other machines. lie thus excludes
the use of the press and ordinary picker
totally, saving the labor Of baillng and
also the injury to the fibre 1t occasions,
saving the waste this machinery CAUSES,
and as this picker Is machine in which
the fires of the factories arise, this process
diminishes immensely the risk by ire
There are other advantages OF great i'm
pOrtanee which space forblds our touching
upon.
The number and qualifications OF the
hands for few planters, according to the
quantity Of cotton they want to spin, will
b. about = follows ~ planter OF a hun
dred bales will require, tor the gin and
lap machine, his giuner; for the card boy
Of fifteen years; tor the drawing frame a
girl OF twelve years old; for the speeder
another .irl OF the same age; and for the
reels three women. \ planter Of three
hundred bales will require only four more
hands, and the cotton grower gets for his
yarn about double u much when only
ginucd as his cotton yields him, and the
saving of labor all computed i abou, equal
to that usually employed. With this inn
prVyeInent a single operative can supCrin-
tend as much work a. could have been
done by two hundred men sixty year, ago.
Yarns range in price from twenty-five cents
To :. dollar Il pound, according u quality.
y planter Of one hundred bales would re-
qulre s. ,5UU worth o. machinery to make !
lns crop, now w,Irth SI.JUJ, DgIn- nun
$4,000. \ fifteen hundred bale planter I
will require machinery costing $4,000, |
his crop. supposed to be 10000 pounds, /.
aud hi, income, instead Of being $50 1000, /
will reach to $4,000. The consumption |
uf warns j. immense. Last year England
exported l6g, 900, 900 pounds, which it i
estimated required the amount Of 1lO,- /
los bales Of cotton To make, allowing four
hundred pounds to ball, aud dedurting
twenty per cent. for waste aud loss in
l.. 81. S-tt
England now supplies would be our own
it We took hold Of this improvement in the
South. and the So, 900, 900 Of cotton good
now annually imported will stop at once,
and the cotton manufactures OF England
be transferred to our own country.
\ correspondent Of the Memphis Eagle,
writing from New York on the llth inst.
has the following in regard to the above
invention:
At the fair Of the American Institute
in this city, silver medAl was awarded to
Major Geo. G. Henry, of Mobile, Ala
bama, for his improvement in the manu-
tacture IF yarns, by spinning the seed cot
ton ON the plantation. | am Informed
that Major H. has contracted to put his
m1chine into immediate operation on the
plantation of Geo. l.. Yergcr, Esq, a prom
incnt citizen of Yaxoo county, Mississippi,
and to spin the seed cotton into yarn to
the extent Of FIVE hundred bales per annum
for five wears. This invention is destined
to work an entire revolution in the manu-
fdcture of cotton goods The advantages
OF Mr.. Ilenry's process are that by pass
ing the fibre directly from the gin to the
card he diSpenscs with the devil or picker
totally, saving the labor of boiling aud the
injury to the fibre they occasion, and that
the cotton planter gets for his yarns about
double as much as his cotton only ginncd
yields him.
II is proposed to form joint stock com
pIny under the law OF Virginia, with n
capital Of four millions Of dollars, in shares
of 81 900 each; which will contract with
the farmer to furnish the necessary ma
chinery at actual cost, and requiring in
payment tariff of say twenty-five per
cent. of the profit between the price of
the raw cotton and the spun yarn. Ii is
admitted the increase in the revenue Of
the cotton grower will be about 100 per
cent.