The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-01-22
BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTH.

ranged to suit tho smaller planters, agreea
oily TO the hope you express, and one way o
another, we will do it, think. 1t WIS til,
smaller planters you had in your mind
when you wrote the paragraph that nc
planter would "invest his money in machn
cry so expensive. without satisfying li,nsel
Of its practicabi!ity," certainly they will not
and think know too much of my ow,
and human nature to suppose they would
No mechanic will doubt but the cotton
can be conducted from the Gin to the lap
and if that is conceded, The lracticaJiAt,
Of my inVention is also.
Then, if machinery costing 5000 o,
less, arranged in connection with the Gin
and run by six mules, will gin and spin lOC
bales Of 500 pounds Of cotton between Is,
Sept. and lst March into yarns, and this
machinery to te attended by five operatives
from to ~ years old, one IL to IL, and
three old women or men, Gs crippled will
answer,) aud this machinery and these opera.
tivos (for we cannot call them hands) il,
this time, sic months, will produce as mucl,
as the "5 or 80 hands, the plantation, l2
TO IS mules, oversecr and planter, all to-
gethcr, did IN t,ceIrc months, it sc, ms to
me, this shows economy and profit. This
is equivalent to another plantation, negroes,
stock and ovcrsccr, without the trouble OF
it. Yarns. it must he borne in mind, aver
age i'll value over twice the cost of cot
ton.
/ Now, il my Invention consisted in a
process hy which each planter doubled his
crop Of cotton, and should raise it suddenly
, from 100000 to 100000 bales, with
tho lights before me, should not regard
that as valuable one, as it would be too
great II yield for the day. But my Invcn-
ton will rerress the production of the raw
natcrial, rather than otherwise, think, as
planters will be better enabled to divert
some Of their force to the cultivation and
raising of greater quantity of articles Of
living and comfort. l hardly think that
VIZ thS SoAlch VIII dUSllstCt OOHU
file hands from the cotton crop.
AS l have answered SOME of my friends,
whose crops are much over the figure have
illustrated (of 100 bale pIantcrs,) and you
have some large planters in your section, |
will state that Il planter making 800 bales
Of cotton, hy spinuiug the year round, can
ty steam eng inc, alnl the machinery hc
wants, spin $50 pounds day, for about
SSSSoe Aega 'fqr3 vSG"S bc s%t s g. ts ;oHss sns
800 hale men, 500, 600 10 1000 bale men
will not delay long, on that exhibit, 10 put
their spindics i'll operation.
The clause in the remarks of the able
editors of the Georgia journal, saying |
would have a Factory in operation in six
weeks. arose from my informing them the
machinery for IL 100 bale planter could be
manufactured in about six weeks. A Fac
t'ry cannot be put in operation wilhou,
seed cotton, and the past short crop has
been ginncd up.
l am arranging to establish agencies, and
SO organize as to disseminate my invention
as rapidly as possible, and do not ask it
for myself, but for thc planter, and for the
thousands Of interests, commercially and
politically, which will result from it, that MI
parties interested in Southern Progress will
do, say, an8 write about it whatever they
think may aid and encourage and develop
1t; and am, sir, most truly, your oLcdient
friend,