New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-27
the Louisiana Manufacturing company.

inc Aontstane manufacturing company.
Chief among the enterprises Of the South, and the
one which, If properly encouraged and extensively
carried out, world contribute more than anything
else to the stability aud independence Of the South
ern States IL the manufacture Of cotton. Here and
there throughout the South are cotton mills which
aase done and are doing business 50 prosperous
that we can scarcely understand why they do not In
crease more rapidly. The raw material is at hand,
less the expense of transportation and operatives are
easily to be had to any extent and cheaply as can
reasonably be desired IT is in city like New
Orleans that should judge the cotton Manufacture
capable Of being carried with the greatest facility
and with the largest profit.
The material is here in oceans fresh and loose from
the fields; the cost of setting up factory is mat
ter as easily surmounted here in any other part of
the country; and TO operatives, our suburbs swarm
with poor children, growing up in idleness-who,
though poor, are still very far removed from the
squad poverty and starvation Of the North-and who
could easily be procured, aud employed with benefit
to themselves and their families 1t is therefore evil
dent to u.s. that all that is requisite to place the South
on footing Of entire independence in the cotton
manufacture, is proper spirit of enterprise on the
part Of her moneyed men-a spirit which recognizes
no halfway measures, and knows no such word as
fail.
This matter has been revived in our mind by the
discovery Of fact of which we were not previously
advised when, day or two since, we paid visit to
the mills Of the Louisiana Manufacturing Company,
at the corner of Harmony and Leyee Streets Fourth
District That establishment, we knew had for
years been engaged successfully and probably in the
manufacture of hemp rope but we did not know,
until we visited the other day that it had engaged
in cottonspinnng likewise 1t is less than two years
since the Company, by way Of experiment, undertook
the cotton branch of the spinning business and
though they have not gone into it extensively, the
success Of that experiment has amply demonstrated
that the cotton manufacture would thrive here as
well as in any other part of the country or world if
not a great deal BETTER
The factory is very large and massive brick build
ing three stories high, fronting on Harmony Levee
and Water Streets Under the polite guidance of the
Superintendent, we went all through it. An object
which we were bound to admire, on entering, was
the engine in the easements very large beam en-
CINE, recently built by the Messrs. Leeds and highly
finished and most beautiful piece of work. The
engine is at least twenty feet high has six feet stroke
and thirtysx inch cylinder 1t is, we believe the
largest stationary engine in the South and though
it propels all the machinery in the building creating
whzzng thunder on every side, it moves itself
with less noise than that OF paror sewing machine.
1t is altogether magnificent piece Of machinery,
and being visible from the street. is the cause of
constant stoppage Of the passing crowds.
The cotton spinning is carried on, from first to last
in section Of the third story We went through the
room, crowded with carding and spinning machines,
attended by cheerful looking boys and girls and the
whole place trembling with the velocity of the ma
chinery. 1t took us but short time to follow the
cotton, from where it was put in loose to where it
come out nicely pressed in square bundles of yarn in
twisted hanks, ready for packing in bales and for
shipment - the manufacture in this establishment
stopping with the spinning. We learned that in this
one room about six hundred pounds Of yarn was pro-
dueed daily, and readily disposed Of.
We next went through the hemp-spinning depart
ment which occupies part Of the third story and the
lower stories of the building In the top story the
rough loose hemp was put into machines which tore
and chewed it up like smoke, and sent it in large
loose bands through pipes to the story below Here
it was caught up by other machines, which dstribu
ted it in loose strands nicely eoled into tin canisers
These cansers being sent to the lower and last story
were made to disgorge in manner truly astonishing
to us, we having never that particular operation
before. For making three strand rope three cans of
the loose strands are placed In each of tue long row
of twisting machines. Each of these machines re-
wolves horizontally with the greatest velocity and
whilst the three chase each other in an almost
invisible revolution, each separate can is revolving
rapidly in the reverse direction. Thus each of the
three loose strands is twisted hard before the three
meet and twist the other way into rope. As soon
as the strands join and twist together they pass
through nut, from which the rope issues smooth.