The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-10-16
success Of Southern Manufacturing.

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very large proportion of tile cotton now ship
ped to Eng land raw will be manufactured in
the South. We cannot sec what is to prevent
it. The original saving in the prime cost Of
the material, other things being equal, would
be fortune in itself, for hundreds of South
elm manufacturers. And why can we not
manufacture here us well as in Lowell, Fall
River, or Utical There can be no reason
why We SHOULD not-eScept want of dctcrm-
inatioh to try, and try right. On the hills
around Atlanta there might I've dozen large
cotton actorics-cach employing thousand
hands, and each making fortune. 1t is er-
roneous to suppose that water power is ncces-
sary to the cheap manufacture OF cotton goods;
steam is better motor, and in every way pre-.
ferable, for cotton manufacturing purposes, to
water. We have spent large portion of our
life right in the midst Of the manufacturing
districts Of England; and we know that all the
leading manufacturers Use steam in preference
to watcr-evcn where they have the most
abundant water power for nothing.
The Whitakcrs of Hurst Ashton Under
Lync), the largest manufactures Of England,
who for more than twenty years manufactured
By water power Ton the Mcrscy at DukinfcId(
in 1861 built three new. mills, a mile away
from the river, using steam power i'll prefer
encc to water. Sir james Watts and other
leading manufacturers of Manchester, Mr.. Jas.
Kershaw, Of Stockport, and indeed all the great
cotton manufacturers of England have done
likewise There is so much heat required in
the several departments of cotton manufacture,
that the cheapest way to supply it is by the
waste steam. In all large establishments they
manufacture their own gas from til" coal re-
qured in making the steam, and thus the heat
and gas light 50 much required arc created
with very little additional expense.
The acknowlcd ged health of Atlanta-we
question if there is Il healthier city in the Uni
ted Statcs-its central location as a great tho
roughfare, its railway connections with all
parts OF the country, combine to make it the
sic that capitalists should select as the great
manufacturing centre of Georgia, if not of the
South But it is not small, picayunc tacto-
~ that will succeed it should be large es-
tabislnent, on-a scale commensurate with its
Importance and managed and worked by cot
ton hands bed n Meb1 b1mHess, paid at rates sat
isgactnry to them and to the employer, those
rates great deal lower tIan are now paid to
inexperienced hands for work which they don't
nderstand-which they haze never learned.
We know supply, to any number, of such
hands might be obtained in the manufacturing
districts of England, who would gladly cx
change heir position for a home in the South.
TIieraw cotton of Georgia and the South is
nov, ard has always been, the builling up Of
rich commission LoGscs in New York, and lines
Of ships J,twcen there ard Liverpool. 1t has
constituted very large portion if not the prin-
c.pgi trade Of Liverpool; and it has built mp
the, tradcsncn of Manchester and other towns
of Lancashire and Cheshire, to be merchant
princes, and, in no few instances, peers Of the
British realm. 1t is now supporting, and has
long supported, over four millions Of the popu-
lation of England, and all this at the expense
of the Cotton States of this country. Those
four millions Of people can do nothE. se but
iaGa!astusa cotton !; and # i be h iiIcd
ulic mountau won't go to Mahonied, Mahom-
ned must go to the mountain"
That cotton manufactures i'll the South may
lc cmincntIy profitable, it requires only that
they be undertaken hy men of energy, enter
prise and capital. Their success would be be-
vond the shadow Of Il doubt.
1t is with great pleasure we sec il annour-
ced that the Macon Misunderstanding Company
have declared Scnii-annual dividend Of Fre
per cent. on the lass six uc,,tls e5erationS.-
Continued S;icca:s t> them.
.lH's"sa Eaie'liwnccr.