The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-06
.-.oufa ctures in the south.

Tia napers further south, IN some OF tne
ton States, have been urging the estab-
y.Sment of manufactures. It's well known
.h.t the profits of the manufacturer are very
s".n,rnerativs, and there is no reason why the
South should not reap some of these Dement'S,
Itch to her will be increased by the saving
" The expenses incident to transportation
Nth The raw material reaches the North
.,n manufacturer with an increased cost Of
' .ns cent on each pound, it is calculated,
urb;cb has been added to its cost in reaching
;ts destination. The comparative estimates
hstween its culture and manufacture prove
tbe superior profits of the latter. The accu-
rcnlated wealth of the manufacturing States
.I,o nroye it. There the increase of wealth
is more rapid.
In an article written several years ago, by
aen JAMES, of Rhode Island, and published
rocently in De Bow, a st. tement exhibits
those facts. At that time, in five of the New
England States, there were employed about
" 400 operatives engaged in the cotton man.
ufacture. The capital employed in the BUSH
mass Mass as estimated in a statement we pub
Tsbed. $40, 9s2, l20, ami the gross product at
ssO9, lSO, 143. Deduct 331 per cent. from
ne former sum for cost OF materials, labor
excepted, S13,639, 1881, and there is left net
nroduct of labor $27, 27s, 1852, This, contin-
ues the General, is a trife less, or was, than
the entire amount received by the Southern
nlapter for all the cotton he ships, or shipped,
10 Great Britain. Yet this is realized on the
endowment of capital of something less
than S4S,OO0,O0O, while the planter employs,
to produce that cotton, capital in land, ne
groes and fixtures, $150,0O0,000. The diff
ference in interest, SO, APO, 900, is very de-
sable item in favor of the New England
manufacturer.
To produce this result, the Southern plant
err must employ at least 1870 900 able bodied
hands: while the Eastern manufacturer en-
ploys only $1,000, who create more wealth
than the former. In proportion to the capt.
tai and labor employed, the planter should
have realized more than twice the amount of
the manufacturer, but does not realize quite
as mucb-and two-thirds of the operatives in
cotton mills are women aud children. These,
SAYS the paper, are plain and unembellished
facts, based and borne out by the most au-
thentic data that can be obtained.
We trust however, that change to an i'm
portant degree will take place in our system
oflabor-that it will be more distributed, so
that large portion, heretofore confined to
agriculture, will be devoted to manufactures.
This division has already commenced in Geor-
gia, as is stated by the Macon Messenger
The Cuthbert manufacturing company has
been organized, as We stated yesterday in our
& Southern intelligence, grounds have been pur-
4 chased, and a factory is to be erected two
stories high, 800 feet long, by 1876 feet wide
i Stock to the amount of 100000 has been
subscribed and $l50,o0o paid in. A first
! class factory is to be established for the
manufacture Of the finer fabrics, prints, bleach
sdshirting and wooden goods Of every kind.
III connection with TIE factory, is to be
grain mill. The Messenger adds, manufac-
turing is the most remunerative business in
The world--no better investment can be found
for capital. Let us become manufacturing
people; let factories spring up everywhere in
our midst, and new fields of glory and pros
perity will open up for us u the future.
Cotton manufactures are not the only ones
that are profitable. Norfolk and Portsmouth
are most convenient localities for manufac-
turing enterprises. How would a bucket
factory answer here, or a broom and brush
factory, or any other factory, from which we
might supply our Southern neighbors and
ourselves with the thousand and one little in
dlspensabes with which we have heretofore
been supplied from abroad, but which we
might make for ourselves and our neighbors,
and thus give employment to the needywomen,
girls aud boys, who are struggling for bread
and meat, and, as it were, pining for honest
and remunerative labor