Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-05-09
The Kalmia Mills.

We had occasion few days ago, to refer
to this new enterprise, now in progress in
the Western part of our State. Since then,
we have learned some further particulars,
which may be of interest to some of our read
ers. The Mills ore being erected by char
tered company, whose capital ishalf million
of dcllars, but they have the privilege of in
creasing it to two millions.
The Company owns about SIX thousand
acres of land on Horse Creek, between lands
of Bath Paper Mills and Graniteville Manu-
featuring Company. On the land there is
ample water power for all purposes of the
Com pany, and numerous springs of the purest
water, which is indispensable in bleaching
cloth and making paper. Their springs at
one place form body of. water twenty feet
deep, and SO pure that the smallest objects
can be seen at the bottom. -
All the buildings are being constructed in
the plainest but most durable form of brick,
with tin and slate roofs, but are in most ap-
proved modern style. The factory buildings
are Immediately on the South Carolina Rail
Road, nine miles from Augusta, and the
dwelling houses on high table land, few
hundred yards distant. Both houses and
factories will be lighted with gas, and the
factories heated by steam. All the machi-
merry is driven by water power. The situa-
ton is one of the very best that can be ob.
tanned, both on the score of convenience and
health.
The machinery in the cotton mill consists
of ten thousand throstle spindles, to spin the
warp, and ten thousand selfacting mul spin
dies to spin the filling, and FIVE hundred
looms, to work up their productions. The
Company also propose to add bleaching mach
inery to bleach their cloth, which will mainly
consist of the finer grades Of shirting print
goods aud long cloth.
There is one large eighty-four inch Fon-
denier paper mill for making printing paper,
and one iorty.two inch machine for making
the finest writing papers. All the machi-
nery is the very best that can be got in Eng
land, and has been all specially manufactured
to the order of the President Of the Company,
who went abroad last summer for this pur.
pose.
Everything will be finished and 10 working
order within the next four months.
The Officers of the Company ore;
BENJAMIN T. Evans, President.
E. L. Kerrison, Treasurer.
Directors. w. Grady, benjamin
Mordecai and DR. ]. j. Chisolm.
John L. Branch, Chief Engineer.
We take the above from the Charleston
Evening Ne,Os; and congratulate the compa-
nv on the selection of its President. A per
sonal acquaintance with Mr.. Evaps on the
part of the proprietor of this journal enables
him to endorse the appointment as one eml'
nently fit to be made. PR. Evans was for
imerly a partner in the well known Charles
ton publishing house of Evans & Cogswell;
and subsequently had large printing estao-
lishment and publishing house in Columbia,
80, which was destroyed at the time that
city was burned by Shermau's troops; II was
the most extensive concern Of the KIND IN
the South, and its destruction was very Sc
rious loss. MIR. Eyans, however, is busl,
ness man, experienced and energetic, ano ,na
under his direction and superintendent the es
new enterprise cannot failto be successful
It is one Of those enterprises which we nave s
so often urged upon our people the daty oI
supporting, and one which will be OF great
benefit to this section Of the uuion.-Ausus-
ta Daily Press.