Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-12-04
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exh1blted great ingenuity ana IN
ventive genius, and manufacturing
establishments sprung up in various
sections. We have already noticed
the organizing of cotton maaufactur.
ing companies In two or three places
in the excluded States. The Mobile
Tribune, of the 18th ult., mentions
that meeting was to have been
held in Tomkinsville, Choctaw
county, Alabama, last month, to or
ganize cotton manufacturing COM
pany. 1t is to be built on site
where there is an abundance Of water.
power TO run at least 700 spindles
and 20 looms.
Let this kind Of enterprise 60 on.
The South has cotton lands, cotton
and labor. Why not pocket the pro-
fits of cotton manufacture : II New
England mill.owners can double their
capital in from one to three years,
declaring magnificent annual divi-
dends, why should Georgia, Ala
bama, Louisiana and other Southern
States, throw away the opportunity
to make remunerative profits upon
their own peculiar staplel While
waiting for the Radical party to come
to it's senses, do justice and admit
tho excluded States to the enjoyment
Of their Constitutional privileges, tho
South can well afford for time to
dismiss from its mind political affairs,
and address itself to the development
of its industrial resources. If thereby
it establishes out n partial independ-
ence Of New England manufactures,
the compensation will be ample for
its temporary exclusion from politi-
cal privileges. II will open new
fields for laborers of the South, new
capital, new forms of industry, new
sources of wealth.
We long since predicted, says the
New Orleans Times, of the I'd inst,
that the line of the Jackson Railroad
would, within n few years become a
busy scene of manufacturing indus
try. The high and dry pine lands
along that road are among the most
healthy locations in the South, and
the water privileges presented by
the Tangipaho, the Amto and other
streams, are equal to any in the land.
Already a company has been or
ganized under a charter granted by
the State of Mississippi with the
style and title of the "Chatawa Wa.
ter Power and Manufacturing Com
pany," The gentlemen prominently
connected with the enterprise, are
Gen. Writ Adams, Col. T. s. Hardee
and ID. r. Lehman, Esq. They
have secured large quantity of
land along the Tangipahoa river,
embracing almost the entire water
power furnished by that stream,
sufficient to turn spindles innumera
BILE, and to employ capital of
more than d million dollars.
1t is proposed first to erect paper
mill, which can be put in operation
by the investment Of n comparatively
moderate sum, and the employment
of limited number of experienced
hands. Such mill would become
productive within a few months.
The waters of the Tangipahoa are
clear and admirably adapted to this
important branch of manufactures,
and the demand for paper in this
city would be sufficient to keep
pretty large mill constantly EN-.
ployed. We believe that there is
not a single paper-mill now in opera
ton in the whole southwestern coun-
try, and there is certainly no other
place in the world where the raw
material can be obtained so album
dainty and at such moderate rates as
in this city.
The disannointmanfa which have