The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-08
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strated-even with mathematical accura-
cy-that the South possesses advantages
oyer the North in. almost every form of
manufactures. And this may bo depend
ed upon, that Unless our domestic capital
shall seek this channel, foreign capital
will.
We arc told that in our State there are
many men who have money, and are
looking around for profitable investment.
Let us suggest to such-put your money
in factories and manufactures, and it
will be we'll for them and we'll for tho
country. A diversity of pursuits is the
life-blood of prosperity-it brings into
play all the energies of mind and body,
and leads to the development of peo-
ple's entire resources.
AS to the advantages we enjoy here at
the South, we refer to the following ex-
tract from Col. Palmer's paper, submit
ted to the late Agricultural Convention:
l. An abundance of Ut cupied water
power in every Southern state.
2. A mild climate. Fire, for heating
purposes, is only necessary for from one
to three months in the year. Resinous
heart-pine wood can be procured ut very
low rates. We Fay for such wood de-
livered within one mile of our factory,
only one dollar per cord, and our total
expense for fuel for, cay two and one
half months in the year, is but one
tenth of one cent per pound, when
to the manufactures of those
while In the North it is about
one cent per pound on the manufactures
of at least five months in the year.
3. Wages are, and must continue to
be, comparatively low. The mildness of
tho climate, the abundance of lumber,
and the cheapness of land, enables ma
nufacturers to provide their operatives
with inexpensive but comfortable houses
and large garden plats. The country
being an agricultural one, wo must soon
be able to produce our provisions, while
the manufacturing districts of the North
must always depend upon tho distant
West, and, to some extent, upon the
South for theirs.
4. Operatives. Northern men, acting
as superintendent of Southern mills,
admit tho superiority of our factory
hands, who are remarkably frugal and
Industrious, and who are easily con-
trolled.
s. Freights are lower on yarns and
cloths than on lint cotton. There has
been time, within the last three years,
when bale of cotton of 450 pounds,
worth, say, ninety dollars, paid freight,
from Charleston to New York or Phila-
delphia, of 81. so per bale, which would
be 2.77 per cent. on value; while that
cotton, made into bale of 400 pounds
of No. 20 yarn, worth, say S136, paid
only sixty cents per bale, of 44-1O0 per
cent. on value-a difference in favor of
yarns of two-third per cent. The South
ern manufacturer saves the freight on
bag2iDg, rope and other waste. This
waste can be manufactured into paper ut
the South more cheaply than at the
North, and is, consequently, more valua-
BILE here than there. Reclamation on
false packed or damaged cotton is easy
and direct, and we save the burdensome
Northern charges for storage, brokerage,
etc.
On the subject of the practicability of
Southern men engaging in cotton facto-
ries, Col. Palmer says:
1t seems to me entirely practicable for
the planters of the cotton-growing dis
tricts, all over the South, to combine to-
gether, in joint stock associations, and
erect cotton mills of sufficient capacity
to spin up their crops. No doubt, if this
suggestion were acted upon at once, and
all our cotton made into yarn, and
thrown upon the Northern market, the
supply would exceed the demand, and
loss, at first, would ensue. My PROPOSE
tion is to ship direct to the continent of
Europe, as we'll as to the North. 1t
would take us but little time to drive
other yarns from the market. The pro-
cess of approaching the spinning of our
entire crop would be gradual. and would
keep pace with. the gradual withdr, .ai
of our competitors.
The arguments in favor of spinning
will apply with equal force in favor OF
weaving. I have, however, confined my
suggestions and calculations to spinning,
because it is moro simple, and requires
less capital; and is, therefore, more like
ly to be generally adopted at an early
day.
TO show tho practicability of this
plan, submit an estimate for n cotton
mill with 1850 spindles, ring travelling
frames:
Number of square feet of flooring,
TO- 200: amount of No % warns mann