Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-17

elected more discussion the present year
than in any previous period, and it seems
probable that these discussions will not be
without favorable results. These discus
sions have shown that cotton can be
manufactured where it grows at from
seventeen to twenty per cent. less cost,
when ready for market, thar in the facto-
RIGS of New England. This very decided
advantage is held out by the t;outh to the
capitalist who is already engaged or who
propose to engage in the manufacture OF
cotton. The New England man who has
his machinery in operation viii find il
greatly to his advantage TO remove that
machinery to the South and put it in
operation here. The seventeen to twenty
per cent he would save in the cost of
manufacturing cotton would soon remu-
nerate him for the removal of his ma
chinery, after which his profits would be
greatly enhanced. The saving in trans
portation by the reduction of cotton to
net weight as yarn, in damage to bales, in
dirt, in pickings and stealings, and
commissions and profits of middle
men, should be an inducement to
capitalists of the South to engage
in the manufacture of cotton into
yarns. Weaving is separate business
from spinning, and requires more skilled
labor. To spin, however, is avery simple
business, and may be taught to child in
few months. One hundred hands,
principally children from twelve to
eighteen years old, can spin into No. 20
warn in one year two thousand bales OF
cotton, which il win require the labor of
four hundred men to produce To weave
well requires years of training. We can
compete with English spinners immedi-
ately-it will take time to rival their
weavers in the great markets of the world.
Yarns are recognized as a separate subject
of commerce, and are regularly quoted IN
market reports. Those who have paid no
attention to the subject would be surprised,
in following American cotton from the
plantation to England, and thence to its
final consumption, to learn how much OF
it goes from England as yarn to all quar-
tiers of the globe. One very serious draw
back to the introduction of cotton spin
ming in the South, is the fact that the
| machinery for such establishments, which
is mainly procured in Europe, is charged
with duty of forty per cent. in gold.
This heavy duty operates seriously against
the efforts of enterprising men seeking to
establish cotton mills in the South. Con-
gress should at once remove this obstacle
to the progress of the South. With such
favorable action on the part of Congress,
English capital and English labor vii
seek profitable investment and employ
ment in the midst of the cotton fields.
In this condition, it will be interesting
to note some facts bearing upon the sup
DIV and consumption of cotton. 1t il
curious to note how all discussions witt
reference to the products and develop
ment in the South come, at last, to tn
question Of labor. That is the keynote
the pivotal proposition of all plans sug
gested to benefit the cotton growing bel
of the South. 4 full average crop can
not be planted with any hope that 1t WI
he titled and the product housed in
, proper manner. This desideratum wi
however be supplied, and even should tn
, establishment of cotton mills exceed villa
r the most sanguine could anticipate, ther
viii be enough cotton raised for manu-
/ | featuring purposes and 10 export. Tn
= report of the statistical committee of til
| National Association of Cotton ManufaC
, tmers and Planters, made TO the LAT
meeting of the association held in Boston
has Just been published, and it contain
information valuable to all engaged in til
cotton trade. The report for the cOtto
year, ending Aug. 81, 1869, is base
upon returns from SO per cent. OF all I'll
spinning machinery in the country and
few additional estimates, including all r
II ceiyed up to Oct. l. The reports II
the preceding year include returns fro
80 per cent of all the spinning machinel
in the country. The care bestowed
the association, and especially by its Sc
IS rotary, Edward P. Bond, Esq, Of 30
r. ton, in making these reports and IN o
e tanning the information on which they a
r. based, deserves especial notice, and is
II earnest of their general accuracy. v
n extract as follows:
It The mills embraced in last years repo
a that have not now reported were general
s. of small capacity, having in the aggI
gate only G76, $50 spindles.
. The returns from 5Sl mills last we
and this year compares follows:
Sc lbs.
al SOC Northern mills, which Tor loht-o re 49,, ,
ported 1891, 947 spindles, consuming 81 o09,,
ht snmb lGr ioo'-' ''D'' 7i 9O5, 484
Y cunning
IA Showing falling off of 7.86 per cent or 26,O'5
III 70 Southern mills which for 1868 re
IN | ported 1876, 92l spindes, consuming. 2i,5Su,
Report for 1869, 1876, 659, spindles, con 400,
II Stunning ..........-....--- .-.''' @-'o'o,
ef Showing falling off of IT, 20 per cent, or ALL
- Together 5sl mills, which in 1868 re-
ported 6,O23 500 spindles, consuming 55s,949,
s. Report for 1869, 6,173,343 spndles, con a.,
Stunning. -o-o'io-'
Showing falling off of 1857 per cent, or 30 1856,
ny | These 5sI mills reported for 1873, as
nv cotton used otherwise than for SPIN
- ming. 4,IOS'
r. And report for 1869. 276l,
es Showing falling off of 4I.3O per cent, or 1913,
h 1t is fair to assume that a ratio afford
d. bv returns from 90 per cent. of the spi
dies reporting last year, and SO per ce
of all in the United States, taken as til
Is come, will be just and true ratio for
wv whole manufacturing power in the co
he parison of the last and the precedl
nd | years work.
1t is therefore applied to all the mi
ah reported and unreported, in the follow
M statement of the home consumption IN
lat mills, North and South, for the Vt
10. 1869, recloned, as last year, in bales
=, 466 pounds each:
:. Mills Spindles. for Sp
IN North 736 G67O,346 1917
lSe | South. .........-..... lOS 3uO,tO %
Used in mills, but not
nj; for spinning. ..-.-.. d
he rr,,oIs in 1880 s44 6q3O34 1854
As;nlt in 1s67-S sl4 67635 57 965
We Ba
ere | Showing reduction in Northern mills, for
spinning 80 ""
ian Showing reduction in Southern mills, for
spinning. 49, ~
VI showing a reduction in cotton otherwise
ci- used 1900 :