The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-04
,southern Manufactures,

| graLlIy1ng progress All Ine Aianniaohue Va
cotton, as well as in its culture, during the
last few years. Andein view of the prob
ability Of an early recovery from the
wastes Of a war, propositions from the
Southern States to work up their fine long
cotton into yarns for the English and 9th
er foreign markets, instead of exporting
the bulk of the raw staple, as in times
gone by have been revived, and are NEE.
ting with great favor. Such an industrial
development, it is seen, would be equlya-
lent to positive increase OF the active Ia
Dor on the plantations, since it would ntii-
ize class of the population not available
for the fields, but which is at present
measurably useless, and, to some degree,
positive drag on society.
The South, it is well known, has impor'
tant advantages in the manufacture OF cot
ton. 1t has the raw material at hand, an
abundance of food within easy access, an
unlimited water power, an unsurpassed
climate in many sections, plenty OF timber
and coal, together with extended and ex,
tending facilities for communication and
transportation. The only present drawback,
or impediment, of any Importance, is the
lack of adequate capital; but as this is
already being supplied, there would seem
to be no good reason why manufacturing
industry should not at once take deep root,
since it has been demonstrated that the
relative cost of converting cotton into
yarn, as between England and the South,
is in favor of the latter. The Superinten-
dent of the Sulada Cotton Mills, at Co.
lumbia. South Carolina, has furnished some
interesting facts and figures on this point.
He assumes, by comparison, the price OF
cotton at Columbia to be 20 cents per
pound; at New York, 23.5 cents, which
he assumes as fair proportions. On this
basis, the cost of making pound of cot
ton into yarn at Columbia would be 9
cents, wilhelm Newly Yorkit would bej14.32-
cents, and in the freight and insurance
from Columbia to New York and the cart
age, commission and other charges here,
the cost of manufacturing yarn is found to
be fully cents per pound cheaper at Co.
lumbia thanin New York, assuming that
the article is worked up here. A similar
calculation having been entered into, as
between Columbia and Manchester, shows
that the manufacture of cotton yarns can
be done cheaper at the South than in Eng
land, by about the difference in the value
of currency and gold. The figures of a
manufacturer of yarns in Manchester show
the cost of pound of yarn there-taking
"a cents per pound as the cost of the cot
ton, and ll.25 as the cost of conversion
at 1925 cents. The cost of the transfer
of the pound of Southern yarn-costing
In the South 20 cents-from the South to
England is, including both freight and in
surance, barely Is cents. This, added to
the preceding cost, makes the cost to Eng
land sos cents, whereas the pound manu-
featured in England costs 1925, showing
that the Southern manufacturer can put
his-y yarns do&n in England Ats cheaper
than the English manufacturer can make
them there. If these figures, which refer
to No. 20 yarns, are substantially correct,
they surely afford very strong argument
for pushing the manufacture of cotton at
the South, as well as its culture. By
working up the surplus cotton into yarns
for expectation, it has been roughly esti-
mated that a profit of twenty dollars
bale would be realized over and above the
profit of growing the staple. In crop of
three millions bale, this would afford an
extra profit of sixty millions Of dollars
enough, surely, to create a strong incentive
on the part of the men of means to engage
in the business.-N. Y. Economist.