The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-07


damaged cotton is, with us, easy. and di-
rect, and We save the burdensome North.
ern charges for storage, insurance. bro
kerage, Co., and the loss from repeated
samplinga aud thefks. More or less cotton
can always be purchased in the lint. thus
saving, to that extent, The loss by bag.
ging and rope. Freights on manufac.
turcd goods are less than on bulky and
hazardous bales of raw cotton. Another
advantage is to be found in our climate.
Fire for heating purposes is only requir-
ed for from one to three months of the
year. according to localities. We have
IN abundance of unoccupied water power
in every Southern State. We have also
inexhaustible ooal-beds, easy of access.
Wages are comparatively low. The
mlldness of the climate. the abundance
of Lumber, md the cheapness of land,
enables manufacturers to provide opera
tlves wlths inexpensive but comfortable
houses and large garden plats. The ex-
peuse OF living must always be less here
than ut the North. The winters being
mild and open, we must ever be able to
produce our provisions moro chenply
than they can be produced in country
where great part of the six working
months nre appropriated to raising sup
plies for man and beast for the remain
ing portions of the year.
Our operatives arc admitted to be re.
mnrkably frugal, industrious, easily
taught and controlled, and we have an
unemployed class of many thousands
from which to draw in the future The
North and Europe will contribute largely
in operatives whenever there is demnnd
Tor them, and thus manufacturing will
advance Immigration.
The English, in manufacturing, mix
India and other inferior cottons with the
American, while we use the best staple
the world produces. The consequences
is. that where our goods have been in
troduced abroad, they are preferred to
the English. Tue foreign manufacturer
has been known to brand his goods
drills, for instance--as American.
Your Committee have Ind before them
carefully complied statements, showing
the cost Of manufacturing cotton North
and South. They are fully satisfied that
yarns can be manufactured here, trans-
ported to the North, pay commission
of five per cent. for selling, be sold at the
cost Of Northern production, and yet yield
a net profit of five cents per pound
And that certain classes of cclored goods
can be produced here aud sold in the
North, at cost of production of similar
goods there, and yet yield a profit of
over li)c. per pound.
English manufacturers have admitted,
after inspecting the books of some of
our Southern factories, thut we produced
yarns more cheaply than they did. TO
test this admission, the Salnda Factory,
of this State, sent in April, 1869, through
the house of w. G. Courtney & Co.. of
Charleston. some packages of their No
20 yarn, to Manchester, England. These
yarns sold at 16d., which, at the then
rate of gold and exchange, was eqnal to
1870. currency here. The total cost of
the yarns, including freight, insurance,
commission on sales, &c, was 30Isc.,
leaving net profit Of 4l4o. per pound.
In support Of the positions assumed,
your committee direct attention to the
great success of the Augusta, Grunite-
vile and othel factories in manufaotur-
ing plain goods; of the Columbus, Ala
mauce and other factories in making
colored goods, and the Saluda, Roswell
and iptlrer factories in spinning and warp
ing fine yarns, with profit Mt u time when
manufacturing at the North aud iu
Europe has been lahguishing aud I'm.
profitable. In further co firmatiou, the
following extracts, from a letter written
by prominent manufacturer ut the
North, is submitted:
"While I have only met expenses in
the North in running twenty frames
5000 spiudles-the returns I have from
sixteen frames of the same machinery
in Georgia for the last six months have
been $500 clear profit. Our company
has determined to sell out their ma
chinery." "The South enioys
the advantage of not less than twenty
per cent. over the North in munufactur-
ing"
The writer OF this letter has since
moved South, and his cotton mill at the
North IL permanently closed.
A large number of Northern cotton
mills nro idle, many of those in opera
tion have recently reduced the wages of
their hands, aud some are rnnning on
snort time; machinery is being trans
ferred to the Sonth, and skilled labor
aud capital is beginning to follow. EGG
land is losing her monopoly. France
and Germany are yearly importing less
of her yarns aud manufactured goods