The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-23


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In the District Court Of the U. S. for the
Southern District Of Mississippi.
In THE MArrER OF THE
MISSISSIPPI MANUFACTURING Co., Bankrupts.
On the Petition of Creditors.
AssiSnees Sale.
DURSUANT to decree rendered in the
IL above cause on the I'd day of December,
1870, will on the 23d day of February, 1871,
proceed to sell 10 the highest bidder, at public
outcry, in front of the Factory building, in the
town of Wesson, Copiah county, Mississippi,
all the real and personal property belonging
to the said Bankrupts estate situated In Co
| piah county, upon the following terms, to-wlt
One half cash, and the balance in three
equal instalments, payable in six, twelve and
| eighteen months, to be secured by lien on
the property sold, together with approved per-
sonal security and an insurance against FIRE
| till full payment as directed in the decree.
| The said property consists of Cotton and
| Wooden factory in complete running order, and
| now in full operation, Steam Saw Mill, dwell
| ings, tenement cottages, hotel, depot, drug
| store market house, store and contents, and
store houses, wood shop, mules, oxen and wa
CONS, and nearly four thousand acres OF land
| The Factory proper is one storybrick bull
| ding of the most substantial character, $40
feet long, 80 feet wide, IL IL feet ceiling, COW
| cred with iron rendering 1t almost hre proof
Picker houses detached from main building,
engine boiler and house at centre Of factory,
and attached to il.
| MAcHINERY-The machinery consists of one
superb 50 horse power engine, Is by 4S, built
| by the Niles works, Cincinnati, with two hVs
fue boilers, q feet long and 45 deg. diameter,
Outlet steel brush, 90 saw gin, l Atwood do,
l Bacon willow, l single beater lapper, l two
do, do and willow built by Rogers lOcomo-
tive and machine works, Patterson, N. j., Is
thirty inch cards, workers and strippers, 10
top flats, self-stripping cylinders, z railway
| IL ith az he'd on
collier drawing frame, carding room, three 70
block list speeders, all of Rogers make, one
Hardy's grinder, for workers, shippers and
fats, and one roller grinder for defer and
SPINNING RooM-Fourteen IA spindle spin
ming frames 4 of which for filing ira
one 90 spindle spooler, 2 Wrappers 2 dressers,
one 20 spindle twister, power banding ma
chine, hand do. and reels.
WEAVE SHoP.--Sixty-four looms, built by
Thos. Wood, Paramount machine works, Phila-
delphia, of these there are 50 three box 10
treadle, II two do, do, IS plain 4treadle.
Wool RoOM.-Five 30' breaker cards, with
burr rollers and side drawings, five 3O'
breaker do, i've So fnisher four 264 spindle,
wool mules, Hardys grinder for workers and
shippers. do doffer and cylinder, Goddard $
burning machine, jerks wool picker, Cur
tbs & Marble shearer, hard waste do, one ~
inch gig, buster, l washing machine, l full
ing machine, wool washer, D dye watts, sizing
trough, hgt press, papers and plates, warp
dyeIng machine, L beamer, L WarplnZ mill, 3
wool scatolds, cloth winder and measurer, 4
line tenter bars, l engine screw cutting
lathe 49, swing, IL feet long, geer cutter j
turning lathe, circular saw, bench and
vices, blacksmith shop and tools. Total-20l6
cotton spindles, and "a LOOMS capable of pro-
ducing 25OO yards Osnaburgs, and 500 lbs.
yarns per day; or employing the 1856 wool
spindles, 100 yards mixed cotton and wooden
goods, and ZOO yards cotton do, and 400 lbs.
yarns.
The most of the machinery is in excellent
order. The lines of shafting of superior
make and finish. The Sc three box 10 treadle
looms are almost new.
This machinery is and has been producing
superior manufactures, its yarns taking pre-
cedence of all others.
The store block contains q store 100 byS0-
reading room, hall, and clerks chambers
above, president 8, secretary's and treasurer 8
Offices, with roomy vault and safe. Superin-
tendent's office and store room in centre of
yard. Cotton house 80 by 30.
Buildings surmOunted with tower So feet
high, substantially built and covered with
iron.
OUrBUILDISe. Forty operatives houses.
one story frame, with from 3 TO rooms. Four
superior dwelling houses for officers, two story
hotel, II rooms, wood shop 40 by so, engine
house attached, with 20 horse power engine
and boiler, and other buildings before men
toned.
The factory is lighted By No. 7 Empire
Gass Machine, furnishing 100 burners, giving
a perfect light in all the factory, gasoline oil
being the material used.
The location of the factory is in the midst
of good farming country, affording large
quantities of cotton, &c, and is on the divi-
ding ridge between the Mississippi and Pearl
Rivers, is high and healthy, and within the
influence of the sea breeZes, on the line Of the
New Orleans, jackson and g. N. railroad, 139
miles above New Orleans and AZ miles south
of Jackson, the capitol of the State.
switch runs in 80 feet of the front Of the
factory and store houses. The lands of the
company lie near the railroad, and are dense
ly wooded, with inexhaustible supply of
fuel and saving timber.
This is the rarest chance for an investment
perhaps offered in the South, band cannot
fail to attract the attention Of capitalists
throughout the country, who desire to embark
in Southern manufacturing.
Persons desiring to examine the property
will find good accommodations at the Wesson
Hotel, and will be shown the property by the
Assignee some officer residing on the pre-
misses,
Address the undersigned at Jackson or
Wesson, Mississippi.
JAMES D. STEWART,
decl7 Assignee.