The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-09
IN ehs Distrses Cosrf a. the ". 81. for fAe
Southern District a Mississippi.

IN che Distrscg Cosnf ~ the U. g. for nae
Southern District a Mississippi
In THE MArrER OF THE
MISSISSIPPI Manufactures CO.. Bankrupts-J
On the Petition OF Creditors.
Assigmees Sale.
PURSUANT TO q decree rendered in the
A above cause on the I'd day of December,
1870 win on the 23d day of February, 1871,
proceed to sell TO the highest bidder, At public
cutlery 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-wit !:
One half cash, and the balance in three
equal instalments, payable In SIX, twelve ana
eighteen months, TO be secured by a lien on
the property sold, together with approved per-
sonal security and insurance against hre
till full payment, as directed in the decree.
| The said property consists of Cotton and
Wooden factory in complete running order, ana
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
embracing several valuable plantations
The Factory proper is one story brick bull
ding of the most substantial character, o4V
feet long, so feet wide, ii IL feet ceiling COW
cred with iron rendering IL almost IRE proof
Picker houses detached from main building,
| eng CINE boiler and house at centre of factory,
and attached 10 il.
! MACHINERH-Ihe machinery consists OF one
superb 80 horse power engine, IL by 4S built
/ bv the Niles works, Cincinnati, with two five
4 fue boilers, y feet long and As deg. diameter,
| Outlet steel brush, 30 saw gin, Atwood do,
| l Bacon willow. / single beaten lapper, two
| do do and willow, built by Rogers lOcomo-
| tive and machine works, Patterson, n. j., u
| thirty inch cards, workers and Shippers, III
top flats, self-stripping cylinders, z railway
| heads with patent eVener attached, one roll
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 are for filing, ira
verse and and 34' rings, built by Rogers,
one go spindle spooler, .warpers,2 dressers,
| one 20 spindle twister, power banding ma
C hn e, hand do and 3 reels.
WEAVE SHoP--Sixty-four looms, built by
Thos Wood, Fairmount machine works, Phila-
| delphia, OF these there are 30 three box IL
treadle u two do do, l6 plain 4treadle.
| Wool RooM-Five 30p breaker cards, with
| burr rollers and side drawings, five ~
| breaker do, FIVE 30' fnisher four 264 spindle,
| wool mules, ] Hardy's grinder for workers and
shippers, do doffer and cylinder, Goddard S
! burning machine, / jerks wool picker, Cur
| tbs & Marble shearer, hard waste do, one 80
| inch gig, l buster, / washing machine, full
ing machine, l wool washer, B dye watts, lsizing
| trough, hat press, papers and plates, warp
| dyeing machine, ! beamer, l warping mill, )
| wool scafiolds, cloth winder and measurer, 4
lines tenter bars, l engine screw cutting
| lathe 1S' swing ii feet long, j geer cutter /
turning lathe, circular saw, bench and
| vices, blacksmith shop and tools. Total-2Ol6
| cotton spindles, and "a looms, capable of pro-
| ducing 2500 yards Osnaburgs, and 600 lbs
yarns per day; employing the 1856 wool
| spindles, 100 yards mixed cotton and WOODEN
| goods, and 200 yards cotton do, and 400 lbs.
yarns.
| The most of the machinery is in excellent
order. The lines of shafting are of superior
| make and finish. The 80 three box 10 treadle
| looms almost new.
This machinery is and has been producing
| superior manufactures, its yarns taking pre-
cedence of all others.
The store block contains a store 100 by so
reading room, hall, and clerks chambers
above, president s, secretary's, and treasurer s
| Offices with roomy vault and safe. Superin-
| tendents Office and store room in centre of
yard. Cotton house so by 30.
| Buildings surmounted with a tower So feet
| high, substantially built and covered with
| iron.
OUTBUTLDISGs Forty operatives houses,
one story frame, with from 3to rooms. Four
| superior dwelling houses for officers, two story
| hotel, II rooms, wood shop 40 by 80 engine
house attached with 20 horse power engine
and boiler, and other buildings before men
| toned.
The factory is lighted by No. 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 f5fmlnS country, anordlng 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 30 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 an inexhaustible supply of
fuel and saving timber.
| This is the rarest chance for an investment,
perhaps ever offered in the South and 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,
| decl1 Assignee.