The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-16
On the Petition Of Creditor


Assignees Sale.
DURSUANT to q decree rendered IN the
II above cause on the I'd day of December,
1870, will on the I'D day Of February, IS,i,
proceed 10 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 20
piah county upon the following terms, to-Wlt
One half cash, and the balance IN three
equal instruments, payable in SIX, twelve ana
eighteen months, to be secured BY hen on
the property sold, together with approved per-
sonal security and an insurance against nre
till full payment, directed IN the decree
The said property consists Of Cotton ana
Wooden factory in complete running or IAN, anu
now in full operation, Steam Saw Mill, dwell
ings, tenement cottages, hotel, depot, drug
store market house, store and contents, anu
store houses, wood shop, mules, oxen ana wa
Embracing several valuable plantations
The Factory proper is nestory brick BULL
ding Of the most substantial character, S4o
feet long so feet wide, IL IL feet ceiling, COW
| cred with iron rendering 1t almost IRE proof
Picker houses detached from main building,
engine boiler and house at centre Of factory,
| and attached to it
| MAcHINERY-The machinery consists of one
superb 80 horse power engine, IL BY -, built
| by the Niles works, Cincinnati, with two hve
/ hue boilers, q feet long and 40 deg: diameter,
| Outlet steel brush, go saw gin, Atwood do,
| Bacon willow, l single heater lapper, two
do do, and willow, built by Rogers locomo-
| tive and machine works, Patterson, N J., ~
| thirty inch cards, workers and strippers, 10
ton fats self-stripping cylinders, 2 railway
| heads with patent evener attached, one roll .
| collier drawing frame, carding room, three ~
block list speeders, all of Rogers make, one
Hardys grinder, Tor workers' striPpsrs ana ma
fats, and one roller grlnoer LOT oener anu
cylinder.
ming frames, 4 of which for filling, 6 ira
verse and 2 3 and 3-4' rings, built by Rogers,
one 90 spindle spOoler, Wrappers, 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 81 three box IL
treadle, II two do, do, 10 plain 4treadle.
Wool RooM.-Five SO' breaker cards, with
burr rollers and side drawings, five ~
breaker do, five 30' fnisher, four 264 spindle
wool mules, Hardy's grinder for workers anC
shippers, do doffer and cylinder, Goddard
burning machine, jerks wool picker, Cur
tbs s. Marble shearer, / hard waste do one q
inch gig, l buster, / washing machine, full
ing machine, wool washer, dye watts, lsizinl
trough, hat press, papers and plates, war;
dyeing machine, l beamer, l warping mill,
wool scatfolds cloth winder and measurer,
lines tenter bars, l engine screw cutting
lathe 49, swing, IL feet long, geer cutter ),
turning lathe, l circular saw, l bench an
vices, blacksmith shop and tools. Total-2Ol
cotton spindles, and GA looms, capable of pro
ducing $500 yards Osnaburgs, and 500 lbs
yarns per day; or employing the 1866 woo
spindles, 100 yards mixed cotton and woOlel
goods, and 1900 yards cotton do, and 400 lbs
yarns.
The most of the machinery is in exeellen
order. The lines of shafting are of superiO
) make and finish. The 80 three box 10 treadl
looms are almost new.
This machinery is and has been prOduein
superior manufactures, its yarns taking pre-
cedence of all others.
The store block contains store 100 by 90
reading room, hall, and clerks chamber
above, president 8, secretary s, and treasurer
! offices, with roomy vault and safe. Superin
l tendents Office and store room in centre
yard. Cotton house 20 by 30.
Buildings surmounted with a tower Sc fee
high, substantially built and covered wit
5 iron.
OUTBUILDINGs. Forty operatives house,
one story frame, with from to q rooms. FOu
: superior dwelling houses for officers, two stor
: hotel, II rooms, wood shop 40 by 80 engin
: house attached, with 20 horse power engin
a and boiler, and other buildings before men
toned.
J, The factory is lighted by No. Empir
!. Gass Machine, furnishing 100 burners, givin
: perfect light in all the factory, gasoline o
being the material used.
/. The location of the factory is in the mids
l. of good farming country, afording larg
q quantities of cotton, &C., and is on the div
n ding ridge between the Mississippi and Pear
IL Rivers, is high and healthy, and within tn
l. influence of the sea breezes, on the line of tn
New Orleans, Jackson and g. n. railroad, IL
y miles above New Orleans and AZ miles scout
of Jackson, the capitol of the State.
" switch runs in 80 feet of the front of til
4 factory and store houses. The lands of tn
" company lie near the railroad, and are dense
l. ly wooded, with inexhaustible supply
fuel and saving timber.
= This is the rarest chance for an investmen
: perhaps offered in the South land cannC
e fail to attract the attention of capitalist
n throughout the country, who desire to embar
!, in Southern manufacturing.
Persons desiring to examine the propert
will find good accommodations at the Wesso
!, Hotel, and will be shown the property by til
: Assignee some officer residing on the pre-
r misses,
Il Address the undersigned at Jackson Q
!; Wesson, Mississippi.
i JAMES D. STEWART
. dec17 Assignee.