Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-12-05

1Laughter.] Shall they commit suicide :?
No. What, then2 Simply this: Eat the
bread you earn or don't eat.
Mr.. Beecher closed with touching perora-
ton, in which, speaking of the rising genera
ton, he said: "Let them be men who earn
their living by the sweat of their brow, and
who can hold up their big, hard hands and
say they never took a penny they did not
earn"
Foom the Columbia PhenII ...
FACTORIES.
The elegant gentleman and learned Profes.
sor, Henry Junius Mott, who, forseveral years,
occupied the chair of Bellies Lettres in the
South Carolina College, during the Presiden-
cy of DR.. Cooper, and for one, or perhaps two,
years more, under the Presidency of Hon. R.
". Barnwell, (who yet lives and teaches our
ingenious youth by preeept and example the
learning, the morals and the manners beft-
ting a scholar and Christian gentleman,) used
to object to the word factory" as an unscholar-
ly clipping of the full word mandatory. He
would say, in illustration of the tendency to
mutilate words, "And now, young gentlemen,
they have so.called factory over the river"
His allusion was to the Saluda Factory or
manufactory, which was then in itsinfancy, and
which, after many reverses and changes, is
now well-established industry, doing a pro-
6table business, under the management and
proprietorship of Messrs. Childs, johnson q
Palmer. We believe that the accomplished
lecturer, were he living, and cognizant of its
extraordinary success, would not any longer
insist on his scholarly objection to the word.
1t now has the stamp of usage and approval.
We propose to-day to give leaf from the his.
tory Of this establishment, in order to show
how easy, practicable and remunerative pur-
suit is cotton manufacturing amongst us, when
directed by sufficient capital, enterprise, intel
ligence and perseverance. ~
Atthe meeting in this city of the Agricul-
tural Convention, in April, 1869, when our
present Agricultural and Mechanical Society
was formed, Col. j. B. Palmer, President Of
the Central National Bank, and recently cleo.
ted President of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, read an interesting paper
on manufacturing at the South. This paper
was expanded, and subsequently adopted as a
report on the subject it treated by the Agri.
cultural and immigration Convention, held in
Charleston, in May, 1870. Its demonstra-
tions were clear and convincing to every one
who heard or read them" 1t will be pro6ta.
BILE to reproduce them. The advantages
claimed in this report of COL Palmer, for the
South over the North in manufacturing, may
be summarized thus: 1. An abundance Of
unoccupied water-power in every Southern
State. 2. A mild climate, not requiring fire
for heating purposes for from more than one
to three months in the year, and the cheap.
ness of fuel. 8. Low wages, and the small
cost of comfortable houses and gardens for
operatives. 4. Superiority of Southern fac
tory hands in industry, frugality and in the
quality of being easily controlled. B. The
cheapness of freight on yarns and cloths, as
compared with lint cotton. The saving of
freighton baggage, rope and other waste, and
the use to which this waste can be put in man.
featuring it into paper more cheaply here
than at the North. These general positions
Colonel Palmer supported by comparative
statement of the actual cost of manufacturing
at the Saluda cotton mills, and an estimate
of manufacturing at the North. At that time
there were employed at Saluda in the manu-
facture of No. 20 yarn only 1000 spindles
(Jenks' ring travelers) Now they employ
1000, and the cost per pound OF manufactur-
ing is considerably reduced: ..r'
Labor Superintendent 81 carding 66;.
spinning 76; reeling 75........ A
Repair-labor and material, (machinery
nearly new,,, ..".. .... ~
Packing, bundling, &C., labor and mate
General @ expenseswWatch i3: hauling s2
findings 20; oil Is /; salaries o.; miscel-
laneouS 56......... w
Total DER pound - 527
Add-loss by waste, (450 pounds cotton
costing $780, and making but 400 pounds
OF yarn, . oO
10per cent for wear and tear Of machinery,
charged to production, per pound, ,"... 26
Total cost tofmanufacturing cotton, worth
20 centsper pound....:: 9W
Freights to New York or Philadelphia IS;
insurance l5......." oV
Cost cotton per pound. .."".""""........... 70 w
Total cost per pound of Southern yarn,
(No. 2O) delivered in New York;. % 80
The very lowest estimate have seen of
cost of manufacturing at the North pla-
ces cost of labor, repair, packing and
general expenses at, per pound........... lO "a
LOSS ny WdSto, (COLIOu dI ~ CeutS III w.
lumbia would be 24 cents iu New York;
$50 pounds cotton would cost $l0l.25, and
would make 400 pounds yarn ,)...,."". 81
10 per cent for wear and tear machinery" rs
Total cost ofmanufacturing in the North. "A 81
Add cost of cotton w ... ............... % so
Cost OF No. 20 yarns manufactured at the
NOrtl.. 90 o.
Showing difference in favor of the South
of, per pound............ VI
Both using same quantity Of cotton.
Deduct commissions, carriage, &c..."....."" vi
And we havea net prolific Southern man.
ufacturer, provided he sells at cost of
Northern production on........."...."......." %
A similar comparison is made with the cost
of English manufacture, showing difference
in favor of fSouthern yarn 4.75, without taking
into consideration brokerage in Liverpool, or
the freights and charges on the cotton from
Liverpool to Manchester. This would bring
the difference between cotton manufacturing
in the South and England to about the same
figure, viz five cents pound in favor of the
former.
Happy might we be, indeed, if we only
knew more fully, and rightly appreciated the
advantages with which kind Providence has
blessed us. We do appreciate them, but not
sufficiently. We have teeming soil, capable
of producine everything that mans wants call