The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-03
The Camden Radicals.
AUGUSTA ILL dLIVE.
Success Of her Manufactures-How Our
Neighbors In Georgia Make Ice-Prac-
tical Working OF the New Exchange
Boating-Crops, Fruit, sc.
rFRoM OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT

AUGUSTA, Ga, June 2s.
The manufacturing Interest of this city is oi
large aud growing Importance. The cotton
mill, situated on the Augusta Canal, in the
suburbs of the city, known as the Augusta
Factory, is splendid success. The stock sells
tor one hundred and ninety.fve cents on the
dollar, and the holders have for several years
received dividend of twenty per cent. ON ita
face. This factory runs sixteen thousand
splndles, FIVE hundred looms, employs five
hundred operatives. and produces an average
OF thirty thousand yards of cloth per day.
son, for the year ending June 8. 1872, is out OF
the press to-day. This shows the condition Of
the factory to be most healthy. During the
period embraced by the report 1t has turned
out 1857, ,8lO yards of drills, sheetings, &c.
dispensed $64, ,l78 81 in wages; earned the
handsome net amount OF $l49, GA 40, and has
paid dividend of $l20, 900 IN capital stock
OF six hundred thousand dollars.
Three or four miles from the city Is another
cotton factUry, the Richmond Mills, which Is
about the same size of the other, aud Is like
wise uelliug handsome profits. In addition
TO there are several flour mills.
The high price of Ice during the summer OF
1871 gave rise to the Augusta Ice Company.
This company Issued limited quantity oil
slock at twenty-five dollars per share, and
purchased suitable machinery during the lat
Lac part OF that summer, but did not fairly
commence operations until this spring. Since
then their success has been something as
tonishIng. Ice has been reduced In price
from two and q half to one cent per pound BY
lots of twenty pounds or more; the com pany's
stock has run up 10 a marketable value of
twenty-to dollars per share, aud the com.
pany nave been enabled to purchase new
and improved mschine. AS the process of
makiug Ice is pot generally understood,
place here. The principal instruments are
q large iron boiler and the "ice box"
standing at opposite ends of room. The
'ice-pux" is simply large tank, the interior
of which is divided Into number of email
spaces by series Of iron luoes laid horizon.
tally and crossing each other at right angles.
Between The "ice box" and the boiler is a
iron TUBES laid horizontally, but not crossing
each other; and on the side o. ;his tank, next
TO the s.ice.box," ;" Ia small roL reservoir. The
boiler is filed with ammonia, AZ i at the appli-
cation of fire generates q gas which flows
through pipe into the smaleG tank. This
tank is kept full OF cold water for. the purpose
of cooling the gas as 1t flows through the
tubes already mentioned. This gas is here
subjected toa pressure eqnal to one hundred
reduces 1t from the volatile state. aud lorces IL
into the reservoir colorless liquid. Relieved
from this pressure the liqnid Immediately
reassumes the volatile form with highly
increased powers Of absorption, aud
flows on through connecting pipe into the
''ice box" and iIs ramihcstlon of tubes. The
lice bUx" Is filed with liquid called chloride
of calcium, which will not freeze. and yet re-
tains colu for long time. a cuus! ant f1lw OF
hGss IN. hnv rrIo tu,SS, oil
heat from this liquid, which. In turn, extracts
It nom the water that is to be converted into
ice. The water for this purpose Ia placed In
long and narrow cans, which are made oil gal.
ranized sheet iron to flL the luterstlces form.
I'd by the intersection Of the tubes In the "lce
box" a snort time snff1ues to freeze this
water; when II Is ascertain-d TO be frozen, the
cans are taken out and dipped into bnrrel of
tepid water to loosen The ice, which will then
slide out with perfect ease. The cakes Of ice
are about three feet long by one wide, and
tour inches thick, and are very much the color
of milk. This peculiar color ls due 10 the air
frozen In the water. The machine which the
company Is now using produces from six 10
seven thousand pounds of Ice per day. The
new machine is up, and will be runAing next
week; IL will turn out twenty thousand pounds
of transparent Ice per day, at an average cost
of one sixth cf q cent per pound.
The Augusta Exchange IL now ln full oper-
alton; 1t opens at IL A. NJ, and at IL NJ. stocks,
bonds, &C., are "called." This Is done by q
member calling of the names Of the different
securities, which are printed in alphabetical
order upon strips Of paper. AS the name of a
security is called, If any portion is offered the
members make their bids, and the highest bid
is recorded on blackboard at the farthest end
of the room, while The secretary notes the
name of the bidder. If no bid is. made the
caller passes on to the next. Only members
are admitted. The crowd assembled cC the
calling present busy and interesting scene.
The Augusta Boat Club have recently pur-
chased hrst-cIass pspler-mache racer, built
by Waters, Balch & Co., of Troy, New York.
They will test the merits OF the new conner on
the Fourth of July, In regatta with their old
boats.
Reports from the cotton crops In this neigh
borhood continue very favorable. Melons
and June apples are In abundance. Peaches
have appeared at the fruit shops In limited
quantities.. Money tight; business dull;
weather hot and shOwery, SPRITE.