The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-19
COLUMBIA; S. G.
Tuesday Morning, August 19. 1873.
Manufacturer In the South.

Manufactures In the South.
The Importance Of diversifying the in
dustry of the South. especially in regard
TO the increase of manufactures, is be-
ginning to be more appreciated by the
people OF this section than ever before.
It is stated that the spinning and weav-
ing Of cotton in the cotton growing
States has paid much better, taking ten
years together, than raising this staple.
The goods Of the cotton factory in Au-
gustn, Georgia, have been sold in New
York and other large markets, md it's
profits have been very satisfactory. It
has been in operation over twenty 6ye
years. After keeping up it's machinery
and providing for all depreciation, it has
been able to divide twonty per cent.
profit yearly on it's capital. This is far
better than cotton planters arc doing.
The company is now making q great in
crease to its manufacturing capacity.
The GEanitoViiie factory makes very
favorable showing, and those at Colum-
bus, Georgia, where variety OF fabrics
are produced, find most profitable
home market. Both South Carolina and
Georgia producers are beginning to ex-
press the feeling that "the cotton mills
must come to the cotton" The Atlanta
Constitution says:
1T pays the mill proprictors and it
pays the cotton producers to bring them
EiNy.1 1,Sat
kpmbus took this season 1881 bales,
which netted the producers 500, 600,
and the mills then put the 1851 bales
into shapes that brought nearly 50, OOO,-
600. The large difference accrues almost
entirely to the people and producers of
Columbus. It breeds other industries
and other wealth here in Georgia, in
stead OF Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
It seems to be conceded that the cotton
fabrics Of the future will be manufac-
-tured among the cotton fields. We can
and will compel the New England manu-
lecturers to either relinQuish their mills
in the North, or move them to the raw
material"
The success which the South has al
ready realized in manufacturing is gra-
tifying. 1t clearly establishes it's capa.
city to compete with any other section
in manufacturing heavy yarns and GER
tain classes Of fabrics, in which steady
improvement is apparent. It gives USE
ful employment to deserving and other.
wise comparatively helpless persons.
There ore many who are of necessity
idle, and others whose labor is not en-
ployed in remunerative way, except
there be the light employment which
manufactures afford. It is stated that
an active girl finds no difficulty in su-
perintending four power looms in a cot
ton factory, and can earn moro than she
Tor any substitute for) can by picking
/, cotton in field. Farming in this Sec
tion hardly pays five per cent. interest
on capital, while manufactures arc pay
ing in some localities from fifteen to
twenty per cent. The multiplication of
manufactures would better the farmers
and diversity their products. At pre-.
sent, farms are worn out. and their
value deprecated by the perpetual cul-
tiyation of one staple; while manufac-
turing industry, without the aid of
costly manurcs. preserves its powers of
recuperation. On the face of it, it
seems unwise enough to transport cot
ton thousand miles from the place
where it is grow to harsh and rigor-
oas climate, to be oarded, spun and
wove, when it might be dono on the
spot, III the most genial winter climate
OF the country, where tho watcr-courscs
ore never intcrfercd with by the rigors
OF cold and ice, and means OF suEsist-
ence for operati, could be raised in
abundance on the spot. Hence it would
seem reasonable that moro capital
should be devoted in the South to the
manufacture OF cotton. at tie same
time, it canno! be expected that the en-
tire cotton manufacture of tho country
should centre in the South. The pro-
duction of fine goods especially, and
even IN some varieties Of heavy fabrics,
require climate, market, labor and social
condition, as we'll ns q nearncss TO
financial centres, which are widely DIFF.