The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1873-06-25
The Granite FACTORY.

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This mill situated Immediately on tile
line of the North Carolina Rail Road
where it crosses Haw River, in the extent
and variety Of Its operations Is surpassed
by no other establishment Of the kind, in
the State, If indeed 1t Is equalled by any.
The ambition Of the proprietors has urged
them to steps that had not previously been
ventured upon in this State, while intelli-
gent application Of skill aud capita; has
crowned with success innovations that in
hands less bold might have ended in dis
ter. No factory that We know of in the
State with the exception of the one on
Cane Creek. in Alamance, had underta-
ken successfully the manufacture of coll
ored fabrics, and the Granite Factory is
probably alone in the production of other
articles of which We will speak in the pro-
er connection.
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ture, In Deauty and durability OF colors,
and In thorough fidelity of workmanship,
the articles known as Striped and Checked
domestics, and plaids, not only rival the
same class Of goods made at the North,
but In reality far surpass them. No one
can see the products Of the two sections
side by side without unhesitatingly giving
a decision in favor Of the work Of the Gra-
mite Factory, and so high Is this apprecia-
ton carried, that the goods Of the latter
push aside the former even IN its own
markets.
Bnt we are likely to extend our article
too far, and will therefore proceed to o
statement OF the capacity and productions
OF the mill, emitting for the present, any
mention of the buildings.
There are in the mill 90 looms, % spin.
ninc frames, containing 4TOl spindles, -
Reels, 4 Warp mills, 9 Spoilers, 2 improy.
ed Bopbin Minders or Quilters, ! Woods
Improved Lapper, with Beatcrs, do
with . Beaters, 80 thirty six inch self
stripping cards, @ Railway Heads, Draw
Ing Frames, o speeders, 2 Improved Care
grinders, English Opener, ! Banding
machine, and Screw cutting Lathe 70
repairs.
The productions OF the Factory are Bun
die Yarn, Warps for the Philadelphia;
market, Striped and Checked Domestics
Counterpart Plaids, Bed Ticks, Cotton
AIDES, Drills, Sheetings, Shirtings, aud os
naburrs. About 1900 yards Of goods Of al
the above kinds are turned out per day
and 1900 lbs Of yarn and warps, requiring
; a consumption Of about 0 bales Of cottol
per day.
J About 100 handsare employed, oil white
and mostly girls. Some Of the girls (wea
ycrs) make from IL TO sl5per month be
You'd their hoard.
/ The machinery Is all new aud 9
the most improved kind, and addition
/ are constantly made to bring the establish
{ ment up TO the high standard aimed at b
c the proprietors. The water.power Is yer
D great, and under easy control, and may y
: applied TO much larger use than IL Is take
G with at present.
! The mills are backed by a very prett
! village grown up for the occupancy Of tl1
: operatives, each house nicely painte,
a and having q garden attached; schoo
n and places Of worship arc provided. ail
q the mental and moral wants u the Poop
d supplied.
d The Cotton mills do not exhaust "
& power or the interest Of the locality, b
: we can now only refer to the large fiou
e inn mills, lone Of which. Is almost the Ia
b rest IN the statc,) but from It's situation
.. q Ifnw River,"as the station Is know
l. must in time become one ofthe most j.
,f porlant manufacturing points in q
o South.
- We have other interesting details of 0
g, eraiions at this point. which want of spa
L compels Us to postpone until next isste'