The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-22
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The Louisiana Cotton Manufacturing
Company.
On Saturday representative of the DEMOCRAT
paid visit to the factory OF the Louisiana Cotton
Manufacturing Company, located ON the river
just above the Barracks. The company has
handsome and commodious building, fronting
220 feet on the river by 100 feet in depth,
with grounds extending back about 1900 feet
The improvements now consist Of the main build
ing, Of the above dimensions, a residence for the
superintendent, and some tenements for opera
tives. Is is the purpose Of the company, 30 soon
as circumstances will justify, to lay out the
ground back Of the factory, which consists Of
several squares, into lots, and build it up id
pretty cottages, each with garden plot attached,
for the operatives in the employ OF the company
This, however, is q dream, only to be realized
when the venture the company has engaged in
has been proven success, though this may even
now be taken as assured
The company has now in operation $500 spin
dles and sixty looms with producing capa city
OF 5000 yards per day. They have already on
hand several Thousand yards Of goods, four
quarter brown sbeeting, extra heavy, and Of O.
quality that will compare favorably with. il IL is
not superior to, the very best in the market
None OF these goods have yet been offered on the
company had experienced some difficulty in pro-
curing skilled labor, but this want has been sup
piled, and now they have regularly employed
seventy. five hands-ffteen men, thirty
women and thirty boys and girls. The factory
now is but in its incipiency however, and this
force will be doubled in short while. The build
ing contains ample room for more than double
the present productive capacity, and this will be
ncre ased as soon as possible by increasing the
machinery. new and powerful Corlss engine
has just been received and put up, with sufficient
hold.
The property Of the company was purchased
at sale made by J. W. Gurley, master in chan
Gerry, in the suit, in the United States District
Court, of Fl. W. benjamin vs. Chas Cavsroc ct
al, on the 9Th Of May last, and ID sbe same that
belonged to the ll-fated enterprise which proved
q failure here several years ago. 1t was pur-
chased by D. @. MoOan & Co.. who on the 30th of
May formed q stock company, to whom they
now under way, with an authorized capital of
100000, of which s12D,010 are already sub
scribed. The officers of the company are: Dun
can j. Kenner, president; M. A. Tarletor, secre-
tary and treasurer, and T. B. Lawry, supern-
tendept.
The enterprise ia now on secure basis, with
all the capital necessary, and in the hands Of men
OF sagscty and energy, who are determined to
solve the proposition as to whether or not cotton
fabrics can be manufactured here in the South
where the staple grows, and where that class of
our people, the women and children, which fur
nsh the greater proportion Of the labor in such
factories. ia almost entirely without employ
ment, and therefore cheap, at q less cost and
therefore greater profit thsn in the East, or in
England, where it has to be transported across
leagues of land and sea.