Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

TIE SEA ISLAND COTTON
brings treble the price of inland. An acre
will produce in the neighborhood Of three
hundred and fifty pounds Of seed cotton, which
when ginned weighs about sevsnt.fve pounds,
or one to five. The negroes without doubt will
eventually grow all the cotton, a. not one In
I've Of the northern men, have thus far sue
ceeded in their attempts. Let the reader lem-
ember that We have not looked 1t q single piece
Of machinery yet, and then calculate the mum.
Der Of people and the amount Of wealth these
works employ and produce, before We reach
the factory. The sail, the mine, commerce
and manufactures, oil find employment to sup
lily The Clark Thread Company's works, and
when they stop the cotton may bloom and fall
unplucked. the coal miner may starve on =
bed Of black diamonds, the sails on the rivers
be spread to the breeze no more, and the lathes
in hundred shops de left to rust in silence.
The manufacture Of Clark's 20. N. T." Spool
Cotton embraces the Islands If the sea, aud
peletratss the bowels of the earth, utilizing
The treasures Of wealth on every hand, enrich-
ting and blessing mankind At every step, from
the womb Of agss to the spindles Of Newark.
We will now examine into the immediate
sources Of the power which drives the endless
machinery Of this vast hive Of industry, with
its sixty miles Of betting and about seventy
miles Of steam pipe for heating purposes.
WE ENTER 1HE 1NolSR HOUSE,
itself large enough for m ordinary factory.
Here Is = mighty production Of humsn brain
and Drawn. In the presence Of this monster,
with its majestic tread, one feels his own in.
eigni6cance and frailty. This vast piece of ma.
chinery, moving silently, save the sharp click
ofthe improved steam cut offs, isequal in pow
er to the combined draft of six hundred horses,
and is two engines in one, usually termed
double engine. The fly wheel travelling at the
rate Of forty-eight revolutions per minute and
carrying three huge belts on its surface, each
two feet wide, is seventy-eight feet in circum.
ference, twenty-five feet in diameter, and
weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand pounds.
The shaft is fourteen inches in thickness, the
double cylinders are twenty.six inches in
feet. They were built BY Corliss, in 1874.
One Of the three belts on the fywheel is one
hundred and fifty feet in length. But even
this double monster could not run the works.
It has big twin brother, and together they
travel every day for ten hours on their endless
journey, and never get tired. They are won.
ders Of power and elegant workmanship, wor.
thy Of visit from any one wants to SEQ the
BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS
in New jersey. They are supplied with steam
from nine immense tubular boilers and four
large upright boilers. Corliss' plan. They
consume twenty-five tons of coal per day,
which will give some idea Of the amount Of
steam necessary to drive the immense estab-
lishment. Besides these there are three or
binary sized engines, msde by Watts, Camp.
bell & Co., of Newark, in different parts Of
the works. making seven in all, grand total
Of nearly fourteen hundred horse power. The
young mountain Of coal, which looks enough
to last the whole city year, is rebuilt by two
hundred ana fifty ton boat loads, At brief in.
tervals.
MANUFACTURING THE THREAD.
The cotton is brought in bales to the mixing
rooms, when it Is examined and placed in
bins, according to the different grades, ready
for the scutching machines, which open and
beat the material. cleaning it from the dirt
and sand it contsine in tue bale. After going
through the scutching machine, it comes out
in the shape of 4 roll, like wall paper, COM
paratively soft, white aud clean. 1t is, how
sv.r, really in very rough state. compared
with the 6neness and perfection that Is to be
reached. Several of these scutching machines
are running continually, and their sound is
like tue roar Of lightning express train, rs it
The first scutcher is fed with the bale cotton
from = hopper which lets it through into
knives set in large rollers, which revoive with
| tremendous force, and lightning speed, pick-
| ing the cotton into small pieces, and passing
tween which it goes, and comes out in the
shape Of web or clap" in large rolls. Four
Of these rolls ars then placed upon machine
like the first, and run together through the
same process OF
PICKING AND BEATING AND CLEANING.
when it comes out again in the same shape as
| il is desired to make the 'ssilver' from which
! the thread yarn is to be spun What 'tsil-
| ver'' is will be learned further on. The ma.
chine is 90 delicately set that it regulates the
thickness Of the web or lap to within half an
ounce, in : web Of five fret. weighing only
and coming out with eight thicknesses Of web
| or lap similar to that produced BY the first
| process, it is ready for the carding machines
This department is filled with Carding Ma
! chimes, Drawing Frames. !appers, and Comb.
hin Perfect labyrinth Of betting
like the roar of many waters mingled With the
| clatter of . thousand Wheels One of the
large rolls Of web or lap that came from the
| last scutching machine is placed on carding
machine, which takes and runs it
B1rw111 THE TEETH
Of drawing out the entangled abers aud laying
them parallel or In the same line of direction,
and also to remove the small ppllicles or notes
which may have escaped the action Of the
seutcl,ing machine After being treated in
this way, . comber or dofer takes the web
cate gauze; aud it is gathered mp and passed
through = small hole. say half an incl, in size,
after which, it is coiled in revolving can.
The whole process is one OF wonderful deli.
cacy, the material being 90 finely worked that
= breath of air would break it. This card
contains ninety thousand square teeth to :
foot, ora total Of four million one hundred
and eiahty.six thousand. On the carding ma
chine Is little joker that works like some old
man, raising the wire covered fats from the
teeth Of the carder, which it cleans, and throws
of the particles of dirt and coarse cotton left
on them. Six of the
TN CANS CALLED CARD sllv1Rs,
in which the roll is wound are now taken to
another machine called Drawing Frame and
run together into one ''sliver." These six an
10 light, that when they ara paes-d together
through hole and made one, they fa1l into
another silver and are then no larger than on+
Of the six from which it was made, although
they have not yet been twisted at all. Four
tsen Of these cans full Of slivers are placed At
the 'Lapper" and run between two rollers,
making new web nine inches wide and half
an inch thick, which comes ont like the criet.
nal roll from the scutching machine that takes
The cotton from the bales, only that now it is
soft and delicate AZ 10 possible to conceive,
weighing only one hundred and forty-ave
grains t. the yard, nine inches vide. Il now
French invention, first introduced in this
country BY the Clark Thread Company. It is
. !v6ned carding machine. the product Of
which IL as much superior in fneness to the
large cardels just described IS the most elegant
silk goods are to
THE coARsEsr COTTON CLOTH.
Il IL called the French combing machine, and
Is only used by the best thread makers. ~ IL
q very expensive and while il makes tho
thread superior In quality. Il adds twenty per