The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-03-24

owners n but the old state of things is /" dun
clar gone" This trade and traffic, It may
be fairly expected, will in few years large:
" increase the wealth and intelligence Of
the race in these localities. 'Si" : z.
~ ~ 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 seventy.
five pounds, or one 10 five. The negroes
without doubt will eventually grow al the
cotton, as not one in five Of the Northern
men have thus far succeeded in their at
tempts. Let the reader remember that We
have not looked at single pieccot maclliH;
cry yet, and then calculate the number Of
people and the amount Of wealth, these
works employ and produce, before We reach
the factory. The sail, the mine, commerce
and manufactures, all find employment to
supply The Clark Thread Company's
works, and when they stop the cotton may
bloom and fall unplucked, the coal miner
may sIarvc on n bed Of black diamonds,
the sails on the rivers be spread to the
breeze no more, and the lathcs in hundred
shops be left 10 rus, in silence. The manu-.
iacture Of CIark's " o. n. T." Spool Cotton
embraces the islands Of the sea and rcne-
tratcs the bowels OF the earth, utilizing the
treasures Of wealth en- every hand, enrich
ing and blessing mankind at every step,
from the womb Of ages TO the spindIes 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. a4r7sH,& o,
.a'5u1w We ENTER THE ENGINE HOUSE,
itself large enough for an ordinary factory.
Here is mighty prediction of human
brain and Drawn. IN the p:CseHce Of this
monster, with ia majestic tread, one feels
his own iusigniicancc and irailty. This
vast piece OF machinery, .moyipg silently,
save the sharp click Of the improved steam
cut.olls, is equal in power to the combined
draft of six hundred horses, and is two en-
gines in one, usually termed double en-.
ginc. The tly-wheclt travelling ut the rate Of
,forty-eight revolutions per minute and car
rying t6rce huge belts on its surface, each
two feet wide, Is seventy-eight feet in cir
conference, twenty-five feet in diameter and
weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand pounds.
The shalt Is fourteen inches in thickness,
the double cylinders are twcnty-six inches
in diameter, with condenscrs, and stroke
Of FIVE feet! They were built by Corliss, in
1874 One Of the three belts on the ay-
wheel is one hundred and fifty feet in
length.9 But even this double monster
could not run the works. I'll Inns big twin
brother, and together they travel every day
for ten hours on their endless Journey, and
never get tired. They are wonders Of power
and elegant workmanship, worthy Of a visi.
from any one who wants to see the ,f
s5 sDs. BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS a..
in New jersey. They are supplied with
steam frsm 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 i'm
mense establishment. Besides these there
arc three ordinary sized engines, made by
Waits, Campbell & Co., OF Newark, in dii'
iercnt parts Of the works, making seven Il,
all grand total Of nearly fourteen hundred
horSe power. The young mountain OF coal
which looks enough to lust the whole city o
year, is rebuilt by two. hundred and fifty
Ion boat loads, at brief intervals. NaE6
MANUFACTURING THE THREAD.
The cotton is brought in bales 10 the mix.
ing rooms, when il Is examined and placed
in bins, according to the different grades
ready for the scutching, machines, which
open and beat the material, cleaningit from
tie dirt and sand it contains in the bale
After going through tile seruching ma.
CHING, 1t comes ont in the shape OF a roll
like wall paper, comparatively soft, white
and clean. II is, however, really in n very
rough state, compared with the tneness and
perfection that is to be reached. Several Of
these sculchng machines are running con
tinunlly, and their sound Is like the roar 81
n lightning express train, rs 1t whirls past
the platform where you stand. The firsl
scutcher is fed with the bale cotton from q
hopper which lets it through into, knivc.
act in large rollers, which revolvc with tire.
mendous force, and lightning speed, picking
the cotton into small pieces, and passing il
by suction of air, on to other rollers, he
tween Which il goes and comes out in the
shape Of web or "lup" in large rolls
Four Of these rolls arc then placed upon .
machine like the first and run together
through the same process OF a''
PICKING ASD HEATING AND CLEANING,
when it comes out again in the saEe shape
! nS before, rolled to exactly the thickness
which i. is desired 10 mike the "Silyer
from which the thread yarn is to be spun
What "silver" is will he learned iurthCl
on. The machine il 40 dclicately ret thai
It regulates the thickness Of the web or lar
10 within hall al ounce, in n web Of five
feet, weighing only twelve to! cishtcer
ounces. After being put through tlirct
scutching machines in this way and coming
out with eight tlickneascs Of web or laI
similar 10 that produced by the first pro
ccsS, it is ready Tor the carling machines
| This department is filled with Curling Ma
chincr, Drawing Frames, Lappers, and
Combing Machines, a perfect labyrinth o
! betting, pulleys and machinery, tic iioist
Of which is like the roar Of many watcn
mingled with the clutter OF "a tllnuEant
wheels. /, One Of the large rolls q web u
lap that came from tho lust scutching ma
chine ia placed on Il canling machint
which takes and runs il
..,I &c BETWEEN THE TEETH 5'4fiW
81 large and small cylinder for the pur
pose Of drawing out tho entangled fiber
and laying them parallel or in hcsane lin
ofdirection and also to remove the small
pellicles or NOTES which may have cscapet
the action Of. the scutching machine. al
ter being treated in this way, Il cOmber o
doffcr takes the web from tie small cylin
| der which L nnr n tlnlfrnt Il rtin,n. and |