The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-07-18
Facts Gathered at the Mills of Lowell.

The great question with the cotton
manufacturers at Lowell and Lawrence
to-day is not how to accustom the mar
kets of the world to their superior fab
RIGS. and make them purchase more OF
their coarse shirtings and drillings, but
how to initiate England in mixing lot
of clay and other foreign substances in
the finer grades. America to-day is cx-
porting about $13,000,000 worth of cot
ton fabrics, but they are of the coarser
material, and that particular branch is in
creasing by the week almost. In fact,
the mills at Lowell are worked up pretty
closely to the ever increasing demand for
these coarser goods, but when it comes to
the finer grades England succeeds in
making an article which our best manu-
facturers cannot approach, not because
they do not know how, but because they
lack the peculiar machinery required to
mix these foreign substances with the
cotton ard still produce u fine article, as
England does.
ave will get hold of that kind of ma
chnery by and by" said Lowell manu-
tacturer to me yesterday, "but we are not
in hurry. In fact, we are getting along
very nicely. Our prosperity does not de-
pend upon our export trade, and popular
judgment should not be misled by con-
,inually repeating that our home markets
cannot consume all we make. There are
day less dry goods in the American
market than there is demand for, and
when in the course of time we can fully
supply all that demand and initiate Eng
land thoroughly in the manufacture of
the finer grades of fabrics, then and then
only can we honestly compete with her
in the neutral market. But we are as yet
a very far way from it. Only this can
tell you," he added, "the American mills
are making money and the English mills
are not, with all of their vast export
trade. We have just taken account of
three of our mills, and we find that dur
ing the past six months they have paid
from three to five per cent, which means
about ten per cent. per annum. There is
not mill in the whole of Great Britain
that has such large return on its invest
ments. OF course, our trade needs fos-
| tering and great care, but it is folly to
say that we would not make as heavily
| weighted an article as England does. We
are not bit more honest; only, as | told
you before, first, We have not the machin-
cry for it, and second, there exists no ne
cessity for it as yet while We have our
hands full in supplying the present de-
mandy. Y. Herald.
THE FRIGATE Bird see q small
blue point in the heaven. Happy and Sc
| rene region, which has rested in peace
| above the hurricane! In that blue point,
and at an elevation of 10000 feet, royal
ly floats a little bird with enormous
wings. A gulll No; its wings are black
An eagle2 No; the bird is too small. 1t
is the little ocean eagle, first and chief of
the winged race, the daring navigator
who never furls his sails, the lord of the
| tempest, the scorner of all peril-the
man war or frigate bird. We have
reached the eliminating point of the Sc
ries, commenced by the winglcss bird.
| Here we have a bird which is virtually
nothing more than wings; scarcely any
body-barely as large as that of the do
nestle cock-whie his prodigious pin
ions are fifteen feet in span. The great
problem of flight is solved and over
passed, for the power of flight seems use
less. Such bird, naturally sustained by
such support, need but allow himself to
be horne along. The storm bursts he
mounts to lofty heights, where he finds
tranquility. The poetic metaphor, I'M
true when applied to any other bird, is
no exaggeration when applied to him
literally, he sleeps upon the storm. When
he chooses to soar his way seriously, all
distance vanshes; he breakfasts at the
Senegal; he dimes in America. -Michelet
The HIP PoCKET.-There is no dodg-
ing the new law against carrying con-
cealed deadly weapons. 1t is mandatory,
ana not left to the discretion of jury.
Whoever is convicted of carrying con
cealed weapons must suffer both fine and
Imprisonment. There is no way of pay
ing out or lodging the penalty. Money
will not suffice, but the rich as well as
the poor must endure the punishment.
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