The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-16
COTTON MANUFACTURING IN NEH
ORLEANS.
New Orleans Price current.l

New Orleans Price Curent.I
So many fallaoies prevail with regard to cot
| ton man nufacturing in New Orleans that it msy
| be we'll to correct shem by the statement of
| few facts which oan readily be established By
proper Investigation.
In the first place there are some persons O,
little informed on this subject. that they sup
pose it to be new industry in which We have
made no progress. And yet 40 10 we'll known
ton batting, we have three mills Of faii
capacity in steady and successful operation
and turning out o considerable product Of
With those of any other Ameriosu mills st
either the North or the South. We refer to the
Louisisus Cotton Manu- faoturing Company, in
the Third District. the Lane mills in the
ths jackson Railroad. II any one desires 60
examine the quality Of the fabrics turned oot
by these manufactures they can do 20 ct their
respective. agents, Messre. Anderson d Simp-
son, and Leoman, Abraham d Co. Those
willis are ell ron by steam power, which in
Mew Orieans is not more expensive In tho long
run than water power at the North, employ q
considerable number Of operatives and weave o
cloth ofsnch excellent quality thaS the demand
for II sbsorbs 1t nearly as rapidly % 1t can be
Produced = =
As illustrative Of the whole we win refer
to the Lonisiana Cotton Misunderstanding Com
papy with which We are most familiar. The
old Company which projected and established
terprise They purchased suitable tract Of
land in the Third District, fronting several
hundred feet on the Levee, and rnpning back
about one thousand feet to the city railroad,
and erected thereon capaoious brick buildings
ad dmirably designed for their purpose, and, un-
like most cotton manufactures, of only one
story. Ofoouree this involved an increased
outlay from more exkensiHe- -roo6se- and tho
requisition of more land, than IL the building
had been OF five or six storiee, but 1t has it's
oompeDs Dsatin ng advan tage in the whole field Of
operation, from the opening Of the bale to the
frnrV1 fh0 hoi ant F1nAa. kha
eye Of the superintendent. The Manager en-
ployed was o man Of liberal education, in fact
o ripe scholar, who had abandoned legsl and
literary pnrsuitB to devote his time to manu-
which he pursued with An enthu-
siasm apparently earnest enough to surmonnt
all obsSsoles. No one could visit his mills
when in operation, listen TO his elear and foroi.
BILE explanations, snd examine well his varied
means for the euoceesfol prosecution Of his
work. without the conviction that it lacked i
nothing to aesure suocess This we'll designed |
enterprise was, nevertheless, . failure, and
after q courageous effort to sustain 1t, was
abandoned and the property finally disposed Of
at public sale.
Il then passed into the hands Of the present
Company who bought it for the comparatively |
trfling price Of $40 00o-obtaining it'll to all
Of it's real estate and machinery, which could |
hardly have been acquired, built and collected
otherwise for less than fve times that Bum. !
then with this limited ontlsy |
The Company had $75 900 or $4,000 at their |
command for such i'm provements a. might be |
tiOn. The manager, to whom they entrusted
The charge of the mills is Mr.. F. 3. Lswrys q
native Of New England, of Scotch-SPanish de-
scent, who had been employed In mill when
by passing through every In
termedisto occupation until he reached bis
present responsible position. for which he sp.
practical skill, bat BY administrative talent
ind considerable force Of character. As the |
pest workman has no aspiration above perfeo-
lion In his especial task, 60 Mr. Lswry seems
% have no ambition beyond turning out fabrics
upeFior to those of any other American mill,
md ct . cost which will make their production
profitable TO the propriotors. WhAtever he
naster the special work he has on hand. As,
n other Gases of success in life, his rule Of
onduCt 10 TO obey the Prince'S Injunction,
Act well yOSr part, there all the honor lies"
Such are the Louisians cotton mills in rela-
ion to which, although We have all the pro-
ise desails before us, IL is suhieiont for nc to
perativeO aud run about an equal number Of
ooms from lees than 1000 spindIes and turn
mt not much leas than tho same number of
ards OF fsOEics daily, running only eleven
not greater than the product Of tho old mills
Vhich were run steadily night and day. The
em0le operatives ere from sixteen 70 twenty
faciens than younger girls, even when the
after were old enough TO be trusted with the
anne work. The most Skillfnl mako shout e10
er week and others less, in proportion TO their
opacity. The wages Of the men range from
/ 10 50 so per diem. Not . negro is employed
q the mills. There is . steady end in fact
uperabundant supply Of white labor, end
hero is no necessity Of using any other. The
sher mills also are run exclusively by white
abOr. We trust tbis will continue 50 be the
ESQ With al our city millS. There may bO
ituAtiOnD In the country where it will be oE-
'eaiens and proper 20 employ negEofR, but enoh
locegsity can never aHisB In . city llEa New
)rloans, WhoEs the oDneta1t iRaGK 0R Wbfest
mmiRretion Pgomfsee m uufaiil1R suppzV af
sbpE = ~ Pezsulta - Whigh a p eeIsea. V