Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-04
ENTERPRISE.

| A friend in this State writes US as follows:
1.-TWO or three of US have just completed
cotton factory for the purpose of spinning our.
raw or seed cotton. We are using the Glenn
ent's Attachment, and are making superior
article of thread. We have met with cold
comfort from the older factories, who have de.
MED US any favors whatever, not even con-
senting to hire US, for a while, one of their
trained hands; so we have had to begin work
with only one experienced operative, and
have had to learn the mex xperienced we hope,
however, to set an example worthy Of imita-
ton, and with prudence and close attention
to business, cannot see where we can posi-
bly, lose by our investment" ia
This is the right spirit, and forebodes sue
cess. If the cotton planters of each township
in the State would organize and invest 10 sim
liar improvements, there is not a doubt but
that the cotton crop Of South Carolina, in a
very few years. could be enhanced in value
nearly one hundred fold, before it reaches the
transportation companies. Every individual
farmer cannot afford to buy Clements At
tachment, nor could every one who was able
to buy also erect the necessary buildings snd
purchase all the seed cotton necessary to have
on hand, in order to keep the machinery all
the time at work therefore the necessity of
this sort of union, organization, of which we
hope to hear much more in the future.
There are now two of these attachments
erected in the State, and we hope there will
be dozen before the next cropis on The mar
ket.
The above article shows US that this idea is
spreading, and we cannot doubt but that the
investment will pay. But we suggest that
much of that thread might be converted, by
machinery, into some manufactured article at
very little cost, and with much profit. To
manufacture it into cloth, homespun or osna-
burgs, would require too much money for
single neighborhood; but wherever Glenn.
ent's Attachment is used, there should be
some simple, inexpensive machinery erected
for the purpose of converting the thread into
some other article that would enhance its val
ue, and TINS increase the income of the cot
ton crop to the neighborhood and to the State.
For instance, socks and stockings are an es-
sential article of clothing, and are made from
cotton thread. Now, why should not stock
ing machine be established wherever the
Clement Attachment is used? The Nelson
knitting machine is a recent invention that
costs about $3.50, and will knit $50 pairs of
socks in day. An ordinary four horse en-
gine that is commonly used for threshing
would drive half dozen of them, and an in
telligent girl could attend to the whole Of
them. A friend told US that he saw twelve
of these machines in one room managed by
boy fifteen years old, and they turned out
$500 pairs of stockings in six days; the boy
received four dollars per week wages.
Heretofore machine made socks required
the finishing touch of the knitting needle to
point the toe, or round the heel, or the needle
and yarn to sew up the side; but the Nelson
machine begins at the top, knits down mar.
rowing as it approaches the heel, turns the
heel, knits through the foot to the toe, where
it begins to point, and finally finishes off the
toe with a single thread and then at once
without the aid of man, begins the knitting of
the leg again, and goes on with the same pro-
cess, stopping only when the thread is ex-
hausted. And the style Of the sock is said to
be far better than any heretofore made by
machinery.
There are in South Carolina hundreds of
water powers now running to waste, which,
with the aid of the turbine water-wheel, could,
at very little cost, be utilized to drive from
one to dozen of these machines, and the en-
tire cost could be borne by one or two farmers
in the neighborhood. Are there not men in
the State ready and willing to invest in such
an enterprise? Ifso, and they will advise US
of it, we will procure all the information
necessary to enable them to set to work in
telligibly-D. WYATT AIKEN, in Nesps and
Courier.