The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-10

CONCERNING the new Southern indus
trial sensation, the Clement attachment
the Atlanta correspondent of the Phila.
delphia Times says;
The mills are very simple. 1t is sim
ply the connection of a gin with a spin.
die by means of carding cylinders. In
the old system the fibre Is chopped from
the seed by lightning-like saws and then
thrown, all tangled and torn. into the
lint pile, then packed into bales, taken
to the factories, picked out and froggled
again and then carded into rolls and
spun. In the new process the gin moves
slower, pulls the fibre from the seed in
stead of tearing or cutting it, transfers it
carefully to carding cylinder instead
of throwing it into the lint pile, and
spins it at once instead of packing it.
COMPRISING it and picking it out again.
In the process of converting seed cotton
into thread, no less than four machines
used in the old process are elimi-
mated in the new process, and profit of
nearly two cents pound is gained. This
is an enormous margia of profit. 1t is
proved also that by the superior gins used
in the Clement mills eight per cent more
of lint is taken from the seed than by the
old gins, This eight per cent has here
tofore been wasted. From the lint to
the thread there is another five per cent.
of wastage saved. The furor over these
mills is wonderful.
They drive out all thoughts of politics,
1t is estimated that over one huhdfed
will be put to work in Georgia within
the next year. A prominent cotton fac
fnpNF V,raH1ofoI 10 41o4 lO
would come when the old factories would
scatter their spindles AMONG these plan
tation mills and supply their places with
looms to weave the yarns sent in from
the farms. The profits Of these mills are
large percentage. The six mills in oper-
alton average from thirty to sixty per
cent. A mill that costs So, 500 has made
81, ,S69 clear in one wear, and it viii do
better next Year. A double mill that
cost So, 900 is making from IS to so per
day, and is safe for So, 900 year. They
are simple, snug little structures, look
ing like the ordinary country grist mills.
A six-hofse power will run one of them.
Several northern capitalists have visited
the mills and several companies are be-
ing formed to put them up"
The beauty Of this process (Which is
the invention of a Memphis man) is, that
a bale of cotton thus treated IS worth
300 against the iifty-dollar value Of the |
DID ginned bale, and the whole cotton
crop thus treated will be worth $500 |
300, 600 to the south instead of half that |
lmOUnt.
There is no doubt that the Clement |
will bring about an industrial revolution
II the south. The expense Of gins, gin
houses, cotton presses, bagging, ties, and
other items of outlay under
he old system is done away with and the
ield for home labor is increased, The
most moderate estimate of value through
his agency to be added to the cotton
rop, is twenty-five per cent. If, with
he general adoption of this new indus
rial feature, the planters put in a variety
f crops, which will supply the require,
nents of their families and stock, the
otton yarn can be made the money crop.
nd the progress of the south to abund-
mt prosperity will then be OF the most
kind. !
This southern industrial revolution
hould be accompanied by combined ef-
orts to let the south's resources and adj
-antages be known abroad. 1t viii take
ime to turn emigrants in any great num-
,er southwark, but the day Will come, at
10 very remote period, when thousands
# European immigrants will prefer the
climate of the south with other induce
nents of the south to the cold northwest.
after while, through the proper dissem-
nation of the truth, people will find out
hat is quite ashealthy in the Gulf States
S it is IA Wisconsion, Iowa or Minnesota
People will also discover that there has
,een a systematic course of lying with
egard to the social condition of the
outh, and that human life is safer there
han it is in Pennsylvania, Ohio or Iowa.
COurier-J Ournal.