The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-11
THE GIN AND TnH JENNY.
A Combination that will Make the Whole
Sou.i, Rich.

THE GIN AND THR JENNY.
Combination that will Make tho Whole
South Rich.
Henry w. Grady writes from Atlanta
to the Philadelphia Times:
Tho unexpected and artificial rise in
the price of cotton has added fully two
cents q pound to the ordinary price Of
this staple. This surplus of $40 ner bale.
which strikes the farmers as happily as
did the fairy god.mother's gift to Cinde.
rella!, and which comes quite as gratui.
tously, has given everything a boom.
The cotton is being rushed to market as
rapidly as possible. Just upon this boom
comes the discussion of lttlo machine
that Is already famous over the continent
and that promises the grandest results,
the Clement attachment. This machine
the invention of a Memphis mechanic.
who died of yellow fever provides for
the spinning Of yarns from seed cotton.
at present the cotton is picked from the
boil, taken to gin which simply sepa.
rates the lint from the seed. The lint in
then baled and seEt North for manufac
turing. With the Clemen. mill the lint
is not only separated from the seed, but
1t is spun into yarn. The difference in
vaiue 10 enoTnlou5. Thu lint cotton in
worth only about eight cents pound on
the plantation; the yarn is worth seven
teen cents pound. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that every pound of cotton
spun is
DOUBLED IN VALUE.
A bale of cotton ginned by the old n,o.
uou tbo
run through the new process ia worth
500. Cf this added galao fully SIS Is
clear profit. A crop of 100000 bales
$500, 100000 in the South, while il leaves
now only $3.50, 100000. Of this surplus
OF $500, 600, 900 there would be s75,000,-
OoO profit. The rest would be kept on
the farms in the way of wages. &c. It
looks unreasonable to apply these figures
to the whole crop, and yet it would re-
gulre no more capital to spin the crop
into yarns by the ne'I process than It
does to gin 1t by the old. One Clement
mill will do the work of three gins and
COST about one-third as much. 1t is be-
lieved that they viii! rapidly take The
place OF gins on the plantations, and that
a, a thorough revolution will be effected.
There are sig of these little mills in opo-
ration in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Each OF them Is visited daily by crowds
OF sight-seers and farmers and capitalists.
Letters are received from all parts of the
country, and samples of the yarn have
bee, been sent for by Liverpool capitalists.
The yarns made by this process are supc.
rior to any others, and took the premi.
uns at all the fairs. The little mills
could not, all combined, supply frac-
ton OF the demand that comes frcm Phil
adelphia alone for the yarns.
One point that commends the Clement
mills to the South is that they will make
AN ESSENTIALLY sou rHERN INDUSTRY.
The cotton seed cannot be carried away
from the plantations. It must be spun
there just as completely as it Ia now
ginned there. The mills ara very simple.
1t Is simply the connection of gin with
spindle by means Of carding cylinders.
In the old system the fibre is Chopped
and torn from the seed by lightning-iike
Saws anu ttirii thrown ii; tangled anu
torn into the lint pile, then packed into
bales, taken to tho factories, picked out
and foggled again and then carded into
rolls and spun. In the new. process the
gin moves slower, pulls the fibre from the
seed instead of tearing or cutting ii,
transfers it carefully to a ,arding cyIin.
der, instead of throwing it into the lint
pile, and spins it at once, instead of mack.
ing t, comprising it and picking It out
again. In the process of converting seed
cotton into thread, no less than four ma.
chimes used in the old process are elimi-
mated IL the new process, and d profit Of
nearly two cents pound Is gained. This
Is an enormous margin of profit. Is is
proved also that by the superior gius
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
heretofore 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. It is estimated that
over one hundred will be put to work in
Georgia within the next year. A prom
inent cotton factory man predicted to mo
that the time would come when the old
factories would scatter their spindles
amonge these plantation mills and sup.
ply the.f place with looms to weave the
yarns sent in from the farms. The
profits. of these millsare large percentage.
The six mills in operation average from
thirty to sixty per cent A mill that
costs $3, 800 has made 81, 800 clear in one
year, and it will do better next wear. a
double mill that cost $4,000 Is making
from SS to $40 day, and is safe for
$4,000 a year. They are simple, snug
little structures, looking like the c,iina-
= country girls. :..i;.is :.i;.iiss. 4 s;z..,o7sa
power will run one of them. Several
Northern capitalists have visited the
mills, and several companies are being
formed to put them up. The Southern
papers are full of enthusiastic articles
them.
The WHITE HoUsE.--The White
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