The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-17
DOUBLED IN VALUE.

A bale of cotton giuned by the old process
is worth say $50; the same cotton run
through the new process is worth 800. Oi
this added value fully S15 is clear profit
A crop of 5,0OO,00 bales spun into yarn
would therefore leave Sj00,000,0O0 in the
South, while it leaves now only S250,OOO,-
900. OF this surplus of $3.50, 100000 there
would be 100000 profit. The rest
would be kept on the farms in the way OF
wages &c. 1t looks unreasonable to apply
these figures to the whole crop, and yet ii
would require no more capital to spin the
crop into yarns by the new process than it
does to lin it by the old. One Clement
mill will do the work of of three gins and
cost about one-third as much. 1t is believed
that they will rapidly take the place OF
gins on the plantations, and that thorough
revolution viii be effected. There are six
of these little mills in operation 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 been sent for by Liverpool CAPT
talists The yarns made by this process are
superior to any others, and took the premi-
ums at all the fairs. The little mills could
not, all combined, supply fraction of the
demand that comes from Philadelphia alone
for the yarns.
one point Indl GOHIueiius the OItuichl
mills 10 the South is that they will make
AN ESSENTIALLY SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.
The cotton seed cannot be carried away
from the plantations. 1t must be spun there
lust as completely as it is now ginned there.
The mills are very simple. 1t is simply the
connection of gin with a spindle by means
of carding cylinders. In the old system the
fibre is chopped and torn from the seed by
Iightning-like saws and then thrown all
tangled and torn into the lint pile, then
packed into bales, taken to the factories,
picked out and foggled again and then car
ded into rolls and spun. In the new pro-
cess the gin moves slower, pulls the fibre
from the seed instead of tearing or cutting
it, transfers it carefully to a carding cylin-
der instead of throwing it into the lint pile,
and spins it at once, instead of packing it,
COMPRISING it and picking 1t out again. In
the process of converting seed cotton into
thread no less than four machines used in
the old process are eliminated in the new
process, and profit of nearly two cents
pound is gained. This is al enormous mar
gin 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 heretofore been wasted From
the lint to the thread there is another five
per cent OF wastage saved.
THE FrRoRE OVER THESE MILLS
is wonderful They drive out all thoughts
of politics 1t is estimated that over one
hundred will be put to work in Georgia
within the next year. a prominent cotton
factory man predicted to me that the time
would come when the old factories would
scatter their spindles among those piaDta-
ton mills and supply their place with looms
to weave the yarns sent in from the farms.
The profits of these mills are large percent
age The six mills in operation average
from thirty to sixty per cent. A mill that
costs 50, 500 has made 81 ,S69 clear III one
wear. and it will do better next year. y
double mill that cost $4,000 is making from
SIS to $40 a day, and is safe for $4,000 a
year. They are simple, sung little struc-
lures, looking like the ordinary country
crist mills A six-horse power will run one
of them. Several Northern capitalists have
visited the mills and several companies are
being formed to put them up. The South
ern papers are full of enthusiastic articles
concerning them.