The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-10-31
PLANTATION COTTON FACTORIES.

Clement -lNdchnent, Destined TO Nuke Cotton
Raising a Better Paying Business.
We copy from cur contemporary the At
lanta Constitution the following interesting
letter i'll reference to the operations Of the
Clement attachment for spinning yarus from
seed cotton:
WINDSOR. y. c., October |, 1879.
Mr.. c. +. ANEHS: Yours of the 18th
Of September received and contents noted.
We are runningtwo Clement attachments"
We have been running about three months.
The attachments cost $500 each. We
are running Gl2 spinIlcs, cost at Brides
burg, Pa, So per spindle. Two top fat
cards cost S;:2225 each; card clothing $50;
ono drawing frame, six deliveries, six into
Two reels, forty spiudlcs each, $3.50; one
cotton cleaner S72.
Fifteen horse power is sufficient to run
the above machinery. We use 900 pounds
Of seed cotton per day, andmako an average
Of SEQ pounds Of yarn daily. We work
ten hands one engineer at 81. per day one
foreman, So four girls at so cents and four
girls at 40 ccuts each We consume three
iourths of a cord of wood per day, at 81 25
per cord. Our mill nets us from eight to
ten dollars per day. We get from 1G to II
cents per pound for our yarn. We sell in
Norfolk, Va, Baltimore, Md, and New
York.
The new process has an advantage Of
half over the cid. We dispense with the
lint room and all the machinery used there
in. We do three times as much work on
our card as can be done on the sanl> card
in the Old process. The cotton is never al
lowed to fly or leave the machine until it
passes of into silver, or continuous roll, in
to revolving can. The profits are more
than double that Of the old process We
only use four machines from the field to
make perfect thread (cXccpt the cotton
cleaner, which can bc dispensed with }
There are about ten machines used in the
ol! process, taking the cotton in the seed.
We run by steam, and think it cheaper
than water, everything considered The
more attachments, or the larger your mill,
the greater will be your profits, as the cx-
pcmse does not increase in proportion. The
main object is to find out how much seed
cotton you can get, aud build your mill ac
cordngly. Onc great beauty in the Clement
attachment is that you can build on very
small scale and make it profitable, and anoth,
is that the Northern people cannot utilize
it, because they cant get seed cotton, and
therefore they are down on it and doing all
they can against it. We sell our seed at
eight cents per bushcl to the farmers.
Our machinery is all new and Of the lat
est and best improved. Second hand ma
chiucry can be bought for half the money.
i IL, n, oP
be bought bnt always prefer the best, if
it costs litt!c more BridcsGpra Manu.
featuring Company, 60 n. Front street,
Philadelphia, Pa, is the address of the firm
that box .ht our machinery from
Any information that can !:ivc you in
the future will be done with pleasure. |
hope to live to see the day when every pound
of cotton raised in the South will be !nn
uiaciaIed i'll ,hc South then We will be.
CONC prosperous people. We have la
bored long enough to enrich the North, and
now it is time our eyes were opened to our
own interest. Let me know what success
YOU meet with. Very respectfully,
G. +. HARDEN.
The total Cost of machinery in Mr.. liar,
dcn's factory. as you will Sec, which does
not include the engine, is:
= Cicmcnt,' attachment, 5000 each ...S SEQ
Gi2 s!iuliyS al - per spindle c............. -"
: top fat cards, S225 each ................. II0
Card clothing. Observation-Disclosures. -
l drawing frame, O. deliveries y........... COO
block list spce"cr cr.......................... iIG
reels, SD cac...... ...................... 2iJ
! Gotten Cl"alcr...... ...., ................. -.
Total .......S :, -