The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-11


encourage lust, and are detrimental to
the moral and spiritual welfare of men,
and are the enemies of education, moral
ity and religion. Mr.. Yancey, therefore,
appeals to the ministry and the churches
to aid in putting an end legally to those
dens of inlamy and wickedness.
THE GIN AND THE JENNY.
A Combination that will Make the Whole
South Rich.
Henry w. Grady writes from Atlanta
to the Philadelphia Times:
The 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 SO per bale,
which strikes the farmers as happily rs
did the fairy god-mother's gift to Cinde-
rella, and which comes quite as gratui-
tously, has given everything boom.
The cotton is being rushed to market as
rapidly as possible. Just upon this boom
comes the discussion of little 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 scpa-
rates the lint from the seed. The lint is
then baled and sent North for manufac-
turing. With the Clemen. mill the lint
is not only separated from the seed, but
it is spun into yarn. The difference in
value is enormous. The lint cotton is
worth only about eight cents pound on
the plantation; the yarn is worth seven
teen cents a pound. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that every pound Of cotton
spun is
DOUBLED IN VALUE.
A bale of cotton ginned by the old pro-.
cess is worth say $50; the same cotton
run through the new process is worth
500. Of this added value fully Sl5 is
clear profit. A crop of 5,0O0,0 900 bales
spun into yarn would therefore leave
$500, 100000 in the South, while it leaves
now only s25O,CO0,000. OF this surplus
of $3.50, 900, 600 there would be S75,00O,-
900 profit. The rest would be kept on
the flrms in the way of wages, &c. 1t
looks unreasonable to apply these figures
to the whole crop, and yet it would re-
quire no more capital to spin the crop
into yarns by the new process than it
does to gin it 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 will rapidly take the
place of gins on the plantations, and that
a thorough revolution will be effected.
There are six of these little mills in ope-
ration in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Each of them is visited daily by crowds
of sight-secrs and farmers and capitalists.
Letters are received from all parts of the
country, and samples of the yarn have
been sent for by Liverpool capitalists.
The yarns made by this process are supc-
rior to any others, and took the prcmi-
ums at all the fairs. The little mills
could not, all combined, supply frac-
ton of the demand that comes from Phil
adelphia alone for the yarns.
One point that commends the Clement
mills to 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 just as completely as it is now
ginned there. The mills are very simple.
1t is simply the connection of q gin with
spindle by means of carding cylinders.
In the old system the fibre is chopped
and torn 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 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 it,
transfers it carefully to carding cylin-
der, instead of throwing it into the lint
pile, and spins it at once, instead of pack
ing it, 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 in the new process, and q profit of
nearly two cents pound is gained. This
is an enormous margin Of profit. 1t 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.
TIE FURoR 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 prom
inent cotton factory man predicted to me
that the time would come when the old
factories would scatter their spindles
amongs these plantation mills and sup.
ply their place with looms to weave the
warns sent in from the farms. The
profits of these mills are large percentage.
The six mills in operation average from
thirty to sixty per cent. A mill that
costs So 800 has made 81 1863 clear in one
year, and it will do better next year. a
double mill that cost $1,000 is making
from IS TO $40 day, and is safe for
$4,000 a year. They are simple, snug
little structures, looking like the ortlina-
ry country grist 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 Southern
papers are full of enthusiastic articles
concerning them.
THE WHITE HoUsE.--The White
House WAS first built in 1872, at 4 cost of
s330,000. 1t WAS not occupied until