The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-03
South Carolina Cotton Mills.

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An instructive correspondence from
Greenville, S. c., to the New York Times
gives us some Interesting facts and figures
touching our Carolina cotton factories.
Inc correspondent, in speaking of The
progress OF the mills, says:
Ihe chief obstacle in the way of sue
cess was the scarcity of competent ope-
ratives, but with the aid Of few taken
from Northern mills, sufficient number
OF young native women and men have
been taught TO feed and direct the ma
chimes. We are told the Piedmont Com
pany,s book shows the following profits
on on sales for the fiscal year ending March
81, 1875: New York, S9,401.58; Boston,
yarns, $10,6l964 Baltimore. 81 .lSO'19.
local. S24,32O.04; oil other sources. IS.
163.46. -
A visit to the several establishments
within the past week elected the follow
ing interesting particulars
The Langley Manufacturing COMPANY.
Incorporated in 1870; capital of S456. 600
Its ::iill is in the town Of Langley. Aiken
County, on the Charleston and Aryusta
Railroad. $50 horse power: spindles 10
$50; looms 328; hands S25. Consumes
monthly $50 bales of cotton. with mn
average production of $4,000 yards of
sshirting, sheeting and drilling. Trade
brisk; prospects, very encouraging.
Glendale Mill, on Enoree River. .ix
miles east of Spartanburg. Horse power.
at low water, ESQ; spind!es 5000; looms
100; hands 125. Weekly consumption
40 bales of cotton, with average produc.
ton $4,000 yards shifting, sheeting, and
drilling per week. Trade better than In
five years. About caught up with orders.
Reedy River Mill. on heody River,
four miles from Greenvlle. Spindles
1000; looms 4S; hands 80. Average,
production daily $500 yards sheeting and
300 pounds yarn. Capital SAT ,500.-
Trade local and very lucrative.
Graniteville Mills, on Horse Creek,
near town OF Graniteville. Horse power
800; spindles 10000; looms 800; hands
24O. Monthly consumption 14S, S,00p pounds
cotton. Average production 100000
yards sheeting and drilling. A short
time ago the company also purchased
2,2O0 acres of land, and the water power
used by the Vauclause Mill, burned in
1874. and built new mill of granite
and brick which is being rapidly supplied
with the most approved machinery, and
VIII soon commence operations. The
dam for this new mill is built of granite,
and measures 842 feet in length. The
expenses for the latter were paid from
surplus funds and without an Increase OF
the capital stock-which is 5000 900.
Trade reported good for the season.
Piedmont Mills; capital 1886, 900, ON
Saluda River, Greenville and Columbia
Railroad, about II miles from Greenville.
Spindles, 1890; looms, $50; hands. 275.
Consumes daily Is bales of cotton, with
an average OF 1000 yards of cloth and
$500 pounds of yarn. The water power
is unusually fine. It has been estimated
that pressure Of $4,000 cubic feet of
water per minute can be easily obtained,
which would be amply sufficient TO work
100000 spindles. The company's books,
on March 81, 1879, exhibited surplus as
sets over all liabilities amounting to $780,
500, and $56,6S4 gross profits for the pre-
ceding twelve months. Plans have been
drawn and preparations are being made
10 eieo. anotiivt building without delay,
which is to contain room and machinery
for $4,000 more spindles.
Camperdown Mills, on Reedy River,
Greenville; capital $300,000; spindles,
1900; hands, 260. Consumes weekly
l0V bales of cotton, with an average pro-
duction of $4,000 pounds of yarn. The
mill produces q very superior yarn, much
sought after in local markets. Bleaching
and dyeing establishments have been re-
Gently added with gratifying results.
Trade reported satisfactory.
The Westminster Thread Manufactory
Is owned by machinist ,med Stribling
aud a few well-to-do farmers residing in
the vicinity of Westminster--a small
station on the Air Line Railroad, in Oco-
nee County. They commenced opera
tions about one year ago in two-story
wooden building, with small capital
Tho machinery used is S:sogn rs the
Clement attachment, which transforms
seed cotton into very superior thread.
Various sl.,,eriorities are claimed for this
invention, which are open to doubt, but
nobody can dispute its labor-saving quail
tiles. The laborious task OF ginning
and packing the cotton after it Is picked
is entirely dispensed with. The local
demand exceeds this mills production.
In addition to those already named,
there are two more-the Saluda and
BatesvilIe- factories; the former is near
Columbia. and tho latter sc Batesville.
Lexington County. Thoy produce about
the same quantity and quality Of goods
as the Reedy River Mill. Both appear TO
prosper.