Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-30

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following interesting letter in reference to the
operation of the Clement attachment for
spinning yarns from seed cotton:
WINDSOR, n C., October 1, 1879.
Mr.. G. F. AKERs: Yours of the 18th of
September received and contents noted. We
are running two "Clement attachments" We
have been running about three months.
The attachments cost $500 each. We are
running 612 spindles, cost at Bridesburg, Pa,
So per spindle Two top fat cards, cost
1925 each card clothing $50; one drawing
frame, six deliveries, six into one, $500; one
block list speeder $3.50; two reels, forty spin
dies each, $3.50 one cotton cleaner $72.
Fifteen-horse power is sufficient to run
the above machinery. We use 1000 pounds
of seed cotton per day, and make an average
of 300 pounds of yarn daily. We work ten
hands: one engineer at 81, per day; one
foreman, 50 four girls at so cents, and four
girls at 40 cents each. We consume three
fourths of cord of wood per day at $1.25
per cord. Our mill nets us from eight to
ten dollars per day. We get from 16 to II
cents per pound for our yarn. We sell in
Norfolk, Va, Baltimore, Nd, and New
York.
The new process has an advantage of half
over the old. We dispense with the lint
room and all the machinery used therein.
We do three times as much work on our
card as can be done on the same card by the
old process. The cotton is never allowed to
fly or leave the machine until it passes off in
to silver, or continuous roll, into revolving
can. The profits are more than double that
of the old process. We only use four ma
chimes from the field, to make perfect thread
Except the cotton-cleaner. Which can be
dispensed with.) There are about ten ma
chimes used in the old process, taking the cot.
ton 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 expense
does not increase in proportion. The main
object is to find out how much seed cotton
you can get, and build your mill accordingly.
One great beauty in the Clement attachment
is that you can build on very small scale
and make it profitable, and another is that
the Northern people cannot utilize it, because
they can't 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 bush.
ell to the farmers.
Our machinery is all new and Of the latest
and best improved. Secondhand machinery
can be bought for half the money, and a
cheaper class of new machinery can be
boug ght, but I always prefer the best, if it
costs little more. Bridesburg Manufactur-
ing Company, So N. Front street, Philadel,
phia, Pa, is the address of the firm that l
bought our machinery from.
Any information that can give 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 manufac.
tured in the South; then we will become
prosperous people. We have labored long
enoug gh to enrich the North, and now it is
time our eyes were opened to our own inter.
est. Let me know what success you meet
with. Very respectfully. G. F. HARDEN.
The total cost of machinery in Mr.. Harden's
factory, as you see, which does not include
the engine, is: