The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-12
The Pendlct6n Manufacturing Company.

Pendleton, on "Twenty-three Mile
Creek" and is within easy distance of
the Blue Ridge Railroad. The mill is
owned by Col. A. j. Sittou and j: W.
Norris, Esq. Col. Sittoh Is tie president
of the company, H. P. Sitton is secretary
and treasurer; and B. F. Wilson is super
intenden.. The factory is constructed of
red brick and is two stUfiss high. The
main building is $50 by so feet, and the
machine shop and packer room is Is by
25 feet. The mill was built in 1888, and
was run by company of which Mr.. 3.
T. Sloan was president up to 1866. 1t
was then bought by Messrs. Grady, Ham
itoh and Perry. This copartnershlp was
dissolved, and the mill full into thg hands
Of Mr.. Perry, who organized the Pendle-
ton Manufacturing Company, and opc-
rated the mill under that name. The
company. was unsuccessful and failed.
The bohdholders bought 1t in and ran it
for fifteen months, and then it &as ssold to
Col. Sitton and Mr.. Norris for SIC, $50.
The mill has been put in good repair by
its present owners, and the machinery
has been renewed with all the latest i'm
provements. The capital invested is
$4,000. The capacity of the mill is
1000 spindles. The CONSUMPTION OF raw
cotton for the month ending Oath JAN
uary was 23,767 pounds. The prediction
during the same time was 22,llo
pounds of bunch yarns and chain warps
from No. 4 10 No. 12. The waste in the
process Of manufacture was l $40 pounds.
which is only 60 per cent. A less
waste than any other mill III the State
shows. The cost of the cotton for the
same .Eonth &ds 1908 cents per pound,
or total cost of $2,55S 81. Tie total
expenses for the month, including opera
tives' wages. salaries and supplies, were
$3.50 Is. The yarn manufactured sold
form % to 23l cents per pound. The
gross receipts, therefore, for the ,produc-
ton during the month were S4,SG6 Sc.
The total cost of manufacture was 81!
76S 40, and
THE NET PROFIT FOR THE MONTH WAS
$2O9S 81.
This is d very magnificent showing,
and if the came rate of profits continue
throughout the year the capital will dou-
BILE itself. Of course the expenses of
shipment; insurance; drayage and COM
missions must be deducted from the
profits as given above, but placing those
expenses at the very highest figures they
will not amount to more than 10 per
cent; and on the other side there were
receipts from bagging and ties and sweep
ings and notes which would swell the
profits. ~
The mill is now engaged in working off
an order for lot of 4 and 6l yarns,
which will keep them working for six
months. The cards are run from 6 A. NJ.
to IL o'clock midnight in order to keep
the spindles supplied.
The factory employs 60 operatives,
three-fourths of whom are females.
sp1NNERs RECEIVE 40 CENTS PER DAY,
and the highest price paid per day for
any operative is 81 rs. These operatives
are accommodated in IS tenement houses,
which are owned by the company, and
are furnished rent free. Two hundred
persons are dependent upon the factory
for support. The water force employed
is 69 horse power applied to two Lafell
turbine wheels.
The profits of the factory for the last
year have been invested in new machi-
merry and improvements, and the proper
ty is now valued at S25,000. The per-
centage of profit for the year was over
20 per cent. on the capital invested.
As to the prospect for the establish
ment of manufactures is this State, Col.
Sitton, with whom 1 conversed, stated
that be had been working his mill since
last April under q contract. For the Is
months previous to that time it was
pretty hard to get along. Now they
were always behindhand in their work.
''The demand for our goods" said Col.
Sitton, ais unprecedented, and for the
next five years, at least, there is great
deal of money in the business. The re-
vival of trade all over the country helps
us, and there is not day that 1 do not
have to decline orders"
About the Clement attachment, Col.
Sitton said: "I have never seen one OF
the machines. 1 have seen the yarn and
it is good. have nothing to say against
the quality of the goods, but if any prac-
tical man will read the statements made
by the agents of the machine, he will
see that they are not prepared accurately.
For instance, they claim great saving
from the fact that the planter need not
bale his cotton, while the truth is that
the planter makes money on all the bag,
giug and ties he uses. He pays 81 25 70.
them and gets 50 10 on every bale for the
additional weight. Another objection
have to it is that am told that it does
not gin clean. If this is so the percent
age Of waste must be very great. They
can't work their waste over like we can a
portion of it, by running it through the
cards again, because they can't get it to
the cards without running it through the
gin, and it won't 60 through the gin
without the seed. In my opinion, the
only use it will be found profitable to put
it 10 is to work up the cotton on small
plantation. They say that they consume
500 pounds of seed cotton and turn out
160 pounds of yarn per day. There must
be some mistake here, because the very
best gins do not turn out more than l6G
pounds of lint cotton to 500 pounds ol
seed cotton. This would leave them only
six pounds waste in manufacturing 16C
pounds of yarn. There are many other
reasons why l think the machines will
not do what is claimed for them"
The Pendleton factory also gins la
bales of cotton, and cards 5000 pounds
| of wool for the surrounding farmers. This
pays 10 cents a pound for carding the
wool, and q toll of LIS for ginning.
The recent success achieved by this
factory as compared with its past difficul.
ties, shows very conclusively that good
management is the prime factor of sue
cess in a cotton factory.-Garleston New'
and Courier.
The COMING CENsUs.-The penalties
for obstructing the census takers, who
begin their labors on the first Monday in