Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-08
Manufactures in South Carolina

We have surrendered much Of our space this
week to the very excellent article of Mr.. j. X.
Blackman. recently published in the Charleston
News and Courier, on the subject of manufac-
tories anl manufactures in this State. Our
object in re-pubsbing Mr.. B.s repor. is two.
foldi First to induce our own citizens to manu-
facture their own cotton, &c.; and second to
show parties residing elsewhere aud disposed to
such investments the inducements, advantages,
&c., offered in our immediate section for the
conversion of cotton into thread, cloth, sc.
From our knowledge of the subject we are in
duced to believe that Mr.. Blackman's report isa
correct and truthful statement and therefore can
be relied on.
10 our citizens we say that by simply con-
Terting your raw cotton into thread or cloth you
very nearly double its value, thereby adding
yearly to your own and the States wealth one
hundred per cent. by cooperation you can in
each section or neighborhood erect small or
large factories according to your means, and
where water power is not obainablc ,ou can
use steam, either power answering the object in
view.
we would urge upon our readers the consilc-
ration Of Mr.. Blacsmau's report, and then dc.
eide II there is any better as good an invest
ment for their surplus capital us in the esiab-
ishmenl of cotton factories in their midst thus
not only increasing our population and giving
them employment, but adding yearly TO their
own and the wealth Of The country Don't say
you have not sufficient capital. Join your
means with the means Of your ncighbors. DO
as you do in your log .rolings and corn, shuck-
'ngs. Call in your neghbors. Form compa.
MES, and then if your location, water power,
&c. is such as warrants large Investment to
develop it, you can no doubt by investing in
il yourselves ind.ce those who have ample
means. residing IN other States. to join you.
as Colonel liammett, President of the Piedmont
Factory, said to Mr. Blackman, if our own pco.
pie will but put their money in cotton factories,
there will be no difficulty in inducing outside
parties TO join tn IN, and thus raise whatever
amount Of capital is needed for the Improvement
and development Of suitabl. and dcsirably
located water powers, especially in section of
country offering and possessing the inducements
which our immediate section does
10 parties residing in other States, VIC call
their attention to what is known as the Pied
mont section, as offering perhaps greater induce
ments than any other portion cf the South for
cotton factories. The Richmond, Charlotte and
Atlanta Air Line Railway, the main line of
travel and freight from New York and New
Orleans passes directly through this section,
thus furnishing all needed railroad facilities
besides this VIC have n line Of railroad 10
Charleston, with transportation by water TO New
York, which gives competing line.
The upper counties in this State afford many
fine water powers. Oconcc County possesses
rs many or moro than any other County in the
State. The locality, local advantages and
motive power Of some of them make them very
desirable for development Their proximity TO
the Blue Ridge Mountains makes their water
supply constant In this County you can find
water powers ranging from q twenty 10 Eve
hundred horse power and upwards. Many of
these powers, with The lands around them, can
now be purchased at mere nominal prices, at
from one to tn e dollars per acre. Our winters
arc mild, streams rarely ever frozen; both our
summer and winter climate pleasant our lands
productive, producing al. the cereals as well as
cotton The average yield Of cotton right under
the Blue Ridge for several years past las been
equal to the average yield pcr acre Of the State.
And there is no doubt but that the increase in
the production of cotton in these upper counties
will keep up with the manufacture of it here, so
that cotton factories erected here may rcasona-
bly, rely on their supply Of cotton being grown
here. We therefore extend cordial invitation
to all disposed 10 cotton or other branches of
desiring water powers of different
capacities, 20 visit our section of tho State to
sec, cxapine and judge for themselves.
Letter from Anderson County,