Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-08
TUE CONSUMPTION

hnu tnc production Is 4U,UUV pounds OF
yarn per month. This manufactured article
sells 10 the market for thirty cents apound.
When {theproposed increase 10 the capacity
Of tho factory is effected the daily produc-
tiou will be 1000 pounds of yarn. The
entire property is valued at 100000 and
during the past four years SIC, 900 has been
Responded ID improving tho water power.
A dam nino hundred feet long. Of solid
stone masonry, has been buitat an Immense
cost, and, if it was needed, ton thousand
horse power could be applied with little or
no further expense. This dam backs water
four milcs, with o depth of fifteen feet
The base is forty feet thick, aud it is eight
feet thick across the top. A sixty six iuch
turbine wheel is used under a head Of four
teen fcet. The owuor of tho property
claims that ho has improved and applied
the water power at grcat outlay Of money,
under charter from the State, granted iu
1874, for thirty years, and that the char
teripg Of
TiiE COLUMBIA CANAL
TO Messrs. Thompson Il Nagle, under tho
conditions cited in tho contract, will yirtu-
ally deprive him of his property. Tho
building Of dam across tho Congarco
River, he says, will back water on his
works and completely food him out lIe
proposes to resist to the last degree in tho
courts what he considers On invasion Of his
rights. If tho Columbia Canal Company
would bring their dam across Broad River,
insteud of tho Congarce, he contends, they
could obtain $4,000 horse power and not
interfere with him at all. Tho vote taken
by tho people Of Columbia to secure
Messrs. Thompson & Magic against any
damage that might result from the building
Of their dam across the Copgarcc River, he
says, does not really amount to q row Of
pins. 70 use his own words: "Columbia
is q bankrupt city, and corporation which
has nothing to lose can we'll afford TO give
any amount Of security. Tho whole diff
Guilty is that my factory does not pay taxes
to the City Of Columbia. If it was located
in Richland Instead of Lexington there
would be no trouble"
In conversing with Mr.. Campbell tho
Superintendent, asked his opinion as to
The feasibility Of working
NEGRO OPERATIVES.
He replied that at his factory lie had
worked mixed operatives with great adyan
tagc. Tho negro was as capable of in
struction 10 tho business as tho white male
or fcmnlc, aud could afford to work much
cheaper, as they could live so much cheaper.
The negro labor he found was easy con
trolled, und not subjcc. to strikes. Labor
was very abund,n., ho s.id, all their opera
tiyes being from the South, with the ex.
cepton Of ono boss spinner, who was from
the State Of Maine. Unimprovcd land in
the vicinity Of the factory il worth about
what lie thought of the
CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.
llo replied that he thought it would
prove to bo failure. "You can't make
yarn that will stand the test Of the market"
he sad, without skiIlful labor and attention.
1t may answer for carding 1t is iu my
opinion nothing more than an improved
gin. | would like to see men who have the
money try it. 1t cannot hurt tho factory
men iu tho slightest degree. We are not
afraid of competition" The Saluda Fac
tory has paid
CLEAR pRoEIr OF 10 PER CENT.
during the last year in addition to what has
been expended in improving the property
The cost of the new machinery which has
been ordered will be $4,000, and it is
hoped that the profits noxt year will incrcsc
in proportion to the increased capacity of
the establishment.
The Glendale Factory.
This model little factory is owned by
ID. T. Converse & Co., and is situated five
miles from Splttanburg Court House, on
InWsous Fork, Il tribut.ry of the Pncolct
River l75 horse power is used on three
turbine wheels, with fall OF 38 feet
Mr.. }. }. Hilton, Of New York, is the
upcrintcndcnt, and both Mr. Converse end
and Mr.. A. II Twitchull, tho principal
owners, live on the premises in handsome
residences. The company is not ineorpo
rated, and has u capital Of Sl50,O00 Tho
factory is now rnnuing 5000 spindcs and
l2O looms, aud manufactures shectings
Hhirtings, drills and yarns from No. 6 to No.
IL.
TIE CONSUMPTION
Of raw cotton is 3 1000 pounds per dny or
1000 bales year. Tho production is
l75,OOO yards of cloth and Is 900 pounds
Of yarn per month. The factory cmLloys
l2O operatives, all of whom arc white and
60 per cent. women and children, who re-
cciyo On average Of G7 cents por day. The
highest wages per day is $1.50 and the
lowest is l24 cents. -Four hundred persons
are dependent upon the factory for sup
port. The operatives arc furnished by the
company rent free, with neat and comfort
able cottages ranging in size from threo to