Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-12

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H. driven by g. pulley on card shaft r,=g lft,tf.4E
Miss, for their w.procees' yarns. Awards
were also made,at the State Fairs OF BSouth
Carolina and Georgia (two States more ad'
vanced in cotton manufacturing than any IN
the South) to F. E. Harrison, of Anderson.
vile, s. c., for similar yarns made BY him.
A large yarn commission house Of New ork
writes: we have lately seen in the Philadel.
phia market, some Of your 'neW,process'
yarns. They are the best we have ever seen.
We would be pleased to have a consignment
can dispose Of any amount at the highest
prices"
OPINIONS OF THE ATTACHMENT.
DR.. J.L. Lawton, an experienced farmer
and man of fine observation, said: s'.
Il am firmly convinced that this little ma.
chine will revolutionize the South. 1t will
result in the manufacture of yarns on our plan
tations in time, just as regularly as we now
have plantation ginning or, grist mills for
corn. The result Of this will be marvellous.
Just think of it. When you gin your cotton
it brings you or 9 cents. When you gin
and spin it, it brings you 1907 II cents.
You see that this process will about double
the value of our crops. I believe that it will
revolutionize our whole system, and change
the manufacturing system Of the world"
"Do you find it all you expected?" ~.
"My answer is this: I have friend IN
Monroe county who has a house in which ne
could run two of these mills. He asked me
to come and examine the mill and advise him
what to do. have done so, and shall advise
him to go to work and put in his mills. am
lust as certain that it will pay him handsome.
ly as 1 can be of anything. With his two
mills costing about $4,000, he can, ] believe,
make over $3,0OO clear profit every year.
1 shall advise him to 60 into it tor his coming
CROP" ...,,..fn...t s,. .,,y -
Mr.. H. I. Kimball says: II am fully salts
fed from examination, that the Clement at.
tachment will do all that is claimed for it. 1t
is Just what expected it would be. II think
it is destined to work great good in the South
I do not reason about it exactly as others DO.
The fact that it does work on the plantations,
that it gives the farmer a product worth II
cents, when the farm work now done gives him
a product worth only eight or nine cents, is
of course good thing in local sense. But
the main thing is, it puts profit of two cents
a pound on the working of cotton that cannot
be had by any other process. 1t thus adds
two cents, for every pound of cotton spun, 70
the wealth of the world, I mean that after
paying all the expenses there is, by this pro-
cess two cents put upon the value of every
pound of cotton that can be put there in no
other way. ....tI Igs, ;, 3.i
II am satisfied it will pay % to 40 per
cent. profit on any sort of proper manage,
ment. do not believe it is valuable alone
for farmers. I think capital Of s25O,0oo
put into these attachments and managed
would pay bigger than any cotton
mill that can be run. Two centsia pound is
an enormous margin of profit. In the. cotton
factories single cent is run into hundredths
and thousandths parts. Two cents pound
profit seems like fortune to such men.
Judge j. Henderson, the commissioner OF
agriculture, says:1"I have figured on the
thing from every possible standpoint, and l
cannot see possibly why q single Clement
should not pay from $l,8OO to
$4,000 year. It ought not to cost over
S3;5OO, which makes fine showing These
young men have, by the figures l have here,
made about 81, 800 per annum, and that, too,
with secondhand machinery. l think these
attachments, put on plantations and worked
by q neighborhood of farmers, with one Of
them to superintend it, will do great good,
and will prove perfectly safe and profitable
I shall advise the putting up OF
these attachments wherever these conditions
can be had. am thoroughly satisfied with
the examination / have made, and found the
Clement Mill all that had been led to ex'
pect." s. n..,a ~,
Mr.. Fred Bell says: ~ was astonished at
the simplicity and efficiency Of the Clement
mill. I consider it the greatest agent for
change and progress that the South has ever
introduced. believe that it will gradually,
and more rapidly than we expect, take the
place of the gins on the plantations. You
see, it will rapidly be cheapened. Allnew IN
ventions cost enormously. As they get into
use, they are simpli6ed and improved, and
the royalty charged on them is diminished
that cost 5000 and over at
first, can now be had for 500 to S75. As these
mills are multiplied; they will be- greatly
cheapened. Do you know one Of the great
est advantages that will result from these
mills is that it will encourage small croppers? !?
In the North every child and woman has her
little home patch or garden. She sells what
she raises, and it is her money that she gets
for it. In the South we see little of that, be-
cause cotton is the great crop, and none OF
the women and children about farm could
hope to raise bale What they do raise is
ginned, packed in the general bale, and sent
off to market, and she never hears of it.
Under this plan a cash market is furnished
for seed cotton in any quantity. A girl can
raise her fifty pounds Of cotton, put it in
bag and 90 to mill and get her money. In
this way they will be encouraged to work,
and we shall thus utilize great deal of labor
now wasted"
Mr.. D. u. Sloan said that sort of death
penalty followed the Clement Attachment.
Clement, who inventedit, died before he could
push it. Gen. Harrison, of Andersonville,
S. c., saw one in operation and put him up
one. Before he could establish its merits, be
died. The striblings happened to see it and
built one, and DR.. Gatchel happened to see
theirs. He got it into the newspapers, and
now everybody is talking about it. -.
THE ANDERSON MILL. ......
The following letter from Mr.. F. 3. Harri.
,on relates the complete success Of the "new
process mill" at Anderson, s. c.;
The "new process" cotton factory, estab-
lished at Andegsonville, S. c., in April last, is
q complete success Mr.. F. E. Harrison; the
wrote few weeks after commen-
cling work as follows. 1t may be we'll to state
that he has but one card and attachment;
Tam glad to say that my little mill is run
ming steadily, and we have worked it up to