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

ms COTTON 1dct0ry 10 SITUATED three
and half miles from the town. of
Pendleton, on "Twenty-three Nile
Creek" and is within easy distance of
the Blue Ridge Railroad. The mill is
owhed BY Coll A. j. Sittou and j. w.
Norris, Esq. Col. Sittoh Is The president
of the company, II. p. Sitton Is secretary
and treasurer; and B. +. Wilson is super
intendent. The factory Is constructed of
red brick and is two stofiss high. The
main building is l5O by 90 feet, and the
machine shop and packer room is rs by
Is feet. The mill was built in 1888, and
was run by company of which Mr. B.
T. Sloan was president up to 1866. IL
was then bought by Messrs. Grady, Ham,
iltoh and Perry. This copartnership was
dissolved, and the mill ftll into the bands
Of Mr.. Perry, WHO 0fganizcd the Pendle-
ton Manufacturing Company, and ope-
rated the mill under that name. The
Spmpany, was unsuccessful and failed.
The bohdholdefs bodGht 1t In and ran it
for fifteen months and then 1t Hass 10
Col. Sitton and Mr.. Norris for SIC, 1850.
The mill has been put in good repair By
its present owners, sId tha machinery
has been renewed with all the latest i'm
provements. The capital invested is
$20.00C. The capacity OF the mill Is
1000 spindles. The consumption Of raw
cotton for the mohth tnGlng Oath Jan
uary was 23,767 pounds. The prediction
during the same time was 22,118
pounds of bunch yarns and chain warps
f:om No. 4 10 No. 12. The waste in the
process, # manufacture was ! ,649 pounds.
which is only 60 per cent. A less
waste than any other mill in the State
shows. The cost of the cotton for the
same ihonth Wis 1908 cents per pound,
or total cost of $255S 81. The total
expenses for the month, including opera
tives' wages, salaries aud supplies, were
$3.50 18. The yarn manufactured sold
form % to 233 cents per pound. The
gross receipts, therefore, for the produc-
ton during tho month were 1866 Sc.
The total cost of manufacture was ST.
768 40. and
THE NET PRGrIT FOR THE MONTH WAS
$2,O9S 81.
This ia very magnificent showing,
and If the came rate Of profits continue
throughout the year the Capital will doh-
bic itself. Of course the expenses of
shipment, idsuiaico; dfayage and COM
missions must be deducted from the
Piohto "s 6foh aoo'o, put PiaciuS tnuoo
expenses at the very highest figures they
cent; and on the other side there were
ings and notes which would swell the
profits.
The mill is now engaged in working OF
an order for q lot of and 81 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.
spINNERs RECEIVE 40 CENTS PER DAY,
and the highest price paid per day for
any operative is ST. rs. These operatives
are accommodated in 35 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 63 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 $4,000. 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 conversed, stated
that he had been working his mill since
last April under contract. For the 10
months previous to that time it was
pretty hard TO get along. Now they
were always behindhand in their WORK.
seThe demand for our goods" said Col.
Sitton, "is unprecedented, and for the
next FIVE years, at least, there is q great
deal of money in the business. The re-
vival of trade all over the country helps
US, and there is not day that do not
have TO decline orders"
About the Clement attachment, Col.
Sitton said: "I have never seen one of
the machines. have seen the yarn and
it is good. Ihave nothing to say against
the quality of tho 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 q great saving
from the fact that the planter need not
bale his cotton, while the truth is that
tae planter makes money on all the bag
ging and ties he uses. He pays 81 25 for
them and gets SO 10 on every bale for the
additional weight. Another objection
have to it is that / am told thet it does
not gin clean. II this is SO the percent
age of waste must be veiy great. They
can't work their waste over like we can 9
portion ofit, by running it through the
cards again, because they can't get 1t to
the cards without running it through the
gin, and it won't go through the gin
without the seed. In my opinion, the
only 20 il viii be found profitable to put
it 10 is to work up the cotton on small
plantation. They say that they consume
800 pounds of seed cotton aud turn ont
160 pounds ofyarn per day. There must
be como mistake here, because the very
best gins do not turn out more than 166
pounds of lint cotton to 500 pounds OF
seed cotton. This would leave them only
Six pounds waste IN manufacturing 100
pounds of yarn. There are many other
reasons why think the machines will
not do what is claimed for them.n
Thhe Ioudistun factory ESQ gins 175
bales of cotton. and cards 1000 pounds
of wool for the surrounding farmers. This
pays 10 cents q pound for carding the
wool, and toll of1-16 for ginning.
The recent success achieved By this
factory as compared with its past Difficult.
ties, shows very conolusively that good
management Is the prime factor of sue.
cess in cotton factory. - C4ayleston Ne,cl
dnS Courier.
THE COMING CENsUs.-The penalties
| foe obstrueting the census takers, who
begin their labofs on the first Monday il
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