The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-12-09

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with looms has been variously estimated
at fifteen to twenty-five horse power.
All speeds have been accelerated since
the introduction of the American ring
spindle, let us take lin medal the ratio
of twenty horse power. For 10000, 600
spindles with looms, this ratio demands
100000 horse power.
COUNTING THE COST.
The steam engines of the country will
average, suppose, a consumption of six
pounds of coal per horse power per hour,
or go pounds per day of 10 hours work.
At this rate there will be required
24,00O,0O pounds of coal daily, or $4,000
tons, to do the amount, of duty required.
I suppose the average cost of coal will be
81, to cover prime cost, freight, drayage,
labor and storage. Here we have a
charge for steam fuel alone of $4,000
per day, and for working year Of 9l2
days of sl5,OOO,OOO. Add to this The
wages of engineers, tiremen and laborers
to handle the coal, the excess of repair,
cost of engines over that of turbines, the
excess of oil required Ia few gils daily
are sufficient for turbine of 100 horse
power making eighty revolutions per
minute), the greater cost of engines, the
unavoidable outlay for engine and boiler
houses and stacks, and the somewhat
increased danger of fire, and it seems
that $15,000,000 is low estimate of the
annual cost of steam power for 1000, 600
of spiudles with looms. What would
be the cost with water power9 The city
ofAugusta, Ga.,. has built a magnificent
canal, which furnishes now to 10000
horse power, with. capacity of great
increase, at the annual charge of $3.50
per horse power, or II cents per horse
power per day. One hundred horse
power on this canal will cost a manufac,
turer $3.50 per annum. This splendid
climate, with cheap building materials,
abundant and cheap labor, teachable,
tractable, thankful for employment and
utter unacquainted with "strikes" and
State taxation-three tenths of one per
cent.-to be reduced rather than increas'
ed, for the State finances are in most
satisfactory condition. Georgia has
floated four per cent. bonds at par, fnan-
cial feat, believe, not paralleled by any
other State. Manufactures are firmly
established there and very remunerative'
Stocks are far above par. At the water
rent fixed by the city of Augusta the
400 900 horse power estimated would cost
S2,2OO,000 instead of S15,000,O00 by
steam saving of nearly sl3,000,00O
annually, and Of $25O,000,O00 in twenty
years. If these estimates are even ap'
proximately correct, there can be nc
doubt of the greatly superior economy ol
water over steam.
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.
Water power abounds in North and
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
and is 10 be found in other Southern
States. At Augusta the supply can be
doubled when needed. At Macon a
similar canal is practicable, which can
furnish an immense power. Near Co.
lumbia, S. c., is a magnificent power
At Athens, Ca, and its immediate
vicinity there are numerous falls of great
capacity. At Tallahassee, and at other
points in Alabama, the falls are very
fine. Chattahoochee river, in this State,
falls 112 feet in distance of 12 miles
with the successful manufacturing city o.
Columbus at the lower end of the falls
Here are the celebrated Eagle & Pheni1
Mills, pride to the city, to the State
and to the Union. The river, rising tai
away among the mountains of upper
Georgia affords many admirable site:
along its course. The Tallula, in Rabur
county, falls $50 feet in one mile at Tai
lula Falls, so we'll known for its pictur
esoue beauty and sublimity of its grane
chasm. The James river, in Virginia
has great fall as its flows through tha
famed valley where Pocahontas and
Capt. Smith wandered, before Hargreave!
invented the upright spindle to be driver
by steam or water power. Many OF you
readers have seen and admired the beau
tiful rapids at Richmond. The Ostenau
Ia, Etowah and Chickamauga rivers, il
upper Georgia, all afford water power
At Tangipahoa, in Louisiana, l under
stand there is very fine power. Bu'
there is enough for all, for perhaps 6
hundred years to come. The Union vii
certainly need the 2O,000,00O spindles b!
the year 1900. Where shall the new mill
be located? There are mills that receiy
cotton loose, "in the seed" in two ant
four.horse wagon loads, direct from tn
field; weigh it on wagon scales IN IN
mill yard, as you do hay, gin 1T IN tn'
mill and convert it into yarns immcdl
ately. have often seen seed cotton recclv
cd in this way in the morning and spu!
into faultlcss yarns before night. Thi
saves the trouble and expense of baline
Even when balcd, it reaches the South
crn spinner in the loosely packed plan
ter's package, not after compression ITO
shipmcnt) under great pressure Q
many hundred tons into a bulk abou
onc.fifth that of the planters bale, il
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