Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-15

II Otcody increase ah We Pdtac or 1Nctr
Capital The Annual Profits Ranging
from lS to 50 per cent.-1He Advan
tagcs Over Northern Hills Ten Thou
sand Persons Employed, OF Supported
--An Almost Unlimited Field tor the
,Lucrativc Employment Of Home and
Foreign Capital.
ring Company.
THIS ia SIN all but we'll arranged factory,
and is located s miles West of the towo of
Spartauburg, on tho Middle Tiger River.
1t is owned by w. L Morgan Brothers
aud Co, aud the entire properly, including
600 acres of cultivated land aud II gin, is
valued at $4,000. Tho company WIS
organized in 1876. Tho factory runs $50
spindles, aud manufactures 8, 8 and 10
yarns. 1t also hos II looms which arc not
now used. Twelve operatives, all white,
are employed ut 40 average OF 334 cents
per day, aud l20 persons arc oil dependent
upon the factory for u support Residences
are furnished, rent free, to the operatives
by tho company. The factory consum mes
3O0 pounds of raw cottou per Gay, aud
produces 285 pounds of yarn per day.
The force Of the stream is 100 horse power,
horse power of which is nscd with o
lIafcl's Turbine wheel, aud with fall of
IL feet. Tho running time is IL hours
day The machinery is all American aud
is in very good condition.
*'WHAT DOES THIS LITTLE FACTORY pAY?"
asked Mr.. w. l.. Morgan, tho senior
member of the firm.
ut pays 20 per cent. on the capital
invested. 1t would pay moro if we had
new machinery and had more capacity.
We propose to enlarge the factory very
shortly to capacity Of 1000 pounds of
yarn per day. We scll our gouds here and
in New York and philsdelpbia. We cant
near supply tho demand could have
sold all the yarn l could make ia year
20 one man. During tho last year VIC were
running 27S2 days. We consumed
$1,000 POUNDS OF COTTON
and produced T3 300 pounds of yarn. Our
pay roll for the year was 1880 80 aud our
supply account was $780, Tho cost of
manufacture ut this miil is 44-l00 cents
per pound, and yarns sell for % cents per
pound The prospect for manufacturers
in this State is extremely promising. 1t ia
brighter than 1t has been Tor five years.
think with the exemption from tuxation of
all new machinery u great deal of capital
will find its way into this business during
the next few years. So far us
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is concerned, have never seen it but
don't think it will pay. Nothing big can
be made out of it. The expense of hand
ling spd storing the seed cotton will be
very great 1t will take experienced labor
to make good yarn and cluth that will holu
its own in the markets, and dout SC"
how such small concern can afford to nav
for skilled labor"
"liow about negro abor2" 1 asked.
81 don't think negro labor can be en-
ployed," ho said, 'in connection with the
white operatives. aud l doo't think the
negro can be educated in tho business
sufficiently to make II good operative"
The factory of the Charlottesville Manu-
faoturing Compnny is two ond half story
frame building on stone foundation The
company also owns another valuable water
power at Collins Sho,ls, five miles of,
which they claim could be made to produce
one .hundrcd horse power by an outlay Of
$500.
l think tho argument 10 favor of the
establishment of cotton manufactures in
South Carolina, which the results of thia
factory present, is uDausweruble. Twenty
five per cent. at q locality eight miles re-
moved from the slightest vesiigc of civil
lized habitntion and with roads in condi-
tion just about as bad as they could we'll
be.
The BatesvilIe Factory.
This factory has the dstiLctnJh of being
one OF the old pioneers, and is of historic
intereet: During the var very urge and
profitable business was carried on, and
thousands of yards of the cloth that covered
the Confederate soldiers Was woven within
its walls. The factory is located on Rocky
Creek, in Greenvilo County, which sup
plies forty horse power. The factory lost
money and failed. 1t was sold in Novem-
ber last and was purchased by George
Putnam, of GrcenviIle, for $4,000. It has
1852 spindles and so looms. Tho opera
tions at present arc confined entirely to tho
spinning Of yarns from No. to No. IL.
New machinery for the manufacture of
twisted yarns has been ordered, md will 30
put into operation shortly. The consump-
tlon of raw cotton is 1900 pounds per day,
and the daily production is 1850 pounds
of yurn Mr. Honrp g pu+non, n krotb n.