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

| oSaA.0o III viz Couth tuuu any Otner Bectl0D
in'tho world. l don't say South Carolina
alone, but sho has as good chance as any.
she grows as much cotton in tho sections
"hero factories would bo likcly to start,
and has climate equal to any in the world,
She has superior advantages to those Of
New England, of Old England and of
lndla. Wo have great advantage with
respect to labor, and the advantage with
respect to the procuring Of the raw mato--
aial is immense. i, We can ship our goods
to tho Wcstcrn markets just as cheapy as
they can from Lowell, aud at the same
time save all tho freights, commissions,
steuIagc, Insurance and risk on the cotton
we have all advantage Of fully ceuts on
a pound over the New England manufac--
turer. | don't think VIC need any National
legislation to encourage mauufac,urers ia
tho South. If the question of manufac-
lures is taken into Congress it will bo bound
to 60 against tho Southern manufacturing
interests. AS to State legislation, think
that the
EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION
for ten years on all new machinery should
be continued. This exemption is nee
essary to placo this State on q footing with
other States where it is in force. / thipk
tho exemption should be on the capital
stock of the company. Our property has
increased in value under the present man
agement 30 per cent, as Is shown by tho
sale of our stock in the market at 13O."
AS to the relative cost Of running fac,
tory by steam and water power, Mr.. Foster
said: "That is matter wtich depcnds
greatly upon tho situation. If you can
lind water power on the line of railroad it
possesses ali the ADVANTAGES of stcnm aud is
cheaper, but if it is located away from the
railroad where you have to haul your goods
1t cannot be compared with atcam near the
railroad. The first cost of applying water
power is greater than steam. 4 steam mill
could be established in Charleston near one
OF tho wharves to as much advantage as
anywhere in South: Carolina, provided YOU
have railroad running to the factory go
that tho cotton can be delivered q, the mill
and the manufactured goods be shipped
directly FROM the mill by rail or water.
Under such circumstances
| n STEAM MILL IN CHARLESTON,
where coal can be obtained cheaply, and
where thcro is market for cotton all tho
year round, would be cheap as any water
power in tho country"
How about the Cement attachment? 1
asked. What do you think of it? Mr..
Foster replied: ~ think tho Clcmont At
tachmcnt is humbug. | might as we'll
call things by their right namco. rs
practical man I should object to it on its me-
chanical construction. I believe that
manufacturing is special business that
requires skilled and educated labor, which
the planter cannot command without paying
Tor IT. A small factory connot be compared
to q large one with respect to tie cost Of
production, and the profits on small
machine, auch as the Clement Attachment
men propose, would be 80 omall that it
would not pay to employ tho class of labor
which would be necessary to mako a otyle of
goods which would otand tho test of the
| market. This Clement Attachment is
simply revival of the Henry Attachment,
which proved failure thirty years ago."
lp answer to further inquiries Mr.. Foster
stated that
LABOR WAS VERY PLENTIFUL
and that they could get 20 per cent more
than was required to run tho. mill. The
operatives; iic said, are made up entirely of
the people born and raised right in the
vicinity. Tho oyerseers are New. England
men. One half of the stock 10 held in
New York and the other half is equally di-
vded between Charleston and Augusta.
The cost of land in South Carolina is almost
nominal. Mr.. Foster said: "The land
around langley YVES not worth dollar an
acre few years ago. 1t is now, of courgc,
without the improvements, inoreased 10
value more than hundred per cent. The
health of the place when we first took hold
was not good, but by thorough drainage
and stlict sanitary regulations. wo have
made it as healthy as any place could be.
We have had but thirty deaths 10 three
years, and fifteen of these were iufahts."
The Langley Factory ia 10 good hands,
and with continuation of the present IA
vorablo condition of affairs it cannot fail
to yield net profit of 20 to 25 per cent
on the capital Invested during the ensuing
year.
The Red Bamlk Manufacturing
Company.
This is t.,e name of q thriving little
cotton factory situated on Red Bank Creek,
in Lexington County, about Ii miles from
Columbia The factory which was erected
in 1873, is twostory frame building, l2O
| by IS feet, with picker room attached
IS by 25 feet The company was 6rst or.
gaDiacd in 1873, With Mr.. j. p. Southern
as President Mr. John Green 10 Supcrin.
| tendcnt and Mr.W. Q. Swafficld as Secretary
and Treasurer. Mr.. Grcen now fills tho
position of President and Superintendent,
and MIR. Swaffiold remains Secretary and