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

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chmen with common top fiat card and Welman stpper is
causes the card, with the same amount Of
motive power, to do I'VE times as much work
saves one half the usual waste, and produces
stronger silver, rove and thread than can be
made of baled cotton, which,, on account Of
their extra strength, seldom break or let
down, thereby enabling operatives to attend
more machinery and each machine to do,more
work. The thread is equal in every respect
to that made of baled cotton, fifty per cent
stronger and more sheeny. ...-..,
The attachment supercedes the gin, press
and compress, because they are intended and
only used to render cotton transportable the
willower, lapper, double lapper, breaker, and
four.ffths of the cards, because they are only
used to try to remedy the injury done by the
gin, press and compress it supercedes the
railway, railway drawing head, also all jack
frames, shubbers, mules, twisters, eveners
&c., &C., simply because they are costly and
unnecessary machines, and perfect thread can
be made without them. ta.T .sa~ .
.u.. THE REASON WHY sgl,..-..
the card will tdo FIVE times as much, using
seed cotton and the same amount of motive
power, as it did by the old process, using
! baled cotton, is because the 6laments are not
allowed to leave the machinery, fly or become
tangled, but are kept straight and parallel,
and carding is but the Strengthening of the
cotton flaments. The saving of one half the
usual waste is because fresh, live cotton is
used, and half the usual machinery dispensed
with. The extra strength of the thread and
skein is owing to the working of the cotton
fresh from the seed, the oil Of which has kept
it alive, light. elastic and flexible, with all its
alternating qualities perfect; and the fact
that it has never been mapped, cut nor tangled
by the gin, pressed, compressed, or permitted
to become dry, seasoned sor3 brittle in this
tangled condition, nor has it been injured by
the willower, lapper, double lapper, breaker,
and cards, where the damage done by the
gin, press, and compress are sought to be RENE
are, are not half that are claimed for the "new
process" ..... s,,s -ta. fn .s,- .fHra .Ei
The entire capital necessary for the small
est size new process mills, including building
and motive power, is only $500, and will
pay a net profit Of 80 to so, per cent. per
annum. (See report Of Westminster Mills, at
Westminster, S. c. 1t saves all expense,
loss, waste, drayage, perquisites, general
average accounts, stealage and speculation,
&C., on cotton in transitu from the field to
the factory, be that distance Is or $4,000
miles, as from India to Manchester, England.
WHAT IS SAVED.
The ginning, baling, bagging and ties are
saved the seed inure to the manufacturers; !;
no loss from falsely packed cotton, no strikes
among operatives, for it is the poor mans
factory, and his daughters are the operatives.
Take bale IF cotton on farm in the Gen.
tral portion of this State, and see the expen-
ses, &c., in sending it to Boston, Mass. Haul.
ing to the nearest town, sampling. weighing,
deduction from two to four pounds from
each bales actual weight, profits to purchaser,
freight and insurance to market, drayage to
cotton shed, storage, insurance, dress samp.
ling, commissions for selling, general average
accounts brokerage for buying, dress boring,
second weighing, repairs, drayage to com
press, COMPRISING, drayage to steamer or
depot, freight and insurance to Boston, loss
on bills of exchange, &c. To these add
waste, loss, damage drayage, and stealage, all
the expenses, speculations, &c., of the
guerillas of the South and the great cotton
kings of the North, also the expenses in our
seaport towns (where it is, or was recon-
pressed to be shipped to Europe,) the ex-
penses and profits of the shipment. and the
expenses after its arrival there until it is sold
to the manufacturer. Now, if to all these
you add the expenses, profits, &C., of the
manufactured goods returned South, you will
have some idea of what middlemen receive,
and what the new process will save, when
generally adopted, to our impoverished but
still beloved South .a F.. .'
THE EXPERIMENT TESTED.
The following letter from the Westminster
Manufacturing Company shows the success
that has been achieved by the pioneer mill
in this State: ...:. ...' .-.... .. ...
"Our little New Process Yarn Mill is sit
uated on branch of Choestoe Greek, two
miles distant from Westminster, on the Air
Line Railroad.
"Our organization, known as the West
minister Manufacturing Company, is compos.
ed of farmers who raise a small amount of
cotton as a surplus. We were led to investi.
gate this enterprise in November, 1877, by
the experiment of the late Col. F. E. Har-
rison, of Andersonville, S. c., and were ad.
vised by him that our crop of 1875, amount
ing to $4,000 pounds of seed cotton, would
be sufficient to run one set Of machinery for
five or six months. Accordingly we agreed to
hold the crop and 60 into the enterprise. We
then purchased the following machinery, viz {:
One Clement Attachment, one 36.inch Well
man top fiat cards (these were all new and
combined all the principles of the Clement
Attachment for converting seed cotton direct
ly into sliver,) one four-delivery Danforth
drawing frame, one twelve.bobbin Danforth
speeder, two Danforth spinning frames, 1872
spindles each; two reels, one bunch-press,
and one bale press, Gall good second hand.)
This completed the list of machinery of our
new process mill, of capacity of 100000
pounds seed cotton per annum, and cost
$4,000. For building, motive power, furnish
ing, &c., 81 200 more was expended, making
an investment of $1,000. On the 1st OF
April, 1878, we began to operate. Our opera
tives consisted of seven young girls Of the
neighborhood who had never seen cot
ton factory, and one young man Of ofexperience,
who operated the card and trained these raw
hands. A son of one of the proprietors, q
Young man of no experience in the business,
but with fine scholarly attainments, gradu-
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