Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-24
YORK COTTON MILLS.

A number of citizens of Yorkville and vi.
cinity, impressed with the practicability and
advantages of cotton manufacturing in those
communities where the staple is produced,
have determined to organize a cotton mill at
Yorkville, South Carolina, under the above
name, for the purpose Of spinning yarns. A
capital Of twenty-five thousand dollars has al
ready been subscribed to the enterprise by
citizens of the town of Yorkville, and a tenn
porary organization effected by the election of
JOSEPH F. WALLACE, President; T. S. JET
FERYs, Treasurer; J. L. CLARK, r. j. LAT
ia, L. NJ. GRIsT and F. HAPPERFIELD, Di.
rectors. AS soon as capital of seventy-fve
thousand dollars is subscribed, permanent
organization will be perfected, in such form as
may be most acceptable to majority of the
stockholders.
1t is condition of these subscriptions, that
the full amount of capital necessary'to build,
equip and operate the factory, be subscribed
before any subscriptions are to be paid The
enterprise must be started free of any liability
and upon it's own capital
1t is proposed to locate the mill at York
vile, and operate it by steam power. This
place possesses advantages of abundant and
cheap labor, cheap and abundant fuel, and the
amplest facilities of communication with COM
mercial centres by rail and wire
AS to the practicabilty of steam as sue
cessful motive power in comparison with
water, the most careful Investigations have
been made, the results of which have con-
vinced all who have become interested in the
enterprise, that steam-power, under ordinarily
favorable conditions, can be used as advanta-
geously as water power. The following are
some of the reasons:
The original outlay of capital is from one
fourth to one-thfrd less for a given amount of
machinery. The production is greater and
the work better, arising in great part from the
certainty, steadiness and thorough control of
the motive power. All these advantages COM
bined in the opinion of the most eminent
mill engineers, and under the experience of
practical operators, place steam power practi-
cally on a level with water power, while many
who have used both, claim the superior advan-
tages of steam. At the request of the stock
holders, Mr.. Joseph +. Wallace, the tempora-
ry President of the organization, and Mr.. A.
w. Ingold, recently visited the steam woolen
and cotton mills of Messrs. f. & H. Fries, at
Salem, N. c., for the purpose of obtaining in
formation from parties who have been engaged
in operating factory machinery with steam
power From the written report of these gen
tlemen, submitted to the stockholders, we
make the following extract
1.-The Salem Woolen Mills, as they are ia
miliarly known, have been in operation ever
since the year 1910, during the whole of which
period they have been driven by steam power
only, not being even situated on water course.
The experience and practical knowledge, there
fore, of the proprietors, as between steam and
water, has been confined exclusively to the for.
mer as the motive power, and they could not
institute that comparison which they said
might be necessary, in view of conflicting
opinions as to the relative merits OF either,