The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-07
Cnaton.MiIIs Ana ,he sonih.

The Lafayette Mill, new c0tton.mill be-
Ing built at Company's Shops, N. c., have
placed their orders for machinery as follows :
Pickers and lappers with Kitson Machine
Company, Lowell, Mass; Foss q Peyey
cards, railway heads, spinning and drawing
frames, speeders, twisters, and reels at
Lowell Machine-Sbop; engine by Wright,
of Newburgh, N. Y. This mill is TO make
chain warp yarn, about number 20s.
The superintendent, Lafayette Holt, came
north from Graham, N. c., about three
years ago, since which time he has been
learning the machinery business at the
Lowell Machlne-Shop and setting up ma
chipery in different mills. He has In this
way acquired O practical knowledge that
will be OF great value In his new position.
In this way O number Of young men from
the South are now engaged in preparing
themselves for manufacturing business.
The Boston Journal Of Commerce, in its
issue OF the I'd instant, discourses as follows
on the above item:
In another column will be found an item
which amounts simply TO the fact that par
ties In southern cities, who have had an eye
TO the manufacturing OF cotton, put one of
their young men into the Lowell Machine
Shop as an apprentice for three years. Here
he has been Taught 10 bit and erect the differ.
ent machinery employed in the varions pro-
cesses. After be became proficient in that he
was then sent out with the men whose bust.
ness IL is to erect and adjust the machinery
at the different mills, and TO see 1t pro-
perly put into working condition with the
cotton IN the machine. Having served his
three years time faithfully and successfully,
the people al home have now organized a
company and are to build mill, OF which
he Is 20 have the practical management. IL
this Is the way our southern friends are
taking hold OF the business, 1t is high time
that some of our northern people looked
sharply after their laures. Professional min.
compoeps, the favored sons OF some wealthy
stockhOlder, or some other relative, who, 10
times past, has had too much to do with the
active management OF the mills, VIII not
now stand so good a chance. II land the
case we have cited is not an isolated one)
this Is 10 be the practice OF the southern
people, IL Will relieve them entirely aud for
ever from depending upon the so-called
practical men, for whom they have hereto
fore been compelled TO look to the North,
and if'they are TO make their own sons prac.
4ical manufacturers by an apprenticeship of
several years in the machlne.shOp, and in
.erecting and managing machinery, they will
sceFtainly have made the best practical talent
sa1aHablefor their OWE benefit.
Bat this Is net the OHiy matter that is pro.
guessing ut tue South. We can count at the
moaae0t more than twenty different mills
which are projected, sEd fully that number
whiets are now being b9ilt. Recently seye.
RAJ northern men, or capitalists, either iRdi.
yidu,&ty or,cohectively, have made PROPOSE
tons Ser the erection Of cotton.mills at.Va-
rious, points in the South. We have du.
ring the present week had interviews With
two parties whe are lust from the South,
and we believe they do not Oyerstate the,
thing wAan they say that the subject Of
making. eolton-ysTns and cotton goods
Is ouif,g ak fevef-beat ,ik various Por-
ions OF the southern States Aud this is !
lot from anything except legitimate causes. |
A large 4 aslority OF che cottoa-mills OF the |
south hay been very prosperous, and with |
N increas ed population there Is no reason
gby much 1sece cotton shall net De manu-
actured In be South, and great many Of l.
be various tnas OF ,eoarser aEd medium
GODS can be ASIDE there at positive ad.
sntape. IL is neatly the commencement
an era whiC b nay be properly denomi-
ated the new al Vi progressive Sopth. This
ctuai application, ~ means aud skAii to the
Productive indus tfAas ~ q most material
iyanee, and Ger. 'SSAiy enters upon the
,ad or material p. feffeSs. the people OF
e South nave con se 20 leok at cotton !
IN and Iaboring. N "a with very differ '
L view from their opinions OF twenty q
airs ago. The cotton Esd weeflen'mis OF
.day takes IN lis wax ga variety OF pro- :
essiye aud educational matters. IL he- 2
fires an amount OF SIX aBa eduear a
10 which the so.calltI arisiOcraile
lsses know nothing OF, for the educa- '
a OF one Is practical and the otber tneo' z
zeal; and Notwithstanding we OCCASION q
y read a magazine article, written Dysome "
oby, that the "belp" In manufacturing re
lagos are trough and uncouth," We iaii pr
New England 10 ind that the hcip DC
as trough and unc0uthV As some VI ine ial
uld.be arlstocrats, who are arisioctatIc OF
J because they were born with silver ta