Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-07
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COTTON FACTORIES.

COIION FACIOkl ES.
On THE TRAIN, March 23.-"It is my de-
liberate opinion that England has seen hel
last cotton factory built, and her last compa
ny organized for the home manufacture o
cotton. Of course there may be reorganiza
tions of existing companies, and additions tc
mills now up. But there will be no more
progress in the English manufacture Of cotton
goods"
Thus said Mr. Grant, one of the most ex
tensive Of our dealers in mill machinery and
supplies, in an interesting conversation with
your correspondent.
"Why do you predict this ?" l asked.
"Smply because the English mills cannot
compete with American mills. American
made goods are outselling English goods ev
cry day in Manchester and Liverpool. In the
first place, American mill men are smarter
and more progressive, and in the next place
they have the reputation of furnishing more
reliable goods. We have not learned over
here the secret of weaving white dirt or kao
lin into our cotton fabrics. In England the
manufacture of cotton employs three classes
the spinners sizers and weavers. The sizers
charge nothing for their work beyond the
weight they add to the yarns by sizing. They
buy the yarns by weight-work in lot OF
kaoln and the increase of weight from the
clay gives them their profit. When you
buy American goods, however, you get pure
cotton goods. This fact, added to <he shrewd
ness of our people,. has enabled them to sell
in English markets proftably."
SIS there no possibility of over-production
in cotton goods?'
mot the slightest. The statistics show that
over three quarters of the people of this globe
are to. day clothed in handmade fabrics. 1t
Lis impossible for US to conceive of such pro.
ducton rs will oversupply the legitimate de.
mand that will arise as our goods are pushed
into foreign markets and into those countries
where hand made cloths are still used Why
the Piedmont mills of South Carolina have
just made, through Woodward, Baldwin &
Co., contract for large amount of goods
ordered for Africa.
"And the Massachusetts, mills, of Lowell,
said Mr.. Parham, of the Kilsin machine
works, who had been An interested listener
"has just closed a contract for eight months
supply of their entire mills for shipment tc
China. This is their third order from China
and each one is larger than the former. They
sell to China at handsome profit, and mill
men generally believe that in. China and ia,
pan is found an inexhaustible and reliable
market
"There is no use talking about American
mills overriding the thing, for they have the
world for their market. They have a great
advantage over the English mills in machin
cry. American machinery will do the same
work just as efficiently and weighs thirty to
forty per cent less takes much less room, and
is much less complicated than English ma
chinery. If the Atlanta mill was fitted up
with English machinery it would have to
have walls of double the thickness and give
one.fourth more room than it now occupies
1t may safely be said that cotton manufacture
in America, already an enormous industry
is on the dawn of stimulation and develop
ment not dreamed of few years ago."
"Where will this development be most
markedly"
"Unquestionably in the South. Beyond
the fact that new mills are springing up in
that section rapidly, and that those establish.
ed are earning big dividends, the logic Of
things proves that the South is destined to be
the great cotton manufacturing section. Cap
ital is all that is needed, and that is flowing
southwark with great rapidity."
81 see signs through the South of manu-.
featuring fever" said Mr.. Parham. "There
is no lack of capital when good men take
hold of an enterprise and get it into shape.
There are the Clifton mills at Glendale, S. c.,
that were put up with 5000 spindles Be.
fore the machinery was all in, the stockhol.
ders added 10000 additional spindles, thus
more than doubling the mill before it was
started. A great many mills throughout the
South are increasing their capacity. A capi.
tai of 100000 has been raised for the Charles
ton mill, and it will be organized next week
There is much more machinery being sold in
the South than in the North.'
am able to add bit of evidence concern.
ing the popularity of investments in Southern
mills. Mr.. M. J. Verdery, of Augusta, is in
New York, placing the S350,000 stock with
which it is proposed to more than double the
Enterprise mills. Of the extra stock, $780,,
900 has been taken in Augusta. On the first
day in New York, Messrs. Smith q Baldwin
subscribed $4,000 to the stock. Mr.. V. K.
Stevenson is reported to have taken $4,000
stock in the new Sibley mills, and to have
asked for $4,000 more. Being informed
that he could not getit. he will probably put
the extra 100000 in the Enterprise. | hear
on good authority that parties in New York
have offered to put S500,000 cash into new
factory in Atlanta, if Mr.. Sam. Inman will
take charge Of it. 1t really looks as if the
south's time WAS coming at last. and her prac.
tical independence was a possibility. The
cotton exposition will be tremendous agent
in the development of our resources.
l notice that the export of cotton goods
from America last year was over sl2,0OO,OOO,
being gain of nearly half million on the
year before. Goods were shipped, to the
West Indies, Mexico, China, Japan, Cuba,
Brazil, Africa, Hayti, Uruguay, and score
of other points. The exports of cotton goods
to China for the first week of March alone
was s9S, 900, the goods going mainly by trans.
continental lines and taking ships at San
Francisco.-H. W Grady in Atlanta Con-
stitution.
POLITICAL SENSATION.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-I am enabled
to apprise the Tribune of political move.
ment of the first magnitude, which the chief
promoters are not yet ready to announce, but
the facts of which reached your correspondent
from perfectly authentic sources. 1t has
been an open secret that in less than forty
c;rht bour, a flor tho rasulf of the Nove,n her