Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-04
KING COTTON.

hINU OOl1ONs
Rapid Growth OF Manufacturing
Interests I'm .s4e South--ExsSasfve
Mills Being Erected-NegrO LaAor
Found TO be a Failure In the Fac
tories.
Ticksburg (Atss) Correspondenoe New York
Herald,
Perhaps no industry ever inaugurated in the
Southern States was more rapidly developed
than the manufacture of cotton yarns and
coarse goods has been in the past ten years,
and the boom" is still rolling on From Caro-
lima to Texas the demand is far greater than
the supply for skilled labor. improved ma
chinery and more capital The statistical re-
ports Of last year how the average annual
dividend Of the principal mills South to be 221 5
per cent. The result is that Eastern capital is
seeking this class or investment Southern
mills on small scale having paid well their
proprietors desire to double their capacity.
Accordingly in a great number of places new
mills are being started. at Huntsville Ala
bama, for instance, year since, there was no
sign of a mill. Now both q cotton factory and
a cotton seed oil mill are being built there. The
superintendent Of the cotton mill comes from
Rhode Island and invess his capital. Within
the past six months an Ohio man has
started the spindles humming at Tuscum-
bia, Alabama. spinning yarns direct from
the seed cotton, and says he will make % per
cent on his investment the first year. A 5000
,
the capital of the State The Tuscaloosa ala
mills have more orders than they can fill. and
want to double their facilities. The Selma
(Ala.) mills are success. and others will short
ly be erected there. Huntsville Is the hand
soonest, the most healthy and one of the
wealthiest cities in the State. and, if expe-
rienced New England manufacturers would go
there. they could enlist S500,0O0 in factories.
Arkansas has several successful factories,
which have been built in the last few years.
The largest and most successful are at Little
Rock Pine klnff Arkansas haa 29f0 nm
cotton mandatory movement on foot with
more than one-half the capital paid in. Fort
Smith is building 100000 cotton-seed oil
mill. At Royston, in Pike county, is the oldest
mill in the State. 1t pays handsomely, and
the owners are anxious TO enlarge it. Capt.
talists have just advertised at Little Rock for
bids to erect another mill there to contain 900,
coo bricks.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS IN GEORGIA.
Georgia the Empire State of the South is
now and probably will continue To be the lead
er in manufactures among the Southern Statea.
At Columbus, upon the finest water power in
the land, are now the largest cotton m lis ia the
South. Among the enterprises there ia corpo-
ration which hes grown from one little mill of
500 900 capital. in the past halfdozen years. to
a company OF five mills to-day with a paid up
capital OF 81, 25n,C10, paying twenty per cent.
Other mills have been built up around them
and are enjoying a succe sful ,reer. Next to
Columbus comes Augusta, with her splendid
canal water power. In 1879 she declared a diyi-
vested in cotton factories. What was the re-
suit? Since that time company has been or
gained there with a capital Of $1.CC0,C)0 to
manufacture cotton gooGs, with privilege to
increase its capital to 100000. Anoth-
er manufacturing company Of the same
city - have increased their capital
from So CD to $40 DC J. The mills at Macon
are being enlarged. Another splendid factory
is to BE- built at Atlanta, where there is one of
the finest in the South now. Dalton, Ca, has
within the past year organized a movement,
and NH I01 fhFr.Va fuF ~ 10 N~sfA ~
writer short time since that he would start the
Rome cotton factory with a subscription of
10000. The Chat ahoOchee mills at West
Point. Ga. recently destroyed by fire. are rising
PhOeniX like from the esheS, and will soon be
in operation again. Columbus has the only
bagging factory in the State, which makes ten
mi Is in all in that city. The Enterprise mills
OF Georgia have re- entity doubled their capaci-
ty. There is the finest water power in the
South IN this State and room for more
mills upon it, But while Georgia enjoys
this advantage Alabama can boast of the finest
coal mines in the South, which supply all her
factories Of every kind with good coal at from
81 to 50 so per ton.
DIVIDENDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Next to Georgia comes South Carolina, and
while the former is proud of the largest mills
in the South the latter can boast OF having the
smallest cotton factory, not only in the South,
but IN the United States. This mandatory,
located at Westminster, s. c., is not only the
smallest factory 10 the country. but, according
tai employed is "a OOO; cord, 200 spindles
hands. This spins cotton direct from the seed
by new process, and reports a profit of 30
per cent. Her largest and best mills built
within the past few years are paying p and y
Der cent. The average dividend OF all the mills
10 South Carolina is 2215 per cent.
The most marked result Of this is that within
the past half year, since that report was pub
lished, half million dollar cotton factory has
been started at Charleston, $780, 900 OF the
stock being already subscribed, much of it
from of ha He lraffN ~.
is at OTangeburg, S. O., and reports a profit OF
over 20 per cent. A large manufacturing com
pany at Columbia, s. c.. desire to double their
stock-from S200,U00 to 100000 A well known
firm Of Providence, r. l., are expeuding seve-
raj million dollars in developing the grand
water power Of Columbia and expect to erect
several large mills on il. An extensive manu-
featuring company has Just been organized at
Sumter, S. c , and the company has ordered
improved machinery from Lowell, Mass Gaff-
ney City, 5. C., is new town, yet they have
subscribed $40 co for factory there.
North Carolina is making rapid strides ia the
line Of factories. The manufacturing company
IN operation at Graham, n. c., are building a
new mill. to be called the Glencoe. A few years
ago the falling waters of the Little North river,
flowing through CASTOR county, n. c.. rolled
on uninterruptedly through that be utiful val
ley, their roar making the only mu.-c that fell
upon the ear Of the honest farmer Now
within radius of seven es and in the tri-
angle of three railroads those same waters are
utilized to make thousands of 81 indies hum,
ana Luc SIX cotton factories are all PROSPEROUS.
making from ID to 20 per cent upon their in
VeStment. Ten thousand spindies began to
sing in beautiful new mill at Charlotte n c.
early the past spring. All IT, machinery en-
braces the very latest improved, and it is real
ly thing OF beauty. A much larger mill is
being built near the same city.
NEGRO FACTORY LABOR A FAILURE.
Louisiana is increasing her factories I'm
like the other Southern States. she builds
only large mills The mills in New Orleans
have cuQpaguful oh fbof
others are being built in the Crescent City
Lately $4,000 has been subscribed and the
work begun on new mill in the city, to con
tain lO,C00 spindes and 800 looms Louisiana
tried the experiment. Of negro labor in cotton
mills. The State built mill at Baton Rouge
to employ convict labor. and made a signal
failure. so far as the colored labor was con-
cerned, but she found ready hands to take the
mill and operate il with white labor. No col
ored labor Is employed Ia cotton mills that l
know of at all.
ing her manufacturing interests. The history
Of her WessOn Cotton Mills has been profitable
To her. Starting with one mill and 100000
capital only a few wears since, her goods took
a premium at the centennial Exhibition An
other mill was built aud the stock doubled
Fortune still smiled upon her and prosperity
crowned the work. About so per cent. was
made, end then another mill was built and the
stock increased to about s., coo 600 The Presi-
dent of the company last alluded 10 saws il is
the best paying investment of his life. In May,
Iotot lnc SOuuu OI the steam whistle and the
clash Of the shuttle announced to the people of
Natchez that cotton factory was 10 operation
there. and the people gathered around
to see it start. One year proved it
to be paving enterprise, and at
once the foundation stone of the second
mill for Natchez was laid, and it is now about
completed. So successful are some of the prin-
cipal mills that they are lighted with electrici-
ty and run night set of hands. This speaks
well for Southern enterprise. Some OF the
larger mills use steam power. Many of The
mills have more orders than they can fill. The
new mill beilding at COrinth has been bought
by new company, and viii soon commence
business.
PROGRESS IN MISSISSIPPI.
At Vicksburg the largest city in the State
large cotton factory movement is on foot
Nearly 100000 has been subscribed in the CITY
and 1t Is expected to raise much more
East and have the Eastern stockholders take
the management, build, equip and operate it.
columbus, Miss, has new cotton seed oil
mill, and is raising stock for cotton factory.
II she would do so and convert the 30 COD bales
Of cotton she handles by spinning it into yarns
instead of getting about million and a half
dollars for ner crop, she would realize S27C1-
600 for 1t as thread. A New Orleans company
is starting large mil at Canton, Miss At
Water Valley the machinery has arrived for a
small mill to be enlarged if successful Mis-
sissippi tsk es the palm for fine cotton The
Ntcksburg mill, for instance, will use a staple
one and three eighths inches long, buying di-
rect from the planters wagon, will save all in
cidental expenses and will secure a wears sun
ply of cotton in getting the crop of & few
planters around the city. Many OF these mills
are specially exempt from all taxes
Tennessee, though not as large a cotton
raising State as the three just isouth of her,
is yet increasing her cotton manufactures.
One of the largest mills in the South
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