Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-10
Increase Of Southern Manufacturing
sassssesss Industries. =.

Increase Of Southern Manufacturing
Industries.
WITHIN the twenty years which have
elapsed since the war. cotton factories
have sprung UP j. every part OF the
South notab M the two Carolinas
and in Geofgia. And the activity and
success Of those mills that have been
built are little less than astonishing.
Examining the present census returns, |
find that the five principal cotton man
ufactrAing States of New England
Maine Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Connecticut and Rhode Island-are
estimated to have in their factories
S,851,S29 spindles; and that the i've
principal cotton-manufacturing States
Of the South, namely, Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama, have only 5,937: that is,
that the New England States employ
about seventeen times as many spindles
as do the five Southern States named.
And yet the former consumed, accord
ing tot these same tables, only about
eight times as much as did the latter.
The New England States are said to,
have used s1,1S2 1868 bales; the five
Southern States mentioned, 154, 1923.
In other words, while the New England
factories consumed about one bale of
cotton ito every eight spindles, the
Southern factories used about one to
every three and half spindles. More
over, am credibly informed that dur
ing the last decade the increase in the
CONSUMPTION Of cotton for 9inanufactur-
ing purposes in New Englandwas only
xryhs1o IN
South it was 12O per centum, and
that the actual amount con-
sumed during the same period by
New England and Southern mills re-
spectively was in about the proportion
of five.t ones And the profits realized
from Southern mills seem to have been
great in proportion to their activity.
The average gross earnings of the Au-
gusta (Ga.) mills are stated to be II per
centurh of its capital; during the last
ten years the average profit of the fac
tories at Langley, s. c., have been 8
per centum upon their capital, and in
that period there has been an accumu-
one-fonrth of the whole capital invested !;
and last year the Van Cluse mills (of
South ECarolina) realized 81 per, centum
profits; those Of Greenvine, S. G., 25 1-2
per centrum
Another striking Indication of the
rapid Industrial progress Of the South is
wealth and in population. Some in
ing than the birth of cities which has
followed upon mineral discoveries in
the West. / learn that ten years ago
hn uif fa off bo IF
ham, Ala, was cotton field. Now it
is brisk manufacturing town, with a
population of six thousand The town
of Wilmington, N. c., has by industrial
enterprise almost doubled its population
following the example set it by number
less other towns of the South, as, notably,
by the city of Atlanta, Georgia, which
since 1860 has grown from 2 village in
to city In 1860 the town Of Atlanta
had a5population Of about9 800; in 1870
her population had increased to 81, 789;
in 1880 she is reckoned in the census
retarns to have considerably more than
thirty thousand This extraordinary
growth is due in part to the fact that
she is the center of an extensive railway
system which connects her directly with
every quarter Of the Union; but it is
principally attributable to her activity in.
trade and manufacture. Its chief man
ufactures are iron, -four and tobacco,
though others are fast assuming place
among the first. - Tc55 ISL T6
Hitherto coarse goods only have been
made BY. most Southern mills, because
of the-want Of skilled labor, in which
alone they are lacking. But with the
influx of capital which is certain to
come soon where 10 can find its most
facile, and therefore most profitable,
employment. will come skilled laborers
as well, and then there need be no limit
to the production Of cotton goods of all
grades. Indeed, some Southern mills
are already producing the finer. fabrics.
The Wilmington On CO. mills make
and supply in large quantity the cloth
on which calicoes are printed; and the
Augusta (Ga.) factory has long en-
ployed skilled hands in the production
of fine goods. Then, too, the South is
found rich in an abundance of ores
which invite to the building of other
manufactures, such as have, for years
fiourished in Atlanta. = Wilmington On.
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