The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
Progress Made in the Southern States
In Tie Manufacture Of Cotton Goods.


In Tie Manufacture OF Cotton Goods.
The machinery of the excelsior cot
ton factory, at Cuero, Texas Is nearly
all in place.
The excelsior mills at Columbus.
Georgia, are now running seventy-twO
looms and producing forty styles of
goods.
The Columbus Manufacturing COM
pany have added twenty looms to
their mills and now work Isl hands
The Muscogee mills at Columbus.
Georgia, have increased during the
past few months from eighty TO l22
looms.
The citizens of Gaffney City, South
Carolina, have subscribed $4,000 to-
ward building a cotton factory at
that place.
The AnmstOn, Alabama, cotton-mill
employs $50 hands. The company
proposes to build new mill Of the
same capacity.
The steam cotton-mills at Column
bus, Georgia, send their yarns to Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, where there
is regular demand for them.
A company of Atlanta capitalists
have been in Conyers for the purpose
of purchasing the paper-mill property
and converting it into cottOn-mill
Columbus las ten cotton and WOOL
EN- mills, and the only bagging factory
in Georgia. They run 1880 looms and
employ 2l67 operatives on textiles
alone.
Capitalists have subscribed money
to establish cotton factory at Little
Rock, Arkansas, and the contractor
has advertised for 100000 bricks for
the erection of the building.
The Eagle and Phoenix mills at Col
umbus, Georgia, have recently put in a
very powerful steam fre-pump of the
Deane patent. These mills are now
getting up some beautiful woolens for
the fall trade.
The cotton factOrF to be built at FL
berton, Georgia, is to cost $4,000, to
be run by steam. and the buildings
are TO be constructed as TO allow an en-
largement. A S 600 cotton factory
is in contemplation in the lower part
of Ebert county, and the stock is all
taken.
During last week the Nashville cotton
factory was organized, with a capital
of 100000, a site purchased on which
to erect factory, and the contract
given out for the building and ma
chinery. The factory is to have 1000
spindles, and is TO be in full oper-
alton by next October.
Union Springs Herald: "Specula-
ton as to the probability of cotton
factory being established at this place
may now as well cease. The business
men of Union Springs have taken
hold of the enterprise with a determi-
nation which renders its success a GER
tainty. As an earnest of the fact that
they mean business they have deter
mined to fix the capital stock of the
proposed company at $4,000, where
as $4,000 was the amount first sug-
gested rs the best it was thought, that
could be done.
The Graniteville and Vaucluse fac
tories, near Augusta, Georgia, have
just had their annual meeting. They
are under one management, and show
net earnings of fifteen per cent. A
dividend of eight per cent. was de-
clared, carrying S43, 1913. IS to the profit
and loss account The company now
have a surplus fund Of $I6S,373,21.
They constitute one of the most com
pact and one of the strongest manu-
featuring enterprises in the land
Vaucluse has 10000 spindles and 5000
looms, while Graniteville has 24,054
spindles and $50 looms. During the
past year 1913 bales of cotton were
consumed.