The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-27
Manufacturing in the south.

NJ manufacturing in the South.
1t seems impossible for southern peo-
pie to realize the importance OF manu-
featuring industries in their midst
They do not appreciate their value to
communities where located, nor under
stand the profits to those who put their
money into them. Every community
in the south ought to build and encour-
age and foster enterprises OF this kind
especially factories for the manufacture
of her great staple-thereby not only
saving transportation to and from the
great manufacturing centers in the east,
| but giving. employment to vast mum bers
OF her citizens, largely increasing pOpu-
lation and distributing the profits of
manufacturing and cost of living to OPP
eratives among the farmers, merchants
and mechanics at home.
Mr.. Hammett, President of the Pied
mont cotton factory of Georgia, makes
this estimate of the profits OF manulac-
turing bale of cotton into sheetings.
Cost of bale, $45; cost of manufacturing
transportation and commissions, S23.62;
total cost, SOS 81. Produce OF the bale
made into sheetings, $S6.l6; net profits
Sl7.54. l. Guiding the amount paid in
wages, the anufacture OF bale of cot
ton into coarse goods leaves $31.9l be-
mind in the place which manufactured
it, almost as much as the total value of
the cotton.
Since the above estimate was made |
the sharp advance in cotton goods has |
largely increased the value of bale of |
cotton made into sheeting, and the |
amount left behind in the community |
where manu- actured, including wages |
paid To operatives, " no spend il for pro-
visions, clothing, furniture and living
expenses, is not less than $40 per bale.
TO illustrate the value OF such enter
prises to southern communities we will
take our own cotton factory in Pulaski
as an example. During the year it
manufactures not less that 600 bales of
cotton produced in Giles county, the
profits upon the manufacture of which
if shipped to the east would go to en-
rich some other community; but taking
the above as a basis of calculation we
find that not less than $40 per bale are
left to be distributed in Pulaski-that is
S4, 900 per annum, or $4,000 every
month more than if there was no fac
tory here. Is this not an item to be
pOndered well, not only by capitalists
but by the farmers, merchants and me-
chanics as well? Should they not, by
all legitimate means within their pow
er, try to encourage and build up such
an enterprise as this one? Then let Pu-
ask and Giles county merchants sell
.hese goods as largely as possible and
ct the people consume them in prefer
,nce to foreign goods, and by so doing :
build up our own community and con- .
ribute to our own wealth ard prosper
ty.
Not only this, but other factories
0uld be built here with the surplus cap
tai in our midst, aided by northern cap
Lalists who are eagerly seeking invest :,
leuts in cotton factories south where I
yer the people will take hail the stock il
nd thereby show thei good faith in the |,
natter. And every factory so built o
'ould add other hundreds to our popu- Y
ition and other thousands to our o
-ealth. n
At the factory now in operation there V
re 10 to 70 operatives, and including n
leir families, not less than zoe pOpula- c.
on added to Pulaski, 200 mouths to be v
ID, 200 bodies to be clothed and 80 to 9
children to be educated, and the mon u
? they speud for living finds its way u
trough the hands of farmers, merchants v
ID mechanics into the hands of the Z,
sople generally and every mas, woman :.
I'd child is the beneficiary, either di- -
city or indirectly, OF this monthly dis -
ibution of $4,000 in Giles county. \
Let US sustain such enterprises and f.
aid more of them in the south. hi