The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-10

exchanges may give some lued o
the extent of the cotton industry il
the South:
A northern company with fifteer
millions stock has organized tc
build an immense cotton mill a
Athens, Ga.
The immense buildings of the At
lanta Cotton Exposition have been
bought by a company that will fill
them with looms and spindles.
The Sibley Mills, with the aid OF
81 900, 900, turned their first spin
dies last month.
MIR BENJAMIN McAdams is build
ing an immense mill near Charlotte,
n. c.
The Central Falls Manufacture
ing Company, of ASHORE, n. G.,
will begin operations next month
with 5000 spindles.
Mr.. Benjamin Kicks, of Missis-
sippi, will soon erect a two-thous-
and spindle mill with ginnery and
cotton seed oil mill attached.
A mill to cost 100000 is to be
erected at Weldon, n. c., by Mr..
Robert Peoples, of Northampton
county.
The Adams manufacturing Com
pany of Montgomery, Ala, has just
started yarn-mill with 5000 spin
dies.
The John P King mill, of Angus
ia, will cost 81 100000.
Montgomery, Ala, has new
cotton mill, with a capacity of 1900
bales.
Troy, N. c., is going to have a
cotton factory.
The Trion Cotton factory, situa-
ted 25 miles from Rome, Ga, ha s
for six years been paying semi-annu-
al dividends of 7 per cent. None of
the stock is on the market. Its pro-
ducts are hauled by wagons to
Rome for shipment.
The new cotton mills at Orange
burg, S. c., is approaching com
pletion, and it will be equal to the
best kind in the South.
The Eclipse cotton mill, Louis
vile, KY, now employs 25o opera
tives. The mills soon to be erected
will give employment 10 500 opera
tives.
There are six large mills in and
around Petersburg, Va, having u.s.
900 spindles, consuming last year
about 1900 bales of cotton and
manufacturing over 100000
yards of cloth.
The factory of the Worth Manu-
fscturing Company, Graham, n. c. ,
is now complete. 1t is one of the
largest in the country. The ma
ch merry is arrivingl iaily. Opera
tions will begin about March 1 .
Fifteen tenant houses are about
completed.
The work on the new cotton
factory Of the Charleston, S. c.,
Manufacturing Company is push
ing ahead with rapidly. The
foundation for the engines has been
completed. The walls of the fac
tory building have reached the top
of the second story.
The Langly mi Is, of Augusta,
pay ~! per cent.dividends in add
ton to which it has a surples from
earnings OF $500, 900.
The Clifton Manufacturing Com
pany, Clifton, S, c., in their semi
annual report for tho six months en-
ding December 81, 1851, show a
net profit of 81 ,029,II, being 1899
100 per cent. on their capital Of
100000. They manufacture yarns,
drills, sheetings and shifting, and
have the reputation of making
first-class grade of goods. Their
yarns, as well as that of other mills,
which are sold in Northern markets,
are said to be a superior quality,
and are eagerly sought for at high
est market rates.
A Northern company has recent
paid 10000 for property near
Athens, upon which it will erect
factories costing $4,000
A cotton seed oil mill is flourish
ing in Selma and Montgomery,
Ala, one is being built in Rome
Ga, and others are in progress of
erection.
Thus, in part, the work progress
ses, and everywhere our people,
approaching the fact that it is best
to bring the mills to the cotton;
that our climate is well adapted to
the manufacture of the feecy staple.
and that for divers reasons it is bet
ter to manufacture the cotton
where it is produced are pushing
forward and bending every energy
to start the spindle aud the loom.
Nor is this confined to cotton alone,
for everywhere new mines are be-
ing opened, new furnaces erected
and fires kindled in them for the
first time The traveller, in passing
through Georgia and Alabama,
would be astonished at the large
number of iron furnaces he beholds
on every side, with their happy
wellpaid workmen, who produce
striking contrast to the half.
starved and lily paid pauper laborer
of Belgium and other European
countries. And this prosperity is
not alone confined TO the laborer,
the employer is making money, and
even the farmers are greatly bepe-
flied by the ready market those
furnaces establish for every pro-
duct of the farm. Thus they spread |
over the country face of thrift,
gladness, and prosperity heretofore
unseen.
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