The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-08-12
ONE EFFECT OF COTTON MILLS At
THE SOUTH.

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ticles pointing out the rapid develop
ment of cotton manufacturing at the
South and comparing the profits of
and Northern mills decided
ly to the disadvantage of the latter.
These articles have been extensively
country it is admitted that there is
great revolution now in progress in
cotton manufacturing. The South is
coming to the front and those
who were sceptical as to the success of
the Southern cotton mills have long
since had their doubts dispelled. The
of the Southern states has
just begun, but already we are able to
gain some idea of what the future is to
be. The work of building up the cot
ton manufacturing interests of that
section will undoubtedly be pushed for
ward, and each year show an increase.
The folly of shipping cotton to New
England and to Great Britain, to be
manufactured there, when it can be
done fully as Well, at less cost and
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where grown, has impressed itself up
on capitalists, and the result is dis
position to build mills at the South.
Even since the census of 1S79-'SO was
taken the South has increased its spin
dies to the extent of 361 900, and paid
out during the same time over $12,-
900, 900 for cotton machinery.
In discussing these facts the Chicago
Herald says: t'The agreement among
the cotton manufactures of PhiIadel-
phia to shorten the production of tine
coarser class of fabrics has a signifi.
canoe which does not appear on the
surface. Within the last eighteen
months $12, 100, as is estimated by
an expert, has been invested in the
South in cotton machinery and opera
ting capital, 361 200 new spindles thus
being but in motion. These spindlcs
are proportioned for spinning coarse
numbers of yarn, where the average
production will be eight ounces per
spindle at least, while the fine numbers
spun in the Eastern mills will average
scarcely three ounces to the spindle.
AS labor and fuel are cheaper, as the
raw cotton is received at the factory
door directly from the neigboring field
where it is grown, and, as the possible
condition for manufacturing, the
Southern establishments have manifest
important advantages over their North
ern rivals. Plain coarse cotton goods,
such as osnaburgs, shirtings and sheet
ings can be produced and sold at less
than will yield a satisfactory profit in
the East. The tendency, therefore,
constantly growing in intensity and
momentum, is to transfer to the South
so much of the cotton industry as re-
Iates to the production OF the coarse
fabrics, and to confine the Northern
enterprises to the finer and finest
goods. On account Of the very rapid
spread OF cotton mills among the cot
ton fields, the factories in the North
are beginning visibly to feel the effects
of the Southern competition. Indeed,
the time cannot be far distant when
all our coarse cottons will be supplied
from the cotton belt and the child is
born who will see the great mass of
cotton manufacturing, in all its divers
it'd branches, carried on where the
tleecy staple is cultivated.
The whiskey intended for a beverage
is mostly made in Kentucky, while that
which goes into manufactures comes
in the main from Illinois. Mr.. Gersh
Martin, distiller who has excited con-
siderable surprise by uttering temper
ance sentiments, belongs to the latter
State. He is glad that less whiskey
is drunk now than there was thirty
years ago, and he advises people to
give beer the preference. "The far
mers, who used to be the largest con-
sumers," he says, care now the small
est. They used to buy whiskey by the
barrel cheaper than city people can
now get cider, but to day they get it
by the jugful or not at all. Thirty
years ago nine farmers in ten would
have voted against prohibition, but now
nine in ten would vote for it," His ad-
vice to his fellow distillers is as follows:
sThe whiSkey trade ought not to fight