Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-07
THE MISSISSIPPI MILLS
At Wesson, One of the Largest and Most
Promising Enterprises of the
vs. Country.

JACKSON, MISS, October 5.-The Clarion
says editorislly that the Mississippi Mills al
Wesson are marvel of growth and devel-
opment. A. few years ago the place was a
pine forest The keen eye of that far-seeing,
public-spirited citizen, John NJ. Wesson, in
prospecting for . seat for the erection of a
manufacturing establishment, selected it as a
suitable one for his projected enterprise 1t
was admirably adapted for the purpose.
After contending against the hardships
incident TO the early beginning of such an
undertaking, soon after the war, when capital
was scarce and confidence destroyed, its
foundations were at last securely laid, and
it bounded into the zenith of prosperity,
full-orbed, and with success, we will VEN
ture to say, without an example in the his
tory of such enterprises in the world. We
have no means OF estimating the capital
employed in the enterprise II may be
estimated when we say that the building
and materials are insured for more than
100000. 1t employs nearly 1000 persons,
and it would be reasonable TO estimate that
thrice that number derive their support
directly from it, tosay nothing of those who
are benefited by the extensive purchases of
materials employed in conducting the in
dustry. The machinery and appliances are
all of the latest and most improved. They
use $500 bales of cotton per year. Two sets
of hands are worked-oue by day and one
by night. During the night the mills are
lighted with the electric light. The pluck,
vim and brains OF Col. Oliver and his CO.
managers of the mills are pushing them
ahead of all Southern enterprises, and are
competing with the Northern manufactures
which have been built up by government
subsidies. Its manufactures, among which
we may note doeskins, csssimeres, jeans, both
colored and white, ranging in price from
twenty GEMS up; linseys, tweeds, cottonades,
plaid, checks, cheviots, hickory shirtings,
sheetipg, shifting, osnaburgs, drilling, tick
ing, rope, warp yarns, knitting cotton, col
ored and white, Aewing-thread, towels, grain
and cotton sack. penitentiary duck and
jeans, ETC., are now being sold in half the
States of the Union, from the Atlantic to the
Paci6c-including New York, Pennsylvania,
neariy all the Northwestern States, Missouri
and California. The orders for goods far
exceed the capacity of the mills to furnish
them. By right of supremacy in the quality
Of its products, these mills on several of its
staple products, took the premium at the
Worlds Fair. the Centennial and Atlantis.
The success OF the enterprise demonstrates
what we have repeatedly stated that the su-
perior advantages OF the South for the man |
1fac.ure of cotton and wooden goods OF any
description will ere long enable her to leave |
New England far in the rear. The South is |
The home of the raw material, and the cost |
Of substituting labor being less IN the South /
han in the North, she has decidedly the ad- !
vantage over the latter ssctioH. 1t is con-
rary TO the laws of tra de for the raw mate
.ial TO be transported hundreds and thou
'ands of miles away and manufactured as |
;heaply as where il is produced, other facili-
les being equal.
In addition to the mills, Wesson his a I
trade and number of elegant
md prosperous stores. furnishing every class
Il supplies for the country around; lawyers
md doctors; churches and schools; and last,
,ut not least to the wsyfarer, an excellent
lotel, the Richardson House. It's popuia-
oters, nearly all Caucasian, and il Is need
ess to add that they are solid for the Demo-
ratio Oonservalivsnonineezf Tor Congress in
be Seventh District.
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