The Russellville Democrat., 1882-11-23

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 and put on to the hnishers where
 they are doubled three times, taken
 of and are ready for the cards. By
 this improved system the dirties,
 cotton is made into nice clean lap. . They have the improved clipper
 cards. which are manufactured by
 the Bridesburg manufacturing com
 pany at Philadelphia These cards are the same make as those used by
 Hooper q Son. and Carl, of Balti-
 more, two of the largest coarse mill operators in the United State. The eaEds average I25 10 I50 pounds per day Of ten hours. on from number sixes to tens. The company has twenty four Of the thirty six inch clipper cards with selfcylinder strip pers, all complete.
 They have four improved railway heads with frOns and back stop mo- tion also three BFidesburg improv ed drawing frames, front and back stop motion, with three roll drawing, three into one. The drawing frames have four deliveries each. From here the goods passes on to the Low- ell machine shop improved speed CTS, Of which the compahy has four, three coarse and one fine. From the speeders the goods passes on the BridesDurg make of spinning frames. The company has fifteen of these. eight are two inch ring, the other seven being two and one quarter inch. From here the goods are talk , en across on the George Draper & Sons improved spoOlers. there being two spoaiegs of 100 spindles each. Then 1t is taken to Drapers impTov cd twisters, there being six twisters with fonr and one-half inch rings, capable of being adjusted so as to make from two ply wrapping tsine to eight ply carpet warp.
 From here the twine is taken to Silver & Gays improved hailers. three in number of sixteen spindles each; the bailers caa De adjusted so as to make from twelve ounce ball up to one six inches in diameter on the same machine. From the ball CT the twine goes into , and 10 pound muslin sacks; 20 of the , pound and 10 of 10 pound sacks be ing placed under a handsome press where it IS made into a bale 22 inches square, ready for shipment
 The company has two coarse rope machines upon which they can make from 5-16 b inch rope, and two smaller machines that manufacture rope from 516 of an inch dewn 10 fishing lines and chalk cords, the flyers running 2200 turns permin ute. The rope machines all have the improved coilers, which coil the rope as fast as it is made, thus doing away with the expense of hand coil ing.
 The cotton in the seed goes into one end of the mill, working it's way through to the other end, never leaving the second floor until It is placed in the wagon for shipment.
 The capital stock of the company is S75, ,000, o! which $60, ,000 is taken The affairs of the company are man aged by a board Of five directors, composed of the follwing persons, viz: J. L. Shiu1, Geo. L. Kimball, J. NJ. Hsney, J. R. H. Scott and J. B. Eyants. J. L. Shinn is president of tue board, Jas. E. Batteuield, sec retary, and J. NJ. Haney, superin- tendent.
 The standing of such men is known by the mere mention of their names, and any enterprise entrusted to their shrewdness and ability is certain of success. The company sprung into existence by the public spiritedness Of her officers who meant business from tue moment of the of the gigantic undertak- ing. The enterprise would do cred it to any of the New England states, and is a model in beauty, con and completeness for the millions of dollars of capital yet to be invested in the manufacture of cotton goods.
 The Melrose Cotton Mill is the first in the series to start the hum Of of spindles which ere many years will be heard through out the fertile lands of the beautiful Arkansas valley.
 To such an institution we most heartily wish success, and to the 1 honest, wholesOuled. public-spirit ed officers and stockholders of l .he Melrose Mills, we say God 1 speed.