The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-06-07
Cotton Manufac turing vs.. ''Sliip-
ping"


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or progress to town or city that
relies for it's main support upon the
handling and shipment of staples,
whether the staples be cottons, s,sugar,
corn, wheat, tobacco, wool, hemp or
other products of agriculture. The
town that increases it's receipts from
ten thousand bales of cotton, or ten
thousand bags of wool up to twenty
thousand, with the intent to ship the
accumulation to the sea ports or the
mills, simply creates demand for a
few additional clerks and draymen,
and perhaps scoreof extra stevadors
and the betterment to the town is
comparatively insignificant but if a
town receiving 10000 bales of cotton
determines to manufacture half of it
into cloth and yarns, it will thereby
give employment to some three hun>
dred operatives, most of whom will
be drawn to the town from the coun>
try, thus adding largely to its popu-
lation and creating not only demand
for many additional houses but maxi
ing a splendid local market for vast
quantities of country produce, and
necessitating the establishment of
machine shops, foundries and other
collateral establishments that will
employ, in the aggregate, nearly as
many hands as the cotton factory.
Trade will be vastly stimulated; for
these hundreds of new corners who
handle their wages every Saturday
night, must be provided with food,
and clothing, and furniture, and fuel,
and all the necessaries and luxuries
their incomes will admit of. The five
thousand bales of cotton that are re-
tanned for manufacturing purposes,
will have cost S250,000; and of this
amount the producers will have dis
bursed probably fifty per cent among
the merchants and other middle men
OF the town, But when it leaves the
factory it will go forth representing
fully three quarters of n million dol.
lars worth of goods, and of this vast
sum the town will have profted mo-
only by the margins on the farmers
purchases, but by the per centage OF
the expended wages of the operatives
which represent large proportion
of the difference between the value 0
the raw material and manufactured
aricle-and the net profits or divi
dends on the factory.
The other five thousand bales will
90 forward in unbroken bulks to SCI
port or to foreign mills, leaving will
our people only the profits on th,
, merchandise sold to producers, ant
r the petty earnings Of the warehouse
men and teamsters and then again
, if this cotton rs is often the case, j
bought by local merchants for th,
, purpose of creating trade, at stif
prices, the whole profits of the sea-
sons sale of merchandise may b,
more than swallowed up by thei
losses in cotton buying, as has fire.
r quently been the case, and the tow
after busy, bustling, wearying sea
son, involving vast labor, anxiety anC
outlay, may come out of the grea
commercial campaign heavy los Ell
and with crippled resources ant
dampened energy.
, The town of Wesson has popu
lation of between two and thre,
thousand people, all of whom ar,
more or less connected with, ant
dependent upon it's great factory fol
a livelihood. With such a factory il
Aberdeen where so many natural ad
vantages and resources temptInvest
ment, and where three railroads ant
navigable river will ere long COM
pete for the carrying trade, a popu'
lation of ten thousand active, enter
prising people would soon find con.
genial homes and employment.
Depend upon it, the town that re-
lies upon handling staples in bulk fol
main tainance does not stand a ghos,
of chance in the struggle for SUI
premacy with town that manufac>
lures them, and though we shall ir
all likelihood handle forty or fifty
thousand bales of cotton in unbroker
bulks during the season commencing
September LIST 1883, we will not ado
a fourth as many persons to the
population of the city, or near as
many dollars to her wealth,as though
we only received five thousand bale,
of cotton and manufactured then
into fabrics here at home.
Shipping staples in bulk is relit
of barbarism; converting staples into
commercial fabrics is the "oper
sesame to progress, prosperity an
supremacy.
The building societies, which have
contributed so greatly towards max
ing Philadelphia "tbe city of homes,
are, we learn from the Times, nov
exempt from taxation on capita