The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
MANUFACTURING.
The Peculiar Advantages Pulaski
Offers to Capitalists as
Manufacturing Center.

: Hob pIOpeIlJ appreciated. olEuaCS
/ on the southern rim of the grea
Tennessee basin, so famous for il
unexampled fertility, healthfu
ness and variety of its product
Giles is one of the most remarks
bic counties in the world. Aboy
the malaria Of the south and belo'
the icy blasts of the north, it
equable climate is peculiarly braC
ing and healthful. And such is tia
peculiar fertility of it's soil tina
without the use of artificial fertil
izers all the cereals, fruits and veg
etables OF semi tropic CLINE groV
to perfection and abundance, max
ing living cheap, luxurious anC
healthful. Here too the great blu
grass region and the great cot OF
belt meet and overlap, presenting
spectacle Witnessed perhaps NJ
where else beneath the sun-th,
abundant production of both cot
ton and blue grass upon the same
soil. a farm in Giles county may
present the strange spectacle of pro
ducing at once upon its various
fields, without fertilizers, in abun
dance and to great perfection-cot-
ton. all the cereals, all the vegeta
bl. s, all the fruits of the climate,
all of the desirable grasses, includ-
ing clover. blue grass, timothy,
herdsgrass, &c, &c, and these
abundant grasses produce cattle,
sheep, mules, hogs, etc. Then, il
this sketch is not over-wrought,
and we assure the reader it is not,
where can there be found a more
desirable country to live and where
one better adapted to manufacture
ing, especially of cotton and wool?
Healthfulness, good schools, good
society, good living cheap living,
comparatively cheap fuel, with the
raw material, both cotton and wool,
grown in great abundance. Cotton
can be bought for manufacturing
purposes here at J to s cent less
even than in Nashville, which is on
ly so miles north by rail, while
wool is from 2 to cents cheaper.
Wood and coal for manufacturing
purposes are comparatively cheap.
Altogether the advantages estima
ted in dollars and cents in favor of
Pulaski as a manufacturing point
are from two to three cents upon
every pound Of cotton, and the
same rates with reference to wool.
Yet these advantages seem not to
be known or appreciated-there be-
ing only one factory for fabrics in
the town. This the writer had the
pleasure of visiting recently, and
obtained the following facts which
may interest some of our readers:
1t was built some 80 years ago, and
is now owned by Messrs. Gordon d
McCord, who, since they have
owned it, some 3 years, have pushed
it energetically and have made
many improvements and additions.
The large three-story brick mill
with its surrounding tenements, of
flee, ware houses and small park,
vegetable gardens, meadow, &c,
present the appearance almost of a
village itself, while within the fac
tory a lively scene meets the eye.
In the spinning and carding room
everything seems to be conducted
with system and order, while the
bright eyes of the children and the
rosy cheeks of the girls attest their
cheerfulness. The weave room pre-
sents to the mind the idea of clock
work--with its regular, never-flil
ing and almost never-ending clank
clank Throughout the entire
building, order, system and clean
illness seemed to prevail, while over
all seemed to pervade an air of
thrift and energy. In a converse
tion with one of the office the writ
er learned that at present there
were 2l50 cotton spindles, 90 cards,
4 railway heads, drawing frames,
.speeders, warp dressers, so
looms, 2 Wrappers, 2 spoolers,4 reels,
= twisters, &c, while the wool de-
partment contained one-set wool
en- mill, including 3 cards, one $50
spindle jack, and custom roll card,
the latter of which does large bus
mess. This mill also has a well
equipped machine shop in which
they not only keep up their own re-
pairs but do great deal of repair
ing for others. We learned also
that excellent steam coal is deliver
ed at the depot at So per ton and
wood delivered at the furnace at
$3.50 per cord, and one remarkable
feature of this is that these are en-
tirely paid for in goods manufac-
tured at the mill. With advanta-
ges then that these gentlemen pos
scss, a well equipped mill, content
ed labor, pleasant surroundings,
cheap fuel, cheap cotton, cheap
wool, and cheap, good living, it
would hardly astonish any one if
they made considerable money.
But the greatest surprise to me is
that more men of enterprise and
capital have not taken advantage
of these surroundings and built up
half dozen or more such factories
here. 1t presents the most inviting
field for investment to be found
anywhere. The goods manufactured
here are sheetings, drills, cotton
yarns, carpet warps, knitting cot
ton, jeans, white linseys, wool
yarns, ETC., and they have ademand
which may be called almost local
for the greater part of the products.
That is, they sell most of their
goods direct to merchants, without
the cost of commissions, which is
another advantage worthy of men
ton. We hope ere long to see cap
italists both at home and abroad
ayailing themselves of these won
derful advantages and building fac
tories where they can be made to
pay better than in any country be:
meath the sun,
Thewinter floods have swept away
many a seethihg mass of filth and gar
bage, but the eddying tide has added
disease germs to the soil; to shield your
system from fever injection, use Ed
ward Wilder's Stomach Bitters.