Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-10
OUR COTTON MILLS.
The decrease in Manufactured Goods in
Tennessee i'm ISSs Double
that Of 1881.
Interesting Statistics Furnished By Com
missioner Misunderstanding
in the Legislature.

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, March 9-The following
petitions were presented:
A petition from the citizens of Henry
county opposing the establishment OF
Criminal Court in Henry county.
A petition from the ciliz.ns of Haywood
county against a change of the county line.
The Senate bill to pay the Torbett issue
passed fret reading. The bill makes it the
duty OF the comptroller to receive it in pay.
nent of dues to the State. The bill was Or
dered printed.
The resolution to investigate the condition
OF the Davidson county Jail was adopted.
The Senate resolution to fix the State tax
at not more than forty cents on each 300
worth of taxable property in the State was
tabled.
The House Consumed most of the day in
consideration of bills on fret aud ,econd
reading
Tie Increase in sense.see Coffas. Man.
ufaciured Goods in 1852 Doubie That
fIsSI.
The folleHiog report was made BY Com
missioner Hawkins Thursday, on the ststis-
tics Of the manufacture of cotton in Tennes-
see during the years lSSl-82:
BUREAU OF AGRLcULTuRE, sTATIsTIcs
AND MINES, NASHVILLE, March 7, 1888. !
To His Excellency, W. B. Bate, Governor of Ten
nesSee:
Among the duties prescribed by law for this bu-
reau, it is made the duty of the commissioner to
collect statistics in reference TO the manufacture
of cotton in Tennessee.
The assignment of duty without comforting the
power necessary for It's performance necessarily
For some reason many manufacturers in Ten
upon which statistics of their operations NAV be
based. AS the commissioner possesses no author
ity 10 require them to furnish ddtd, the require
nients of the law may be likened TO the exRctions
of the ancient tssk-mas who demanded The
tale of bricks" hout furnishing The straw
Out OF list of thirtyone cotton factories in Ten
nessee only fifteen have furnished this Office with
any oatg for stats les, the remainder having
failed, though repeatedly requested to dc so. The
have responded 10 requests, which is respectfully
submitted. A. W. HAWKINS, Commissioner.
The following are the totals of the tables men
toned:
Capital invested. ..-............ s6e7 600
Number Of spndles used 2s556
Number of looms used.,.................-... 1867
Value OF machinery. 10000
STATISTICS FOR 1882.
Adult males employed, l3s; average wages per
week, 50 81; males under fifteen years of age en-
females 275; average wages, 81 9S; females under
fifteen years, So average wages, 81 90; cotton
sumed, 2,26S ,094 pounds: cotton yarns produced,
1oS7, 242 pounds and 24.l20 dozen; muslins pro-
duced, 779, $50 yards; checks and cortonades. 903
057 yards; rope, Irvine, et', 772,195 yards; other
goods, A, 900 pounds, principally batting
STATISTICS FOR 1881.
Adult males employed sl6; average wages per
week. So 80; males under fifteen years OF age IA;
average wages per week, 81 81; adult females. 462
average wages per week, IS 80; females under if
teen years OF age 1Si; average wages per week,
81 81; cotton consumed. BIS 7i2 pounds cotton
yarns, $50, $50 pounds and % 747 dozen; musins
prodused, 3091 OBS yards; checks and cottonades,
4os2l2 yards; rope Irvine. ETC., 1.e7s.s.3 pounds;
other goods, principally batting 52,5I7 pounds.
The above statistics were furnished by the pro-
prielors OF the following factories: shoal Mills,
Lawrenceburg; Vale Mills Vale Mills; Rockford
Manufacturing Company. Rockford; Pioneer Mills,
Memphis; Spring Creek Mills, Henry Station Gal
latin Mills, Gallstin National Manufacturing
Company, Nashville; Chattanooga Factory, Chat
tanooga; Oregon Mills, Oregon; Eagle Mills,
Lawreneeburg; Paris Manufacturing Company,
Paris; Pinewood Factory. Pinewood: Hamilton
Mills, Mckenzie; Holston- Mills, Onion Depot;
Chickasaw Mills, Paris.
The following comparisons are taken from the
oner-a r>r,orts---