The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-07

CultuF1l, MISUNDERSTANDING auo otuoi anooo0
tries of Anderson County was prepared
by Hon. B. F. Crayton for publication
in the Neaos and Courier's great review Of
South Carolina, which has just been
published, and will doubtless be of inter.
est to our people:
MANUFACTURES.
Number and kinds OF manufacturing
establishments: Cotton mills, Q; -four
and grist mills, 85; lumber mills, SO
other manufactures, 18. Total, 1913.
2 Capital employed, $761, 300. Value of
annual product, s., ,029, 600.
Number of persons employed: Whites,
TAT; colered, 17S. Total, 925.
NoTE.-Part of the above statement
is based upon approximsts estimates, as
no statement could be obtained from the
Anderson cotton mills. No statement is
given for the annual product Of the lum:
Der mills, and no statement for "other
manufactures" further than the
number of establishments and the
character Of products. The esti-
mates given have close relation to the re-
ports of like industries furnished from
other counties.
2. Number Of cotton mills, 2. Names
and locations:
Pelzer Mill and Pendleton Factory.
Location: Pelzer Mill, on Saluda
River, near Williamson; Pendleton
Factory, on Twenty.three Mile Creek,
near the Town of Pendleton.
Capital employed, $527, 900. Annual
product: PeIzer Mill, yards cloth,
S,s4O,Ooo; Pendleton Factory, pounds
warn, 242,000. Cotton annually con-
sumed: Pelzer Mill, 2,S76,00O pounds !;
Pendleton Factory, 285,000 pounds
total, 2,661, 900 pounds, or 1922 bales OF
500 pounds weight.
Percentage Of net profit, not stated.
Number Of spindles: Pelzer Mill, H. !
600; Pendleton Factory, 1900; total,
i15,6OO.. Number of looms: Pelzer Mill /,
49,. Water or steam, with amount OF
horse power: Water, 663 horse power.
Increase or decrease, not stated. NUN
ber Of hands employed, SS5. - =,
No cotton mills in course of construc-
ton, organization, &C., in the county.
8. Number of -four and grist mills, IS.
Names and locations, not given. Number
of hands employed: Whites, 80; col
ored, 6; total, 96. Capital employed,
S6S,000. Value of annual product, 3S2,.
600 bushels, or $4,000. Glass of pro-
duct, -four and cornmeal of best quality.
Average rate of toll, uniformly one tenth.
Water or steam power: IS water, 20
steam. Per cent. of net profit, not given.
Increase within the year, 25 per cent.
4. Foundries and machine shops, none
proper.
5. Lumber mills: Number, SO, Loca.
ton and proprietors, not given. Num-
ber of hands: White, 232; colored, 14O ;
total, 372. Number of horses and mules,
H9. Capital employed, S130,3O0. Value
of annual product, 100000: Water or
steam power: Water, 81; steam, 81 |;
total, SO. Horse power used, 8 to 20
horse power to the mill; total horse pow
er, 1902. Percentage of net profit, not
given. Increase or decrease: No in.
crease in water power mills; 25 to 80
per cent. increase in steam.
6. Tarpentine stills, &C., none.
7. Other manufactures: Wagon and
buggy, 4; cotton seed oil, p; door, sash
aud blind, /; planning mills, 8; tin man
ufacturiug establishments, 2; brick ma.
chinery, &C., 8; drain tile, Il; nerspa-
pers and printing, q; total establish
ments, 18. Number of hands employed:
White, 40; colored, 32; total, ~. Cap.
ital employed, $4,000. Value of annual
product, $4,000.
MINES.
Number of mines in the county'
Mica, corundum, plumbago and others.
This county contributed among the lar
gest of the collections of minerals of any
county to the agricultural department.
Number of quarries? There are num-
bers of good quarries in the county, mo-
tably at Pendleton, Simpsons Mill,
Dark Corner Township, Honea Path,
Williamson, on Tugaloo and Seneca