Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-14

The remarkable increase of manufacture
ing in the South has been the subject of
much comment during the past few
months. The development of cotton manu-
featuring has been especially rapid. While
other interests have shown marvellous
progress in certain sectiOns-as iron in
Alabama and Tennessee, and the working
in wood in different lOcalities-the in
crease in cotton manufacturing has not
| been confined to any State or section, but
is noted in every Southern State.
1t is a gratifying fact that Georgia
maintains the lead IN the spinning and
weaving OF cotton, and there is every
reason to believe that the future will find
her still in the front, and justify her
claims as being the Empire State of the
South in this as in many other respects.
To give the readers of the MORNING
News an idea of what the South has done
and is doing in this line, we cOndense
from the Manufacturers Record some
statistics on the subject which are so full
of interest that they will attract the at
tention of every one, and Will not be open
to the charge of dryness, whichIs usually
made against arrays of facts and figures ::
On the 1st of June, 1880, Alabama con-
tanned l6 cotton mills, having 55,072 spin
dies and 1000 looms; on January LIST,
1884, that State had % mills, with 3, 057
spIndles and 1,6l4 looms; Arkansas in
in 1880 had mills, 2,0l5 spindles and IS
looms; January, 1884. it had 4 mills,
6 300 spindles and 80 looms; Florida in
1880 had mill and 5, 49, spirdles, and in
1884 mills with ,91S spindles; Georgia
in 1880 had 40 mills, with 200,974 spindles
and 4, 713 looms, and in 1884 it contained
81 mills, with $40, $50 spindles and 1913
looms; Kentucky in 1899 had 3 mills,
with 9,O22 spindles and % looms,
and in 1880 mills with 26,264
spindles and AL looms; Lou
isiana in 1850 had mills with 6,097
spindles and 120 looms, and in 1884, Z mills
with 39,66S spindles and S24 looms; Mary
land, in 1880, had 10 mills with 125,0l4
spindles and 1925 looms. and in 1884 it
had "A mills with 119, 800 spindles and 2,5S1
looms; Mississippi had in 1880 8 mills
with 26, 172 spindles and 704 looms, and in
1884 II mills with 80, lbs spindles and 1, 120
looms: North Carolina in 1880 had 40 mills
with 1O2, T67 spindles and 1850 looms,
in 1881 it had % mills with 213,362
spindles and 3,5l3 looms; South
Carolina in 1880 had II mills
with 81, 7SS spindles and 1,776 looms, and
in 1884 it had 81 mills with 1871, 04S spindles
and 8 ,3S9 looms; Tennessee in 1880 had 16
mills with 46, 26S spindles and LOGS looms,
and in 1881 it had 80 mills with 1857
spindles, and 1.46l looms; Texas in 1880
had mills with 2,64S spindles land Il
looms. and in 1884 it had mills with H.
"a spindles and 165 looms; Virginia in
1880 had mills with 1896 spindles and
1924 looms, while in 1884 it had IA mills
with 66,O96 spindles and 1882 looms. 1t
Will be seen that on June 1, 1880, the
whole South, excluding Missouri, had 100
mills, containing 1889 spindles and
Is, 222 looms, while on January 1, 1884, it
had 324 mills with 1876, 422 spindles and
u. s73 looms.
Georgia alone shows an increase during
the three years and a half of p mills,
139, 156 spindles, and 3, 100 looms. Georgia
is far ahead in the size and capacity of
her mills, while North Carolina has the
greatest number of small mills.
The advantages of the Southern States
for the manufacturing of cotton goods are
superior to those of any other country or
section, and it is predicted that the South
will be the centre of this great industry
before many years.