The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-07
Progress in the Piedmont.

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development Of the cotton manufactures
of this section. 1t is q healthy growth,
and a growth from the inside. The fac.
tories, which to a greater or le,s extent
were started by foreign capital, are inn
proving and enlarging their own plants,
and attracting home capital and home
enterprise into those channels which
have been shown to be SO richly produc-
tive. This lis evidence by the simultan-
eous enlargement of the capitol and plants
of anumber of the larger mills in the
Piedmont section, and starting Of popular
movements for building new factories
where none have been before. Some of
these popular schemes look to receiving
aid from outside sources; others are
Independent of that, but they are chiefly
noticeable from the fact tnat they indi.
cate q widespread awakening of the peo.
pie to the wisdom and profit of bringing
the mills to the cotton"
There are no less than six new mills
now in progress Of building in the half
dozen counties whose centre Greenville
is, and as many more are distinctly pro.
jected. The Pelzer Manufacturing Com
.pany, in Anderson County, are doubling
their capacity by thebuilding Of another
immense four-story mill adjoining their
present large plant, aud they are putting
in at the same time small yarn mill.
The Piedmont Company, Greenville
County, is putting up another large mill
just across the river, on the Anderson
side, at Piedmont, having once before
doubled the original mill. At Enoree,
Laurens County, large mill is going up
for a company composed mostly of
Charleston men, and at Clifton, Spartan
burg County, "Clifton No. Q" is now
building, and will double the already
heavy capacity of the Clifton plant. The
Trough Shoals Factory is making ad.
ditions, and the Cherokee Falls Company
have added $125,0o0 to their capital and
will put in 1000 more spindles. Last,
the aLanneau Manufacturing Company"
have just finished right here in Greenville
one of the neatest and most compact yarn
mills in the South. It will manufacture
high grade yerns only.
So much for what is actually being done.
The proposed factories are as abundant.
Anderson has just started, by means of q
big mass meeting, a public movement
for a cotton mill, and has good sub.
scription under way. Spartanburg began
short while ago novel tn' determine d
movement for building factory on the
co operative plan, and a good start has
been made. Laurens is working energet'
tically for factory, and Seneca City is
engineering similar movement. The
people of Seneca propose 5000, ,0O0
seam power mill, and they have nearly
$50, 900 in hand and are pushing. Easley
is starting move for small mill, with
capital of $4,000 or $4,000. They
have strong grounds to hope for success
in securing the first factory ever built in
Pickens, and which it is fondly hoped
will be the beginning of shaking up
generally in the county.
This is but summary Of the state o.
affairs in what may now be considered
the manufacturing centre of the State.
It points out an immense revival in cot
ton manufacturing and is perchance but
faint indication of what may be in tbt
future. There is one fact that may be sig
ni6cant; without single exception the
new mills projected by popular enterprise
look to using steam power Correspon
deace Greenv;lle Mews