New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-25
MAKING COTTON TIES DOWN SOUTH.

| From The Atlanta Constitution
The rolling mill at Rome is turning out ten
At this rate Will make enough band one-twelfth
of the cotton crop and by running night and day, it
! will supply one-siXth OF the whole demand.
This Is Of the results Of the Rome boom two
years ago, and the active work of the business men
president Of the rolling mill, is Pennsylvanian who
was raised in the Manufacture of hoop iron and knows
all the details Of management by which the business is
As We stood looking at the rolls through which the
billes passing the white hot iron came out Of
the next TO the last roll long. thin. incandcscent
hoop, which might have been compared to a fiery
instead of pulling 1t straight out and sending It back
through the last roll by the rve ' motion me boy
as 1t appeared and bent It round him TO the
second Meantime no standing inside the fiery
circle that whipped by his legs fast that he seemed
| i'm Imminent danger of having his calves burned of
- That was the secret of my fathers success
said Mr.. NevegOld: when ! was boy started
that method more from lazness than anything else,
and I became so expert at it that It was regularly
adopted. We found that we could run IL through
the rolls quicker and get better results that way so
we have used that plan ever since.
at is not necessary however for the boy 10 stand
there and bend the hot hoop about his legs have
guide box which leads II round 70 the last roll and
dispcnses with the boy altogether VIII put mat
This min first takes pig iron Of the various grades
used to make the tough composition FOR cotton ties
Which are relocated and rolled down into small blets
These billets are cut into short pieces and heated
again Passing through number of rolls they come
on at least one thirty second of an inch thick aud
| fortv-sIx feet long They are then run through a
smoothing machine and trimmed at the ends TO a
length Of forty -four feet This cut into four pieces
and the ties made All that remains is TO put them
M IN bundles of thirty, with thirty buckles suung
| on one of the ties. The thirty ties placed In
long fat box lust wide enough for two layers of fifteen
10 lie side by side. The buckles are put on ono OF the
| inside ties and the whole pile Is doubled over and
hound with short pieces Of hoop iron. The process
of bundlng usually takes two minutes and an expert
can put up a bundle In one minute. IL takes 400
handles 10 make the days output Of ten tons. and
hand can about keep up Win the ues aS they come
out az fhP cutting machine.
The pudding is done at night 10 avoid the heat
sinoIsr fact I'm this connection IS that the puddlers
don,t sntfer from heat much here they do in
. + don't know why II Is" said Nj. Nevegold, but
they do not seem 10 get overheaed so easily IL Is
rot such an Oveip0Wetlhs neat "eio d. III ue North-
not so suifOcatng" -. ,,,,. =, -,
svlvania Whatever II Is the men feel the difference
Very greatly and better able to stand up to their
work I'm hot weather. , -,
The financial affairs of the mill are under the
| uanapement of Mr.. &. III. Cothran, young business
man Who grew ND and got his training az Rome. lie
LAYS tbe product OF the mill Is largely sold ahead, and
sbsy are now working fifty hands with weekly pay
| roll Of 500.