The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
A COTTON ELEVATOR.
Harrin Bros. Have Added Cotton Ele.
YatOr to Their Establishments De-
ScriptiOn Of Busy Place.

Harrin Bros. Have Added a Cotton Ele'
Yator to Their Establishments De-
scription Of Busy Place.
Last Friday afternoon we visited
the Harvin Bros. saw mill and cotton
ginning establishment, and we confess
we were very agreeably surprised to
see what a large business they are
carrying on. They have two saw
mills, a planning machine, grist MILL
three cotton gins, and a large COM
missary. Their sa@ mill is run by a
40 horse power engine, and cuts
about $4,000 feet of lumber a day.
They have an iron tram road FIVE and
a half miles long and another mile OF
wooden track, and are now building
another mile of track. This road
leads from the depot to their mills
and thence in a westerly direction IN
to the woods. From the depot to
the mills they have a double track,
and the regular railroad cars are
hauled by their own engine to their
mills to be loaded. Until recently
they owned two engines, but they
have sold one, the one of which all
the horses were afraid. This engine
hauls the railroad cars to and from
the depot, and hauls logs and cross
ties from the woods. Tie cross ties
and most of the lumber is shipped.
A very large business is done in cross
ties, large number being hewed in
the woods and others sawed at the
mill.
During the spring and summer
both saw mills are run, but during
the fall the smaller mill is stopped
and it's engine, (25-horse power) is
used to run the grist mill and cotton
gins Mr.. Harvin says he feels con-
siderable pride in having undoubted-
ly the most complete and best equip
ped ginning establishment in the
State. He runs three 60-saw Pratt
gins, to each of which is attached
self-feeder and condenser. Mr.. W.
Scott Harvin is agent for the Pratt
gins, which are said to be the best
gin made. He also is manufacturers
agent for al kinds of machinery,
guaranteeing to sell at lowest figures.
But the feature in which the Messrs.
Harvin claim superiority is their new
Munger's patent cotton elevator and
distributor, which they have just put
up, and which is the first and only
one in this State. It is a beautiful
piece of machinery, well worth the
trouble of any one going to see it.
1t cost about $500 to put in place,
and was put up by Mr. G. R. Harvin.
one has to see the machine work to
fully appreciate it. A wagon load Of
cotton is driven under the elevator
and a large telescope tube is run
down almost to the cotton. A large
35-inch fan then produces a suction
so strong that the cotton is drawn up
this tube, carried twenty-six feet to
cleaner, and thence by means of a
spiked belt carried'to the gins. The
whole machinery is SO nicely adjusted
that two boys, one to handle the tel
escopic tube in the wagon, and anoth-
Ell to look after the three gins and see
that the machinery worked all right,
is all that is necessary to take the cot
ton from the wagon, run three gins,
and turn out the cotton ready to be
packed in bales. The elevator alone
requires about two hundred feet Of
betting to run it. It takes from Is
to 20 minutes to gin bale of cotton.
The patent cleaning arrangement,
Mr.. Harvin says, is almost perfect,
and he says that the manufacturer
claims that cotton ginned in this way
will produce sample so much clean
er as to be worth a IA cent more to
the pound.
The gin is also equipped with a
seed elevator, by means of which, as
soon as the cotton is ginned, the seed
can be emptied into the wagon; or
Mr.. Harvin will buy the seed, being
agent for an oil mill.
The Messrs. Harvin keep commits
sary, in which they have stock of
groceries equal to almost any store in
the county.
They employ regularly ffty-two
hands, besides they have about thirty
others in the woods, cutting cross ties.
They pay off every two weeks, nearly
$700, and during the year they pay
not less than $4,000. All their hands
live in or near Manning, and thus it
is readily seen the business done by
this mill is equal to that done by a
large cotton factory. Besides this
they pay large sums for timber.
They think there is timber enough
easy accessible, to keep the mill run
ming about six years.