The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-24
INVENTION.
A MACHINE WHICH MAY
REEOLCTIONIIE THE
COTTON INDUSTRY.

The Birmingham, Alabama, Age
Herald gives some particulars Of a
patented scheme which, if equal to
representation, might revolution re
the cotton industry of the South.
The project is said to comprise a
cotton ginnery, machine to pre-
pare the cotton for the spindle
spindles to turn it into yarns and
looms to convert it into cloth, the
cost of the whole plaut not to eX-
ceed $4,000. A machine is put up
at some central point in a cotton
growing cOuntrv. Its ginning ca
pacity is three bales per day
Within a radius of three or four
miles it will draw enough cotton TO
supply it for a year. The farmer
hauls his cotton to the machine just
as he now does TO the gin. Now he
pays for having it ginned and pack
ed, also for baggin9 and ties, and
then must come and get it and haul
it away to some railway station or
market town. With the new pro
cess he sells his cotton in the seed
at the market price TO the company
or owner of the gin The machine
will take the seed cotton, gIn it, put
it into rolls, the rolls be transferred
to the spindles, These yarns are
bundled up and shipped directly to
the mills to be woven iutO cloth.
The saving is the freight Of the
cotton TO the market town. the cost
of packing and the difference b.
tween the cost of bagging and ties
and the lighter covering Of the yam
bales; also the commission. insur-
ance and warehouse charges and
weighing, altogether about s. or 81
per bale, Nearly al this difference
wonld go INTO the planters pocket.
In addition to the enhanced price
of the producer, there would be a
vast amount of money kept at home
which goes to the people empIOye1 !
in spinning the raw cotton. Every
neighbOrkood would have its own
factory. giving employment to its
own people and keeplag their wages
in circulation as we'll as tile profits
of the mill owner. Next after the
spindle would come the loom. From
turning the cotton INTO yarns wOulC
come the turning it into cloth. 1t
is not likely that these little neIgh>
bOrhO0d establishment would ever
get to making the finer goods, bat
they could turn out cloth sufficient
ly fine for common uses. The in
ventor IS Mr.. II. NJ. Allen, VIII,
proposes to exhibit his machinery
at the Alabama State Fair, to be
he'd at Birmingham. The inVeD
tiOn is now the property of a stOcl
company, which has determined
since the recent successful test a
Tuscaloosa, 10 push 1t. PrOminen
among the stockholders are judy,
J. b. Head and Mr.. Robert War
mock, of Bigmingham. Mr.. Allel
himself was brought mp III a cottol
factory, and he and his brother bull
the Allen factory at PrattvIlle.--TH
South.
If We could start as many as tel
OF fifteen of these mills in thi
county, 1t would not only increas
the price of cotton but it w0ulo
give work to hundreds of our poo
IabOrers. We have always though
that this would be done some day
Who Will be the first to tIy it?
We know of a mill in Arkansa
where there Is a pully so fixed as t
lit a two horse wagon load of cor
OFT of the wagon into the thir,
story, aod as it dccends to the low
er flor it is shucked, shelled, groun
and sacked, all by machinery Fay
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