The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-24

large hotel built on the highest hill in
the town and commanding magnificent
views is kept by N. II. Deal. With the
completion ofMill No. 8, it is expected
that three new stores will be built, bnt
the church and school house will contin-
ne to give ample facilities for the in.
creased population.
The new mill site is on the Anderson
County side of the river at point direct
| lY opposite the old mill and about 400
feet from it. The structure stands almost
at right angles to the old mill and to the
river. It is a magnificent piece of mill
construction, and will be when completed,
according to the verdict of its construc-
tors, one Of the best factory buildingslin
the country. 'I am building" said
President Hammett, "the best mill l
ever saw, and I qualify that by saying
that have not seen them ALL" The
building was designed by O. R. Make.
peace & CO., architects and mill engi.
neers Of. Providence, R. T., and is being
built by the firm Of eagle g Davis, COM
posed Of Capt. J.W. eagle and ". T.
Davis. The mill is accurately represen.
ted in the accompanying cut, as it will
be when complete.
The main building is 252 feet long by
100 feet wide and four stories high. The
picker room, extending at right angles
from the southern end of the main build.
ing, is 107 feet long by 76 feet wide and
four stories high, and the connection be.
tween the two is "a feet by u, the place
of the lower floor therein being taken by
spacious arch and driveway. From the
middle front is tower twenty.four by
twenty. FIVE feet and rising to the height
of ninety. four feet, and rear tower is to
contain the sanitary furnishings for the
building, being twelve by eighteen feet
and fifty feet high. The foundations all
around are Of native granite quarried
from the hills near by, and are eight feet
broad and laid in cement. On them rise
the walls of brick, thirty-two inches
thick on the first floor and narrowing
four inches with each succeeding story.
The double thickness floors, four and a
quarter inches through, are supported
by three rows of columns on each floor,
or 1O4 in all, the columns joined so as to
form continuous supports from the gran.
ite foundation, on which they separately
rest to the trusses of the roof. The struct-
ure has 100000 square feet Of floor space.
It is fitted with. 496 large windows and
27 doors. The million and half of
brick and 100000 feet of lumber will
be used in its construction. The mill
will be finished plainly but in good taste
and without any gingerbread" architec.
ture. The power for the new factory will
be furnished by three large turbine wheels
aggregating 300 horse power. A broad
canal ofseventy five or eighty feet vide
and enclosed by massive stone walls will
convey the water from the dam to, the
wheel pit at the northern end of the big
building, the foundation wall of which
forms section of the canal bank. The
new mill will depend altogether on water
power, and will have the entire available
supply at its disposal, the intention being
to supplement with steam power for
Mills Numbers and 2 when the water
is too high OF too low to run all three.
For this purpose, a new 800 horse power
engine has been ordered to take the place
of the 250 horse power now in use with
the old mill. The combined and COM
pleted mills will require 1900 horse
power and will be actually supplied with
1000. tits also in contemplation to
build new stone dam across the river
when tile present timber dam shall show
need of repairs, and when that is done 8
neat iron bridge will be thrown across
the stream between the two factories, eur
mounting the stone dam. The distance
is about 400 feet and the bridge would
offer the easy and convenient commnni'
cation desirable between the two mills.
The planting of this immense new mill
on the Anderson County side of the river
has caused the springing up of hundred
new operatives houses there, spreading
the villsge of Piedmont across the stream
and all over the rolling height on thai
side. One hundred and fifty houses will
be built in all, being of uniform size and
design, one story high and four rooms
With its streets regularly laid of and itl
neat tenement houses ranged in unifor.
nifty along the climbing slopes above the
mill, the new village presents pictur.
esque view. Almost every one of the
houses now completed has already beer
occupied by families who are waiting 70,
work in the new mill. The fifty Other
houses will be built rapidly and the vii
lage will stretched out along the Level
platue reached by the new street, ascend
ing from the river bank at the new mill
This height is already crowned BY
handsome o.story house being BULL
for Assistant Superintendent MoK Kinney
The house will be large, containing sever
rooms and conveniently arranged. Broae
piazzas surround two sides of it from
which pleasing bird's.eye view Of tht
busy village is to be had.
At ones feet at the foot ofthe slope il
the new mill building, thronged witt
busy workmen bustling with bee hiy'
activity. Then the river pouring owe
the dam and beyond it the long fou
story mill building, with its counties
windows and The subdued roar of mum
berless swift moving machines. Abov'
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