The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-21
COTTON BAGGING.
FACTS AND FIGURES On WHICH THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE PROCEEDS.
How the Cotton Bagging Will Be Source
of Immense Profit to the South-Where
It Will Come From.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, August 12.-The
Alliance men say that the jute bagging
has come and gone, and that there is
now no manner of doubt that this years
crop will be marketed in baggins made
from the tlcecy staple itself.
The fight on the jute trust started in
Birmingham on the 18th day of last
May. when the representatives OF four:
teen States met in council and declared
that there was but one way to solve the
question, and that was for the South to
naaufacesGGTe ger Own hassing. s. great
and so earnsst has the fight been against
the jutc covering that a few weeks ago
when an Alliance meeting was held at
Jefferson, in Marengo County, several
farmers who had bundles of it left over
from last year invited the delegation to
the commons, and there in the presence OF
all the bagging was consigned to the
flames, and around no bonfire that had
burned in the State for thirty years has
there been such rejoicing as was there
around this. The same intensity of feel
ing exists, too, in Choctaw County, and
about the same time that the Jcffer-
son farmers were burning their clear
ings from last year, the Warwick Hill
planters we're burying theirs, and on the
SPOT where the jute is buried there
stands a white pine board, and in plain
figures, so that the wayfarer, though a
fool, may read, is this inscriptions:
"E1ected to the memory of the Jute
trust, killed and buried by the Southern
farmers, in the year of our Lord eiSh-
teen hundred and eighty nine. !"
Knowing that such sentiment exists
throughout the State, it is not strange
that the meeting of the State Alliance,
which has just concluded at Auburn,
should have been one of the most
largely attended and enthusiastic that
has ever been held in the State. 1t was
a gathering, too, of practical farmers,
who. by the sweat of their brow. have
long enough paid tribute to bloated
stockholders and trusts of all kinds,
and these horny-handcd sons of toll
took hold of the question as it now
stands, and discussed it in every possible
light that the judgment and experience
of wears could suggest. The result is
that the meeting has adjourned and the
farmers have gone home with a feeling
of satisfaction and determination that
they have never before possessed.
The question of whether jute should
be used by the Alliance men was buried
beneath an avalanche of noes, and it
was expressly agreed and understood
that in the event of the supply of cotton
bacgine falling short, that jute should
not be used as a substitute. but use any
thing else, no matter what it was: The
question OF the manufacture of the cot
ton bagging was discussed in all its
details, and the showing which was made
places Alabama in the vanguard of the
States that are fighting to the death this
fearful tax and awful monster, the Jute
trust. into whose yoracious nav the
Southern farmers have for twenty years
been pouring the fruits of their honest
toll.
There arc now in Alabama two manu-
factories which are producing 30, 600
Yards of bagging per day, and few
davs at furthest will see two more in
operation, the output of which will be
$4,000 yards. These mills are the ALI
ance Mill at Florence, 10000 yards
daily: the Rock Mills, Rock Mill, Ran
dolph County, 10000 yards daily; TuS-
caloosa Mills, Tuscaloosa, 10000 yards
daily; Tallassee Mills, Tallassee, 5000
yards daily. This will give within the
State a daily output of $4,000 yards.
If the mills run four months the total
number of yards manufactured would
be 1850, 900 yards, and this at six yards
to the bale would put in marketable
form 7SO, 900 bales, which is about the
size Of Alabama's crop. The only great
DELAY, so the Alliance men claim, will
be within the next few weeks, aud after
that time the supply will be almost II
not quite equal to the demand. The
only disadvantage this will have will be
to delay the marketing of the crop, and
the members throughout the State say
that they are willing to hold it back,
even to the enduring of some hardshlps,
to carry their point, and from the pres
ent outlook it seems that the largest
portion of Alabamas crop will be packed
injection bagging. ;,
i The other States are not all so well
situated as Alabama, but Louisiana,
with the Lane and Odenheimer mills
with their output of 10000 yards per
day, will turn out enough to supply the