The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-19
TO START THE SPINDLES.
THE COTTON MILLS TO BE IN
OPERATION JUNE 1.

The Capacity of the New Mills Double
That OF the Old Mills-One Hundred
Hands to be Furnished Employment
and 100000 a Year, Besides the
Cotton Consumed, to be Distributed
by the New Enterprise.
The new Savannah Cotton Mills build
ing. on the Thunderbolt road, has been
completed, with the exception of a few
finishing touches and the three eighty
horse power boilers aud a 2j0-horse power
Corliss engine, with its monster fly wheel,
sixteen feet in diameter, are in place. and
machinists are busy putting up the picking
carding, spinning and drying machinery,
preparatory to turning on steam June /.
The building is a two-s5ory brick, nearly
twice as large as the old mills, and every
room is disconnected by heavy brick walls,
and in addition to the large reservoir on
top of the eastern tower wing, fire plugs
are distributed throughout the building for
use In case of fire, the artesian well, fine
flower, supplying the water. The elevator
is in the western tower wing. The build
ing will be lighted with the electric lights.
THE FACTORY BUILDING.
The first floor is given up to the engine
room, boiler room, picker room, drying ana
dyeing department, store house and card
ing room, and all the female operatives VIII
be employed on this floor.
The second floor is composed OF only one
room running the entire length Of the build
ing and width Of the main building, with
double floors and with an inner laying OF
asbestos to preclude the possibility or fire
communicating from the first to the second
floor. Seven pair of the latest improved
English mules for spinning yarn Will be 10
Gated on the second floor In what Is called
the spinning room, and three more pairs
viii be added. All of the spinning machin-
cry is Of English manufacture, and the
finest made, Maj. Warfield, the superln-
tendent, says, and all the carding nachin-
ery is of the latest improved pattern.
The capacity of the mills will be between
10000 and Il, 900 spindles, or double the
capacity of the old mills. The improved
dryer is Of a capacity to turn out $500
pounds of yarn daily.
OLD OPERATIVES TO GO BACK TO WORK.
Ali the skilled operatives who we're en-
ployed in the old mills are in reserve, and
will be ready TO 60 TO work when the plant
goes into operation.
Mai. Warfield says that the mills will
employ between 30 and 100 persons, and
will distribute annually, exclusive of money
paid out for cotton, 100000. OF the de-
mand for the manufactured product of the
mill, he entertains no doubt; in fact he
says it is not building up a new trade, but
resuming one already built up. and he says
the facilities of the old plant were not
adequate TO turn out as mach yarn by hun
dreds of thousands Of pounds as he could
have readily placed.
John o. Smith. from whom the
site for the mills was purchased,
has dedicated twenty feet of ground front
ing the mills, and the Savannah Cotton
Mills Company has given an additional
twentu feet for a forty foot street west of
the mills which Mr.. Smith has named War
field avenue. The avenue will extend from
the canal to the southern boundary of Mr..
Smiths property.