Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-21
by the combination of tine Bessemer ore and
the Choctaw coke.
Big Cotton Mill at Deuison.

by the combination of tine Bessemer ore and
! the Choctaw coke.
Big Cotton Mill at Denison.
Twenty-four hundred New Baglanders
have put $500, 900 into cotton mill at Dem
ison as large as the Amoskeag. They have
got to make the investment $780, 600. Then
another interesting problem in the economy
OF production will be on trial. The New
Englanders believe they can buy their cot
ton at the mill doors here IS 80 pale
| cheaper than it can be bought in New Eng
land. They think there will be a saving OF
| 30 cents q bale on the COMPRISING. The
| mill men will take the cotton impressed.
The saving in freight on all goods sold IN
| Texas will be 80 cents on the 100 pounds.
| These are some of the points of advantage.
1t seems to be long step in the direction s;on
| of economy of production. The mill wnlcn
the New Englanders have built will take
10000 bales year. This means sos, 600
saved on the purchase price of the raw ma
| terial, $4,000 saved on COMPRISING. The
| total saving of this mill located among the
| cotton fields, it is estimated, will be close to
SIS, 900 q year And all that is without
any consideration of manufacturing profits
The New Englanders have got their
| moneys worth in brick and mortar and
long leaf yellow pine. Their Denison mill
hasn't turned a wheel, but it is model
architecturslly. The builder put 8, 600 car
loads of brick, made on the spot, into the
massive walls, 80 inches thick. There are
four acres of space in the four stories The
massive columns and girders, which carry
triple flooring 4 inches thick, entered into
lumber bill which was only half what it
would have been in New Hampshire. The
investment produced % per cent more
building than could have been got for the
same amount where the cotton manufactur-
ing of this country has been for generations.
whrr, the Dividends Como In.
Now it remains to be seen where the div
idends will come in for the New England
stockholders and what home market will
do for the cotton grower of Grayson county.
The problem is double ender. All of the
cotton the mill consumes will roll right ou:
of the farmers wagons. And even then
only fraction of what comes to market at
Denison will be taken. Last year there were
purchased by dealers from farmers wagons
on the streets of Denison 10000 bales Of
cotton. Sixty thousand bales were COM
pressed and handled. 1t would take six
mills the size of this to spin the cotton of
Grayson county alone. 1t would take 150
mills the size of this to spin the cotton crop
of Texas. If the planters of the wornout
fields east of the Mississippi can't under
stand the surplus, they should see Texas
The State now produces one-fifth of the en-
tire cotton crop of the South
The mill will have $50 looms and q, 900
spindles. 1t will turn out the heavier and
coarser grades of cotton cloth A Missis-
sippi Valley iobber has offered to take the
whole product. but the leading spirits in the
enterprise think the proposition will absorb
too much of the profit Cotton spinning is
%o1t Il
las and Galveston have mills, but there is
nothing Southwest to compare with the
massive structure 800 feet front in the su-
burbs of Denison.
No Trouble About Labor.
"What will you do for labor?" Mr..
Derby, the representative of the company,
was asked
'There will be no trouble on that score"
he replied. "we shall need about 800 peo-
pie, and We have had applications from
twice that number who want to work in the
mill. Look out on that broad plateau
Did you ever see any finer location for the
homes of operatives? We dig down 30 or
40 feet great round we'll through q cap of
sandstone and into a layer of packed sand.
That packed sand lies in a great basin. The
water seeps into the we'll faster than it can
be pumped out tits perfect filter. That
is the way we obtain our supply for the
city, and it is inexhaustible We have here
a perfect location and a mcdel mill We
also have an advantage in the quality of
our cotton. There is nothing better in the
United States tben the cotton which grows
along Red river in Texas. with the single
exception of the Sea Island cotton. If you
take the trouble to pull from a bale a sam
pie you will find the staple is a inches in
length" 4"