The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-14
ANDERsON'S FINE SHOWING.
Manufactures on the Incrense-The Condi-
ton of the Banks and Schools-The State
of the Farmers.

of the Farmers.
The Ncacs and Courier has done cred.
table piece of journalism in giving q re-
view of the industrial condition of South
Carolina at the opening of the year 1892
Reports from twenty-five Counties are
given. The extract below makes good
showing for Anderson County, and will
be read with interest by our people:
In Anderson County there are fc ar
cotton factories now in operation. One
of them is the Pelzer Cotton Mills, loca.
ted on saluda River, on the east side of
the County. This is one of the best mills
in the South, and is in most prosperous
condition. There are employed in this
mill about 1900 persons.
At this place is good school, mostly
supported by the company. There are
good Churches, Sunday. Schools and 9th
er Societies, including very successful
literary Society, with splendid reading
rooms and a carefully and we'll selected
library. They are in every way success
full and prosperous. Really, the Pelzer
Mills consist of three Mills, with 81 900
epindles, and 1900 looms. They consume
annually about $4,000 bales of cotton,
With such man as Capt. E. A. Smyth
as President it could not well fail to be a
success.
The Piedmont Manufacturing Compa-
ny have erected large mill on the An
derson side of the Saluda Rirer, in and
about which arc employed about 525
persons. Here, too, are established q
good system of schools and Churches,
mostly supported by the Company. They
find ready sale for their goods at rea-
sonable prices, besides giving q home
market for large quantity of country
produce of all kinds. This mill on the
Anderson side is No. 8, two others being
on the Greenville side. The one on the
Anderson side contains 22,0S0 spindles,
722 looms and consumes about forty-6re
bales of cotton per day. Col. Jas. L. Orr
is president of these mills, and Capt.
James F. Her, Superintendent. The
Piedmont Manufacturing Company is in
safe hands.
At Anderson is located the Anderson
Cotton Mill, thus giving employment to
about 250 persons. This mill has been in
operation only short time, IA little
more than year. and yet it has earned
a profit amounting to about IL per cent.
of the capital stock. As consequence
an effort is being made, which will no
doubt be successful, to double the present
capacity. At this mill also are fostered
school and Church facilities. The An
derson Cotton Mill makes an extra quail
ity of goods, for which it finds ready
market at fair prices. Mr.. James A.
Brock is president and Mr. Robert E.
Ligon superintendent.
The Pendleton Manufacturing Compa.
ny have their Mill in the most prosper
GUS condition that it has known for
years. They employ about 150 persons
This is the oldest cotton mill in the
County, but the others have been started
in and pushed on the most modern plans
and have outstripped this one. At this
place is also located a school and Church
building for the benefit Of the employees
The Pendletop Manufacturing Company
is in the most prosperous condition it has
enjoyed since the war. Mr.. Sitton is the
man who has brought it to this condition
of prosperity.
There is considerable talk. with right
smart of truth in it, about erecting a
large cotton mill at High Shoals, about
four miles southeast of Ander-
son City, at which place is good
supply of water with the finest shoals in
the County.
The Anderson Cotton Seed Oil and
Fertilizer Company at this place is one
of the best paying institutions in the
County, the stock being away above par.
This company has recently begun refining
cotton seed oil, of which it now makes as
good and pure a grade as can be found.
They employ about twenty-five persons.
Mr.. J. Fl. Townsend is the inspirator of
this establishment.
There is cotton seed oil mill located
at Bolton, which from some cause seems
not to have been pecuniary success to
all who invested in it, if to any, and con-
sequently work there was suspended not
long since, but will probably be resumed
in the near future.
Another oil mill has been talked of
and partly organized at Cooks in this
County, but no work has yet been done
towards it.
There are in this city several sash, ~
and blind factories, the most exte2f
which is owned by the sulliXs
featuring Company. AZ
made all kinds of wo9a
chiuery. They empla i
persons.
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