The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-05-13
The charIesten Cotton Min 70 30 MsvsA 70
Lockhsrt Shoals.


Lockhart Shesls.
IL now appears that the developing Of the
Lockhart Shoals magnificent water power
will be practically commenced much earlier
than anticipated six months sGo, by the re-
moval OF the Charleston Cotton Mill plant 10
those Shosl..
II seems that the Charleston Mil has not
proved 10 h. .-ccc------, .vesuse OF the dim
Guilty 10 getting labor suitable 10 the demands
Of the mill in that city, snd the stockholders
DOW propose TO remove the mill TO Lockhsrt
shosl', 10 this county. where Isud sufReisst
can be bought for about what the land for
one house Is worth In Charleston; whore the
expenses Of living for operatives are from rs
to 90 per cent les, than In the city, and
where The cotton to supply the mill can be
bought at least cent per pound less aftcr
freight aud other expenses have been paid
TO take il to the city.
There are many other very important
advantages TO be secured by the StockhoId-
ers in removing the Charleston Mill TO
LockhaIt Shoals, and not the least by far is
the fact that the company will own the
whole power Of tho Shoals. that Is fully
equal to the Columbia water power, which
cost so much money to develop. and which
i, now valued at nearly one miiiion dollars.
Lookbart Shoals 10 two miles long, and
would give sufficient power TO successfully
run number Of large Factories. This vas,
power the company could sell or lease at
good round sums. or utilize Il themselves
under one organiIAii9u. Unlike locating
the mill in or near . city. the company WIN
own large area Of land around the Shoals
at very reasonable cost, which would be
doubled in value before the frst spindle
huns. and continue to enhance in value as
fast a. industries on the Shoals arc multi
piled and the population necessarily in
cr.ascs. Tbs Of itself will reimburse the
stockholders in tho Charleston mill for any
loss they will sustain by the removal.
The mills already running in the upper
part Of tho State encounter no difficulty
! in procuring intelligent labor at fair prices
We know cf families working in them who
are contcnied and happy, making and say
ing money, while the smaller children are
receiving good elementary educutions
through the lberality Of the factory owners.
1t does seem pain to us that if the stock
ladders in the Charleston Mill are not satis-
fed with tho re,Mrns ot their investmspt in
that city, the experience Of all the mills in
the up-country should convince them that
their investment would become satisfactory
if they moved the plant to point that offers
| every advantage and facility for profitable
investment: and We know no point in tho
South that offers more or greater advantages
than the never failing waters Of Lockbart
Shoals. in this County.
We agree with the Charleston Nev, and
Courier, in saying:
"A factory for the manufacture OF some
kind of cotton goods, and mill for the utili-
zati0n Of the full cotton seed product, in
every county in the South, would do more
good than so many sub-treasuries could do
in any event, and there is no reason why We
should not have the mills and factories
Foreign States and nations are manufactur-
ing nearly our whole cotton crop for us,
and We are, perhaps, the poorest people in
| Christendom. When We manufacture Our
I riofesT people m rnu NurIu.'