The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-05-05
LoskA.rt. rir.. co,sen Min.

Loekharts First Cotton Mill.
A stock company, under tho psms Of
"The Lockhart Manufacturing Company,
with capital stock Of half million dollsrs,
has been organized for the purpose Of devel-
opipg Loskhnrt Shoals aud erecting big
cotton factory thereon.
The Company was chartered by the last
General Assembly. Col. Chas. d. Farrar is
president, and there is associated with him
q good board Of directors, composed Of sstute
end successful business men. Mr.. Fsrrur
is we'll known net only in this State but all
ever the South, and in the City of New York,
having travelled for many years since the
war for the Wholesale house Of Austiu,
Nichols s. Co., of New York. The capital
stock has a'l been subscribed by responsible
rarties, and the first installment Of 20 per
cent. paid in.
WORK COMMENCED.
On short trip TO Lockharts, we found
that work hal begun ON the grounds and
around the Shoals, preparatory to building
the factory. Over 100 hands are now reg
ularly at work, saving lumber, cutting
wood, making brick, and framing the oper-
atives houses.
. MIR. L. d. Sharkey, Of Union, has the
contract to build the operatives houses.
number Of these have already been framed,
and will be completed right away to accom-
MEDIATE the werkuen, but by the time the
mill is running there will be at least l25
houses ra,dy. The houses will be two
stories, with three to four rooms Oh each
floor.
The brick is being made near the Shoals,
where there is nn Immense quantity Of
superior red briok clay.
fINE MILL SITE.
Ihaoutlay of money necessary 10 develop
this place for the first cotton mill will be
very small. The first mill which is to be
four stories, with capacity for $4,000 sp n
dies, will DO run without dam, n small
wing costing perhaps $lOO or $3.50 being
quite sufficient to turn the water into the
canal. Work on this wing dam aud canal
will commence right away.
Messrs. Lockwood, Greene & Co., mill
architects aud engineers, Of BOSTON, have
made a typographical survey of the pIooe
aud pronounce il without hesitation. the.
hnest nsturar undtVeloped waterpower in
this State. They say: II, is seldom that
water privilege exists in which all the con.
ditiops requisite for manufacturing pur-
poses are more favorable, as nature seems to
have done all that was necessary to render
the Development of power at this place
simple aud inexpensive"
fine lot Of fret cass cut granite will he
taken from the old State canal and will be
used for the found ,tion of the mill.
Some week. ago we published copious
extracts from the surveyors 8 report in which
was given the details Of the location of the
mill the Shoals. and tho work to be done,
,ss' iRhated cost. etc., which we think unnec-
essary to rspublish now.
RAILROAD.
railroad VII be built from L,ckhart
Shoals to connect with the s. u. & C. road
which will afford ample transportation facil-
tiles. Three routes for the proposed road
have been surveyed. One Of the routes goe.
10 JonesviIle, vim. Kelton one goes to Orr's
Crossing. miles above Union and the
other to point three miles below Union.
President Farrar says, however, that the
read will be completed by August lst.
LOCAL STATEMENTS.
Mcssr'. Lockwood, Greene & Company. of
Boston, will furnish the plans, etc for the
Lcckhart Shoals cotton mill.
Mr.. A. +. Walker, Of Boston, is the res.
ident engineer at Lockharts.
Mr.. W. 7, Tracy, formerly of Union, is
the bookkeeper, and IS running tho commits
sary for the factory company.
DIR. N. Wallace Culp, formerly of Union,
has located at Lockharts to practice his pro-
fession.
The newspaper correspondents who visited
Lockhart Shoa's few days since, return
their thanks 10 Mr.. J. Leon Butler for his
hospitality to them while there.