The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-28
NEW COTTON MILLS.
Manufacturing Cotton Pays Better
than Any Other Industry.
A Plan Showing How Any Town in
tho Cotton States Can Have Its
Own Cotton Factory,

a Elan showing How Any Town in
tho Cotton States Can Have Its
Own Cotton Factory.
from Progressive south.l,
The writer does not believe in tho
"overproduction doctrine" and will ig.
more 1t here. But under present circum-
: stances and as 'war" measure there is
s no need of an increase in the production
OF cotton and if what We read is correct,
there seems to be no necessity for an
increase of theeoutput from the mines
Consequently, we need not single i'm
migrant, because the South cannot sell,
at profitable price, what it produces.
There is business that reliable author
ity ssys "panned out" dividend last
s year from 20 to so per cent. on the capital
stock invested. Such b ing the case
there is place where expansion is need.
ed on gigantic scale. If such be the
case, the cotton manufacturing industry
pays best in the South, the assertion Of a
iron and steel mongers to the con-
dry Notwithstanding. Such being the
! case, our intention is to publish the best
q plan that We can conceive of for any
town and county in the cotton States to
have its own factory; built by its own
: people out of their own resources and
y after being finished, with it, manufacture
their own cotton. Every county should
3 have its own factory with sufficient
capacity to manufacture oil the cotton
fHssS is issno good
reason why the cotton gin, factory and
oil mill should not be combined. The
savings effected by such combination
would be immense which would include
Yae cost of b-ling, bagging and ties,
E.eS ght, waste, handling, sampling, sell
we, washing, stealing, warehouseing, etc.,
setc. The oil mill should pay rs good or
better dividends than the factory proper.
. The bulk Of the products of the oil mill
should be consumed on the adjoining
y cotton-farms. The hulls for cattle feed
y Ing and the compost heap; the oil cake
for fattening stock, and the oil itself is
useful in many ways. There is nothing
better for softening dry, hard leather, than
cotton seed oil; mixed with -four to the
consistency of soft axle grease, it is o
q good lubricant for wagon or buggy spin
Il :. dies cast iron. gearing, ETC.. used in a
"a Oh lamp Il burns about aswcrl ana
makes about as good light as any other
oil of that class, petroleum of course, ex.
sgcepted; refined cotton seed oil mixed
with hogs fat and small percentage OF
tallow makes as good a substitute for
lard as can be found.
BY religiously guarding and keeping
out Europe's paupers the cotton factories
will, In few years, materially diminish
the number of bales that goes over to
John Bull.
What little Southern town is there that
would not be on the solid road to pros
Z pcrity If 1t manufactured the cotton and
seed produced in its territory. To at.
tempt to give the interested reader min
: ute details Of the advantages to all the
8 people would consume too much space
Z, at this time. The all important question
eW rsn The thing be done9 By
t6wnship or municipal bondsi
1so Cod forbid that any State constitu i.
ton VII much longer allow any people to
vote interest bearing bonds on the necks
! of prosperity. Interest bearing bonds eat
like cancer In human flesh and unless
rooted out will destroy anybody, to which
1t may be fastened. No manufacturing
industry, nor any other, should bo put
on foot, unless established on founda-
t!9f0khat wa4ld in the future preclude
3 the possibility of its ever having to pay
Interest to any appreciable extent. II
mot with interest bearing bonds then howl
By subscription and the issuing of script
4tdence OF stock. Every citizen of the
wn and surrounding country should
Ie as much original debenture stock as
y could easily carry without embar.
ment. Many of the street loafers
3, and perhaps would, if the proper
g prevailed among the people, carry
pay for in labor, several shares OF
Dck. Farmers could pay for much OF
heirs In cotton and seed; lumber men
and brick fnakers should take stock
enough 10 supply all the material for the
= building. Artisans and common laborers
~ and would carry large percentage
stock If they had been previously
educated to see that the enterprise was
for the benefit of all the people, instead
Of few. The founders of such an en-
tsrprise should be square, level-headed
z business men and in the very outset should
eco that every safe guard possible should
be thrown around the charter that would
protect the very poorest stockholders,
e well as the most wealthy and preclude
the possibility Of the propes!y eyer being