The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-25
LOOMS OF LEXINGTON.
Great Cotton Mills Are Springing Up
DESPITE stHard Times"

Despite "Hard Times.''
\ special from Lexington to the
Columbia State says: Notwithstand-
ing the cry of hard times this section
of Lexington county is determined
not to be behind in the race of cotton
manufacture. The main building of
Sake Gotha mills, which is the new
factory that is being constructed on
the site of the old Red Bank mills,
two miles from Lexington depot, is
rapidly approaching completion. This
structure is 325 feet long by Sc feet
wide, one story high, tin rooted, the
walls pierced by numerous large win
dows,, are built of excellent native
granite taken from quarries opened on
the spot in the adjacent hills, and Of
sandstone found in great abundance
and of superior quality only a mile
and half from the mill.
This work is under the Immediate
supervision of Capt. Robert Hilton,
an experienced mill man, and ". T.
Roof, the president of the new com
pany, who is also the energetic and
efficient president of the Lexington
Manufacturing Company. The Sake
Gotha mills will be filed with the
best and most improved modern ma
chinery for cotton manufacture, and
furnished throughout with all modern
appliances for lighting, ventilation,
safety from fire, etc.
The capacity Of this new mill will
be 5000 spindles and 225 looms, and
will manufacture 40-inch sheetlng and
shirting of high grade, and fine yarns,
ranging from numbers 2S to 40. The
principal part of masonry is about
completed; large force Of carpenters
are now at work or the building. and
it's enterprising projectors hope to
have it ready for machinery by the
18th of next month. -
Since the burning of the old Red
Bank mills the mill of the Lexington
Manufacturing Company, here near
the village, on Twelve Mill Greek, has
been running day and night, making
it's 104 looms and 5000 spindles equal
to capacity of 2OS looms and 5000
spindles. This mill is over 200 feet
long and about IS feetwide, two stories
high, built also of native granite, quar-
ried at the site, covered with tin and
furnished throughout with all the mod
ern improvements for lightning, ventl-
lation and safety from fire. It has
new and improved machinery, and
manufactures superior quality Of tick
inc and drilling, The management of
this enterprise is excellent and has been
highly successful, and it is growing IN
interest and Importance to this place.
II it is true that the man that causes
two blades of grass to grow where but
one grew before should be looked upon
as a public benefactor, how much
greater public benefactors are those
who by their enterprise, energy and
capital develop the industrial resources
of the country--build cotton mills, open
rock quarries and start up other enter
prises which give steady and remuner-
aative employment to hundreds of hands
and heads that would otherwise be
comparatively idle. These cotton mills
furnish good and handy market for
the farmers within a radius OF eight
and ten miles around them, not only
for their cotton but for all the pro-
ducts of their farms-their wood and
timber, as we'll as fruit, vegetables,
poultry and fresh meats, thus stimu-
latins and enlarging every branch OF
productive industry in the community.
Let us have more and a greater variety
of these object lessons of practical
wisdom, and less fruitless political agl-
tation and discussion, and party poll
tics in South Carolina.