The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-10-03
ISSUED BY THE BOARD OF
TRADE TO ALL OUR CITIZENS.
ON THE ALL IMPORTANT SUB
jet OF A COTTON MILL,
Showing How a Cotton Mill In Austin
VIII Make Better Profits than In
Any Other Southern City-A Fine
Investment for Everyone.

mammoth water power for which the
city of Austin spent 81, 100000 to obtain,
by which means the city could in the
near future hope to bring manufacturing
industries to her door. Austin should
come to the front as a manufacturing
centre and we now have the pleasure Of
announcing to our citizens a plan by
which we may take the initial steps to-
wards the Inauguration of manufactur-
ing enterprises.
An opportunity is now presented to the
people of Austin and Travis county who
have surplus money on hand and to any
one, who may wish to put their savings
into some legitimate business of sure
and profitable investment in which there
can be no risk. We have issued pros
pectus of the cotton mill to be built on
what is called the installment plan. The
first question a person would naturally ask
would be what advantages has Austin
over any New England city or manu-
featuring centre whose entire efforts are
devoted to the fostering and building
up of large mills for the manufacture
tages has Austin over any cotton manu-.
featuring centre in the South? These
questions we are prepared to answer as
follows:
Advantages of the cotton mill in Aus
tin over one built in any city in the New
England States: -.r
First-The heavy freights, insurance
and brokerage charges on cotton in its
raw state, to say nothing of having to
pay the above items on which there is
about 10 per cent waste would naturally
give mill situated in Austin to start
with clean saving of 1 IA cents per
pound net profit over any cotton mill in
any city in the New England States.
>Second-The, cost of power is a very
serious question with. all New ngland
mills. Water power, is used to great
extent, but there is no point in New
England today where water is used as
power but what is owned and controlled
by water power companies whose charges
are never less than $50 per horse power
per annum of ~ hours per day, or double
that amount for a day and night run,
where steam power is used with coal
running from So to $3.50 per ton the
average power is $40 per horse power
per annum of 10 hours per day.
The city council of Austin passed an
ordinance granting us the use OF water
power forj2 years at a rate of 81 per
horse power per annum, working "A
hours per day for $50 horse power, or
for electri6 power at $40 per horse power
for the FIRST two years and $l2.5O per
horse power for the remaining 1S years.
Thus take two mills of $50 horse power
each, one jim New England and one in
Austin. 3fhe advantages Austin would
New England mill; water power per
annum att the rate of "a hours per day,
averaging $50 per horse power per an
mum, $T2,500.
/. AnGtin mill; water power per annum
- be !, horse power, $1,000
~ Saving to the mill built in Austin, per
annum, $11, 800
Now take two mills, one built in New
England using steam power at the rate
of $40 per horse power per annum OF IL
hours per day or SIC per horse power
of "a hours per day for a mill using 2oO
horse power and the cost would be to
such a mill per year the sum OF Sl9,oOo.
Austin mill water power per annum
of "a hours per day, $1,000. -.
The saving of the Austin mill per
year would be $4,000.
Thus it will be seen that Austlns cot
ton mill would save on an average the
tidy sum of almost $4,000 per annuml
over that of any New England mill
using the same amount of power; TINS
would amount to a saving OF lU per
cent to an Austin mill on power alone
sunnosing the two mills should have the
same amount of looms and spindles ana
should produce an average or 5o,ooo
hounds of cloth per week. The Austin
mill would save one and quarter cents
per pound on the raw cotton alone, SO
that one weeks saving i'll cotton would
amount to 1915 and in one year 1t would
amount to S19,500. Add to this our saw
. ings in the cost of power, 5000, and we
would show saving over any New Eng
land mill of $34, 800, or about % per cent;
The advantages of Austin's cotton mill
over any other Southern mill with the
same amount of machinery using the
same amount of horse power. would snow
n great saving of money on account Oh
having clear water. Of the great num-
Der of cotton mills that have been built
in the Southern States up to the present
time not one yard of cloth woven by
these mills is bleached, dyed or printed;
And why, simply because the soil IS OF
such character as to discolor any 3ody Oh
water to a dirty reddish tinge, and III Or
der to bleach, dye or print the goods must
be first placed in an iron kier and boiled
over night with q mixture OF soda-asn
and soft soap, then taken out and placed
in large wooden kier with perforated
top and bottom and then rinsed with pure
spring water. The goods are then gwen
quick baths of clear liquor of chloride-ot'
lime and sulphuric acid; then thoroughly
washed in water; then soaped and blued
and then dried and passed through mix
lure OF pure Clean water ana STARCH, tnel
dried again. 1t can be seen that it is nee
essary to have pure, clean water to fin
ish this class of goods, therefore all of thu
goods woven by these mills are shipped
to New England to be finished. The!
must either sell their goods to the bleach
cries or print works or pay an exorbitan
price to have them finished, so that aftel
paying freight and insurance charges OF
the cloth in shipment, then pay fol
the cost of finishing. The goods are theI
shipped to New York and held in stor
age until sold, making an extra cost tC
the mill of about one cent and half pei
pound, which could be saved them if they
were fortunate enough to have pure
spring water at their mills. So that mills
IN the Carolnas, Georgia and Alabama
equipped with the same amount of looms
and spindles as a mill in Austin, and both
making the same class of goods averaging
10000 pounds of cloth per week would
show great difference in the profits of
the two mills. Austin would show prof,
it of cents per pound making profits
uer week of $1,000; Carolina mills with
profit of IL cents per pound, $3.50;
profits of Austin mill over Carolina mill
per week would be $3.50. or about Is per
cent more in profits for mills in Austin do
ing their own bleaching. dyeing and print
inc in n1ooo of ho vino 70 L. 1T, ,,ro-