The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-02-06
FRIGHT THE PROSPECTS
FOR SECURING A COTTON MILL FOR
DAWSON.
A Committee Now Actively at Work to
That End. Several Thousand
Dollars Already Subscribed.

Dollars Already Subscribed.
Pursuant to call the committee ap-
pointed to take in hand the matter of
soliciting subscriptions for the purpose
of building cotton fact Try in Dawson,
or inducing eastern mill owners desiring
to come south to locate here, met Friday
to prepare subscription lists and get
everything in readiness for an active
canvass.
Notwithstanding the very disagreeable
weather there was large attendance of
the members, including several from the
country and the deep interest manifest
ed clearly evidenced their determination
to make a success of the undertaking.
A definite plan of procedure was
greed upon and several matters of mo-
ment discussed, and the committee
adjourned to begin an energetic canvass
for subscriptions to the stock.
On the first Tuesday in March it is
proposed to have mass meeting of the
citizens of the city and county to further
discuss the project. The committee will
also report to that meeting their pro-
gless in securing subscriptions.
AT Fridays meeting it was announced
that $4,000 of the stock had already been
voluntarily taken. That is very encour-
aging, and when the committee gets out
among the people it is believed that the
amount required will soon be raised
Everybody knows the benefits that
would accrue to the whole county by the
establishment of such an enterprise here.
The state of South Carolina has made
many strides forward on this line, and to
show tho benefits arising .thereTom we
give the following figures: 'In and
near Spartanburg, in that state, eight
factories paid 1924, 900 in dividends dur
ing the year 1894. In the Greenville Is.
CO. News is list of seven cotton facto-
ries in Spartanburg and Greenville coun-
ties which alone pay out $4,000 in
QlVlu6uuS Seul-duuudll AhOJ "AO "0
follows: Pacolet Mfg Co., $4,000;
Clifton Mfg Co., $4,000; Converse
Mfg Co, $4,000; Enoree Mfg Co.,
$4,000, Spartan Mill, SIS, 900; Piedmont
Mills, $4,000; Pelzer Mills, 100000"
Suppose Terrell county had the above
amounts in dividend money turned 10 Sc
every six months within her borders,
together with the earnings of the hun
dreds of employees necessary TO run these
mills? What food of wealth and
prosperity would sweep over the county
Terrell has all the advantages needed to
run even greater number of factories
than those above mentioned.
1t has been ascertained that with the
mills established in The midst of the
cotton fields the raw material can be
manufactured into cloth at saving OF
five dollars per bale in the single item OF
transportation, to say nothing OF other
items. We learn that the treasurer of
one of the mills at Lowell says that their
plant in Georgia would save in the item
of TRANSPORTATION on coal alone $4,000
annually.
These Carolina mills were built with
local capital and some of them on the
installment plan such as has been out
line in the columns of THE NEWS. We
reprint. from the Greenvlle, S. c., News,
the following bearing directly on this:
.sMany man pinched himself to help
build some of these mills which are now
having dividends. Hasn't every such
man reason to be glad now that he did
ninch? When his dollar is worth SLID
either to sell or as collateral and is pay
ING him better and surer interest than
any Investment he has, why shouldn't he
be glad-especially when he can feel
that his money has not only helped him
directly, but has helped him indirectly IN
MANY ways and has done much to ouIld
ND his community and stateP"
If these Carolina people, by seIt-denlai
and economy, can raise the means 20
establish mills that are annually pouring
wealth into their homes we of Terrell
can do the same thing and secure some
of the same benefits.
Let us learn wisdom for ourselves oy
the experiences of Others.