The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

caplt8l tnat QUILT Cn6 1act0ry belonged
to those men. A lawsuit in equity
resulted in Mr.. Hutchings losing his
case and the factory in some way fell
into ID. w. Moore's hands. Mr.. Hutch.
ings then quite the factory business
and went to preaching in Charleston
and Savannah with great success.
knew OF his paying some OF his former
debts with money he received for
preaching at these places.
Not far from 1887 Mr.. Vardry McBee
built q factory on Reedy River, not
far from Greenville. This was u brick
| building and was the best house that
had been put up for cotton factories in
the State. / think 1T was about 1887
/ that DR.. Bivings came to Spartanburg
/, and originated what was then called
Bivingsville. That was the most ex-
tensive enterprise in the manufacture
Of cotton that had been originated in
the State. From some cause a lawsuit
sprung up, much. to the injury of all
parties concern in it. Some time
about '46 or AT DR.. Bivings came to
Middle Tiger and built factory, then
called Crawfordsville, now called Fair
mont and operated 1t to the end OF the
Confederate war; AT what time Valley
Falls commenced business, do not
know 1t was running during the war.
on Rabun's creek, Laurens County.
1t was said that it was not financial
success. l believe that it was burned.
They were both lawyers. Both were
afterwards candidates for Congress.
Simpson succeeded; Downs failed.
There was once a small factory on a
prong of Reedy River, in Greenville
County. A man by the name of Berry
was concerned in it. I saw q small
factory on "a big creek two or three
miles below old Pendleton.
1t is we'll know that there was
large cotton factory near Columbia. on
COnfederat war. Nicholas Vicele Van
Patton, after going three times to
England purchasing machinery for
parties at the North, came to what
was then known as CantrelPs shoals
on Enoree and put up q cotton factory.
VanPatton was said to be the best
mechanic in the world. After short |
time he piled up his machinery and
went to work the third of century |
trying to establish perpetual motion,
spending thousands OF dollars without |
success.
There are few places, Mr.. Editor, so |
well adapted to manufacturing pur-
poses as CantrelPs, or VanPatton |
oho]io. hS SnGlTo lall 10 odlu W De
fifty feet. The river approaches the
fall in a horse shoe shape making
peninsula of fifteen or twenty acres.
BY making solid dam, the peninsula
could be made u water reservoir which,
by tunneling on both sides of the
river tapping the reservoir, two addi-
tionul falls could be secured. By max
Ing the dam high enough to catch the
night and Sunday flow of water six
each as large as Pelham,
could be operated.
Vaucluse, in Edgefeld County, has
been cotton manufacturing establish
ment for more than half a century. |
believe it is the only concern in this
State that ever was attempted to be
operated by slave or negro labor. The
experiment sgnally failed. The
negroes robbed the factory and burnt
1t, or attempted to burn it and were
hanged. When Northern member
of Congress told McDuffie to build a
factory, put his negroes to work in it
and get the benefit of a protective
tariff, he replied by relating the Vau-
cluse matter and showed that the
and treacherous character Of
the negroes made them unfit for manu-.
featuring purposes.