The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-23
SPINDLES OF THE SPARTANS.
A PRETTY STORY on PROGRESS IN
SOUTH CAR0LIsA.


An increase of More Than 30 Per
Cent. In Spartanburg's Population
in the Last Three YearS-The CITY
the Leader of the state in the Cot
ton Manufacturing Industry-Sev-
entccn Mills Now in Operation in
the COunty-The. Capital Invested
sf.OS2. 900 and 0,65O Hands EN-
pIOyed.
Charleston. s. c., April 22.-The News
and Courier will publish tomorrow an
exhaustive review of the industrial condi-
ton OF Spartanburg. s. c. Some Of the
facts are worth wide publication.
The News and Courier summarizes the
review briefly as follows: THE popula-
ton of the city Of Spartanburg Increased
nearly 100 per cent. in the last census
decade. and more than 80 per cent. in the
last three years.
South Carolina leads the south in
the cotton manufacturing industry and
Spartanburg leads South Carolina. Spar
tanburg county has half as many spin
dies and 6S per cent. as many looms as
are operated in the state OF Georgia. Il
per cent. more splndles than have the
two states of Tennessee and Virginia com
L
bama and Tennessee put together and
more looms. and spindles than the Fix
states of Texas Mississippi, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida com-
bined.
now in operation in Spartanburg county
and three new mammoth mills in course
of construction. The actual amount of
capital invested In these enterprises Is
S4,OS2 600; the number of operatives, eN-
plngfNn
$780, the consumption of cotton Is 10000
bales per year, more than twice the total
cotton product of the county; and the
amount paid annually to the operatives
"Spartanburg has six banks. In the
last five years the capital invested In
banking has increased 250 per cent, and
al of the banks are thriving and sailing
down most comfortable surplus.
In addition to its cotton mills and
banks Spartanburg Is engaged IN iron
manufacturing, having the largest and
best equipped establishment IN the state
outside Of Charleston.
1T has, besides, numerous small man
ufacturing Industries. 1t is about to build
an electric railroad. 1t is crowded with
enterprising commercial houses and Is
noted for It's excellent hotels.
1T has long been famous for it's su-
perior educational institutions. Wofford
college Is the mecca of South Carolina
Methodism. Converse college justly takes
the first rank among the female colleges
of the south. The graded schools are well
ofhcered, and are crowded with ambitious
| youths"
Augusta, Ga. April 22.-The Chronicle
will say of cotton manufacturing In the
| south: Cotton manufacturing in the
south has long since passed the stage OF
| experiment. There Is no doubt IN the
minds of practical men that cotton man
| ufacturing Is conducted in the south with
| greater profit than in any other part Of
! the world. The advantages are manifold
/ and self evident to experts from the cas-
! tern states who are candid enough TO ac-
| knowledge them. The results obtained by
| the Augusta mills and those In Georgia,
| South Carolina and other southern states
| are conclusive that this great industry
| can be conducted more profitably where
| the raw material is grown and where the
| other natural conditions are most fav-
| orable.
"The annual renort Of II. II. Hicman,
| Esq. president of the GraniteVille Manu-
| featuring Company is most encouraging
and conclusive. For twenty-six years sue
| cessiVely this factory has paid ten per
its stockholders in that time 81, 100000
"The mill at Nancluse, In addition to
the dividends paid. was built out Of the
| surplus earnings of the GranteVille mill,
| at a cost of $3.50 600.
| "President Hickman says that II the
| stockholders will give him the privilege
cluse mill without calling on them for
| a dollar or adding to the capital stock.
The total surplus of the Granteyille
Manufacturing Company on March /
was over $678,OO0. The total net earn
| ings for last year were $4,000.
| 1--WE have not the slightest doubt about
| the cotton manufacturing industry grow
! ing I'm the south AS President Hickman
| wisely suggests, there is no danger of
| overproducton. The cotton that is grown
| will be manufactured. If not in the south.
/ ii will be elsewhere, and the competition
| will be all the same.
''We emphasize the facts contained in
| the report of President Hickman because
! they are full Of announcement for the
| upbuilding Of cotton manufacturing N
| the southern states. The natural al
| vantages are in our favor, and the logic
| of the situation is that the cotton mills
| must come to the south New England
and Old England may combine to retard
/ it. but they cannot prevent the fulfill
| ment of what appears to be the manifest [
! destiny OF one of the greatest industries
/ of the age in which we live.
"The cotton mills must come to the
! south"