Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29
 BIGGEST MILL IN ALABAMA Dwight Company's Grand Cotton
 Manufacturing Plant. STARTING OF A MODEL TOWN Factory Admirably Equipped With the Best Known Machinery and Appliances and
 Comforts for Operatives.

Dwight, Dec. 2S.-(Special Staff Core spondence of the State Herald.)-Gadsden and Attalla and Alabama City and the state of Alabama ought to be proud Of the big new cotton mill of the Dwight Manu- featuring company, beautifully situated at the foot of Lookout mountain, half way between Etowahs growing capital and her thriving younger sister of more classical name.
 It is a grand manufacturing plant. An excellent opportunity to view it through out has just been afforded me by the courtesy of MT. H. Gardner Nichols, the agent. This mill looms up in the van guard of the inevitable transfer to the south by New England of the manufac- ture of a class of cotton goods whicn IS of worldwide demand. It means mucn more It is a conspicuous signal of the faith of capital that is keen and cautious to the last degree in the advantages or the cotton belt for the manufacture or cotton. It represents an investment or $75O,000 put down here at tune when there is universal complaint of f1nanclal timidity in taking hold of inviting enter prses. or any new or extended business venture All that money can do or may do has been and will be done in making the most completely equipped mill m the country, up to date in every appo ntmen' conducive to economy, dispatch of pro- duction and sensible accommodation 10 the needs of operatives. Soon the con cert of it's 0,000 spindles and the puIsa- tions of its 500 looms will thunder Tn the index" of industrial progress ana achleVe- mants by the south. that If yet untold, are in evidence as VerltaDle reVeiatioh of splendid possibilities.
 The mill is not yet in operation, as some eager correspondents have prematureiy stated, for the 300 car loads Of machinery received have not been entirely set III their destinations. ana all cannol .xte % ready to convert the fieecy staple into marketable cotton goods-the three-yaru sheeting. which will be the kind Of prod uct-for two or three weeks.
 True there was some ceremony anu jolly ado over the touching Of the put ion and the breaking of a christening bot tle on Christmas day, but that was merely to set the first wheel going. Tn short. to try the monster Corliss engine This is a grand machine. It IS the latest Corliss; weighs 150 tons, is !5oo horse power cross-condensing engine; nlgh pressure 28 inches 6-foot stroke ana TOW nressure, 52 inches 6-foot stroke It mas Q 24-ton shaft and a wheel 26 feet Tn diameter that will be driven to make 621s revolutions a minute-faSter than a mile every sixty seconds. Instead or peitlhg' about 17O0 or 1900 yards of manila hemp rope will be used The enormous cast ines of the component parts of this Titan of necbanical energy exacted a rare de- gree of skill, and the result is In itselI triumph of the founders genius. The h;g hoiIers-Caldwe1l twin boilers-naVe heen going for several weeks heating ana drying the vast building.
 Close to the main structure, III lo ,- inc stretch of woods of cedar, oak and nine. whose picturesque background ;s formed by the grim and rugged emi- nances of Lookout mountain, there IS snringine into life to the music or the hammer and saw as pretty village TOT operatives as kindly fancy may picture The great chimney, which IS to pe .ne landmark of a great progressive move went for this region of Alabama, you op- serve is located at the east end Of the ,reain building. It is thus placed with inc view. in the event of the success or inc nresent mill, to duplicate 1t. making a plant with 60.000 spindles: AS II IS, l. is already the largest in the state ana nne of the biggest in the south. The ,argest in the south is the Pelzer. South Ca rolina. which is being increased from so ooo to something over 100000 spindles. The biggest cotton mill plant in the. Tinted States is the Amoskeagsat Man chester, N. H. oe.or ,ooL- inc over the south for two years. decided unon this spot for southern investment, ;s an old New England company, having been formed about 1884 out of. three man ufacturing concerns at Chicopee, in cen tral Massachusetts, at the ]unctlon oi % riie G,.;oonaa and Connecticut rivers. The founders were the Dwight. Perkins and Cahot mills. The capital stock of the comnany is s1, 200, ,OO0, and it has $4 ,coo.- 0Oo surplus fund. Its home plant at Chic onee has 140,O00 spindles. Here are manu- factured the goods widely known to trade and consumers as the Dwight Star and
 The product of their Alabama mill will, as before noted. exclusively be three, yard sheeting. It will be manufactured sor eynort to Corea, China, Turkey and the north of Africa. There is great de- mand in these countries among the mum erous semi-civilized people for such goods. To many of them scissors and take long strips of the goods and by delft handling and wrapping about the person