Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-31
DOUBLED SINCE 1890.
The Cotton Mill Industry of the South-New England Experts on Our
 Future.

Baltimore. May 29-The special cotton mill edition of the Manufacturers Re cord of this week shows that the amount of capital invested in southern cotton mills increased from $2l, 100000 in 1880 and $61, 100, 900 in 1890 to S107 OO9O 900 at present. while about $120O0,0O0 addi- tional will be spent in the construction of the mills now building and projected.
 In 1880 the south had 667 900 spindles in 1891, 100000 spindles, and at the present time 3,000,000 spindles, while the mills under construction will add 500,0OO spindles more, or total of S.5O0,OOO spindles, thus doubling the entire cotton mill business of the south since 1890.
 A number of leading New England ex- perts give their Views upon the cUtten manufacture advantages of the south ern states.
 Mir D. NJ. Thompson. president of the Corlss Engine company of Providence, R l., and for twelve years manager of the largest mill corporation in New Eng land, running over 900 Spindles, says of the south cotton mill facilities:
 Years ago, after a careful considera- tion, l became fully convinced that the south possessed superior advantages for the manufacture Of cotton yarns and coarse goods. have since had no oc- casion to change the opinion then formed I have great faith in the pos abilities of the south. l believe 1t Is and will long continue profitable field for investment in the manufacture or cotton. 1 believe there is an almost illimitable field for the extension of cur cotton manufacturing in this country and that with the extension into finer numbers of yarn and higher grades of fabric in the north and with the open- ing of new markets through the agency of ha cO11th'c g1lDpriOr n1VantaReS vastly larger product of coarse goods can be made. I believe that the extension of the manufacture of the south should be encouraged by all people. It will es- tablish bond of interest between New England the middle states and the south, which will be of great good to the interests of the nation and in the near future will be recognized in the indus trial arena of our country as factor of national importance"
 MT. c. R. Makepeace, leading New England cotton mill engineer, says: "The next ten years will show great increase in the number of spindles in this country I think a large percent age of it, even including the finer mum bers, will be in the southern states, and it is an indisputable fact that the aver age number of yarns spun in the south has been raised from coarser to finer counts more rapidly than has been the tendency in this direction in New Eng land. The phenomenal success of some mills erected in the south during the last four years, which are making a finer grade of goods than has been the GUS tom in that section will cause others to change to finer goods. It Is nothing more than natural that the large percentage of increase in spindles in this country during the year comes to advantageous points for manufacturing, situated near the point where the cotton is grown, or that the iron industry of this country should center somewhere near where all the raw materials for making iron are fo1ID6 ''