The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-05-29

ready for it.
No. 4 is a monster in size and a
beauty in symmetry and arrangement:
1t was began December s, 1894, and
will be completed this fall. The roof
is being put on now.
It is 500 feet long by 131 feet wide,
80 feet high, in four stories at one end
and five at the other. It will have
between six and seven acres of floor
space and will be lighted by about $50
windows. Eight-tenths Of the wall
space will be glass. The mill is built
according to modern ideas with the
weight and strain all borne by columns
reaching from foundation to roof, the
walls being merely the casing. Green
vile people can get an idea Of the size
of this building from the calculation
that its length would extend from the
door of the County court house to the
corner of Main street and McBee ave-
nue., where Humphreys shoe store
stands. Imagine a building the whole
length of that long block and twice
the height of the stores on it and an
idea can be gained Of how mill No. 4
looks. There will be a tower 110 feet
high at each corner.
The building is, of course, of brick
of which 100000 will be used:
Including the warehouses 1000, 900
brick will have been utilized in this
little job. The roof will be fat and Of
gravel, the towers trimmed with gran
tie and copper rooted. In thu base
ment there will be the cloth roum, re-
pair shops and machinery by which
heated air in winter and fresh air in
summer will be pumped into each story
so that the temperature in every part
of every story will be always the same
and the employees will have constant
ly new atmosphese to breath as that
already used is driven out. The small
engine to drive the fans will be the
only one on the place. All the bal
ance Of the power will be brought by
the wires from the dam below. The
heated air will obtain its warmth from
steam coils through which it will pass.
Two hundred men are now at work
on the building and 18O are on the
dam.
Elevators ale at twork shooting work
men and material up and down. Steam
engines are everywhere. There must
be 20 of them on the building and
dam together. 1t would make an old
time builder open his eyes to see the
elevators at the mill and the cable
hoists and huge derricks at the dam
carrying up and down, high in the
air over the river and around in all
directions loads which hundreds Of
men would require long hours in haul
ing. !,
When the fourth mill is completed
the Pelzer Company will be making
into cloth $4,000 bales Of cotton-1O,-
600 more than are made in the whole
County Of Greenville. More cotton
will be bought here than at any mar
ket in the State outside Of Charleston
and every pound Of it will be used
where it is bought. Thirteen years
ago there was not even a flag station
on the G. & G.. road at the point near
est Wilson's bridge. Now a spur Of
the road runs to- the mills and the
Pelzer Company pays $1,000 year
freights. With the new mill the an
nual freights will be close to 100000.
The passenger ticket sales at Pelzer are
$4,000 year now and will probably
be s12, 1000 next year.
One of the biggest, liveliest, busiest
towns in the State-a town buying
IS, 1000 bales Of cotton and doing a
business of million and half dol
lars year-will have been built where
there was an undisturbed wilderness
on the bank Of a quiet river 13 years
pgo. This town will have the biggest
manufacturing plant in the South,
mill building which has few if any
equals in the world and one Of half
a dozen large mills in the world
run by electricity developed by water
power.
The Pelzer Company will not buy
As, 900 bales of cotton at Pelzer, but
will use that quantity. 1t is likely
that at least 10000 of these bales Of
cotton will have to be shipped to Pei
ger; but the business representing
them is expected to be there.
It is q notable fact that this city
and the enormous enterprises and pro-
duction it represents has been built
from the wilderness quietly and unos-
tentatiously so that people within a
few miles Of it have net~known what
it means or formed an idea Of its i'm
portance. Nobody in Greenville, for
instance, or even in Williamson,
which is only two miles away, has un-
derstood clearly that the Pelzer mill
is one of the largest manufacturing
enterprises in the world. When No.
4 is completed 100000 spindles will
be in operation in the town along the
Saluda where the wilderness was 13
years ago, and there are not more than
four or five corporations on this globe
which can show more spindles working
under one management. In Russia,
where there is corporation control
ling 10000 spindles in many separate
buildings, and in Massachusetts where
one name includes 400,0 900 spindlec
the Pelzer mill is eclipsed, but the in
stances are very few; and nowhere
else in this world is there mill as
big as Pelzer No. 4 in the State of
South Carolina, United States Of Am
erica under one roof and run by elec-
tricity.
We have accomplished marvel and
achieved miracle here in South Car
olina without the knowledge of people
living within few miles Of it: The
Pelzer people work quietly. They do
business and shun notoriety and ad.
vertising, holding to the goof old
Charleston ideas against personal or
corporation putting and blowing. MIR:
Pelzer, whose money was the chief
power in building the town Of Pelzer,
and who has half million dollars in
yeeted there and in other factories in
the State, and who could buy dozen
and have himself puffed
by the column every day in the year
if he liked, hates to see his name in
print and is good deal more bashful
about publications than the average