Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-27

factory:
First: Now. is the accepted
time. The cotton factory tide, SO
10 speak, running southwark for
some time, is approaching the
flood is already on the young
food" as tide-water people express
it, and we must seize the opportu-
nifty now or perhaps lose it alto
gether.
Second: BY building a cotton
factory during the year 1895 we
will be able 10 DO so under more
advantageous circumstances than
ever before, because labor is cheap
er. material is cheaper, and there IS
more idle money seeking invest
ment than ever before in the his
tory of this country, and as
@prollary 10 this, better per
clat. larger dividend could be
earned and declared on the IN
vestment.
Third: 4 hundred thousand
dollar cotton factory would pay to
its operatives weekly more money
'c-tffIatt ttffIIatt-our two local banks pay out
ia salaries ina whole year and
they have both h-t-og ether
aLout the same capital, one
hundred thousand dollars in
aNbole year. And these weekly
wages to operatives would all, or
neatly all, be spent with the mer-
chants of our town. AS an illus
tration, the cotton factory at Bam-
berg in Barnwell county with less
thau one hundred thousand dol
lars of capital pays out three thou
sand dollars per week to its en-
ployees. For the truth OF thls we
have the assurance of the officers
of the factory and the local news
paper.
Fourth: 1t is the history of cot
top factories that after running a
wear or two the plant Is enlarged,
thu capacity doubled or treb.ed,
and the number Of operatives IN
creased, because it pays to do SO,
as The expense of doubling the
capacity and output of such plant
does not equal tie original outlay
while the profits may be doubled.
Thisis the history of other 'facto-
ries and there is no reason to
doubt that the same result would
follow if one be built in Edge
field
Fifth: Our taxes town, county,
late would be decreased. In
proa Of this we refer to those
towas having made such invest
mell!s.
Sixth: Edgefeld would become
a better cotton market. Such
mill rs we nave described would con
sun,:, approximately, ten thousand
bales Of cotton per annum. AT
present the maximum limit of cot
ton purchased here per annum is
four thousand bales. A cotton
factoly then would give EdgeGeld
demand for fourteen thousand
bales almost quadrupling the pres
ent demand.
Sew .nth: 1t would double or
treble the attendants Oh our schools
and churches. 1t would be the
means of renting our vacant stores
and dwelling houses and create a
healthy demand for new ones. 1t
would give us, in the course of
time. water works and electric
lights and with little cost.
These promises and predictions
are not visionary but sober reali-
ties the actual experience of other
towns in this State.
Tia high water mark of factory
building in the South has not
beet; 'eached, and ere that time
come. when all this beloved South
lar.d If ours shall hum with the
buz al i whir of machinery, Edge
field will have factories numbers
of them, as sure as the sun shines,
and il requires no great faith in
the future to see or predict these
things they are matters of actual
demonstration. But the present
generation in Edgef9ld, if itwish-
es to s.e the beginning of such an
era, must itself make that begin
ming, and no man can see the END
thereof.