Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-30
MILLS THE SOUTH.
Rapid Growth Of Cotton Manufacturing
Down This Way.
NORTHERN EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Outlook for Extension of Interest
Already Established Fiattering In
the Extremc-FiEures That speak
EIoauentIy-Our Advantages.

BALTIMORE. May 2e-The special
cotton-mili edition Of the Manufacturers
Record Of this week shows that the
amount Of capital invested In southern
cotton-mils increased from f2l,%O.~o IN
1880, and $sl.iOOOOO In 1880. to sl0I,OOcoOc
at present, while about {l2,000,o00 addi-
tIonal will be spent in the construction
OF mills now building and projected. II
1871, the South had 667,O0O spindles; In 1881
10000 splndles. and at the present time
10000 spIndles. while the mills under
construction will add 10000 more, or q
total Of 10000 spindles, thus doubling
the entire cotton-mnl business OF the
South
a number Of leading New England ex-
perts give their views upon the cotton
manufacturing advantages Of the South
ern States Mr.. ID. NJ. Thompson, presi-
dent Of the Corliss Engine Company, OF
Providence, and for twelve years mana
ger OF the largest mill corporation in New
England, running over 10000 spindies,
SAYS of the South's cOttOn-mlll facilities;
Years ago. after careful consideration
/ became fully convinced that the South
possessed superior advantages for the
manufacture Of cotton. yarns. and coarse
goods. ! have since had no occasion TO
change the opinion then formed.
have great faith in the possibilities of the
South believe II is and will long con-
tinue a profitable field for investment In
the manufacture of cotton. ] believe there
is an almost illimtable field for the ex-
tension Of our cotton manufacturing in
this country, and that with the extension
into finer numbers of yarn and
higher grades Of fabrics in the North,
and with the opening Of new markets
through the agency of the SOuth's supe-
riOr advantages, a vastly larger product
of coarse goods can be made. / believe
that II the extension Of manufacture in
the South Is encouraged by all people 1t
will establish a bond Of interest between
New England. the Middle States, and the
South. which will be OF great advantage
to the interests Of the nation, and in the
near future will be recognized I'm the in
dustrial and political arena of our country
as a factor OF national importance"
Mr.. G. II. McPhee. leading New Eng
land cotton-mill engineer. says: THE
next ten years will show a great in
crease In the number OF spindles in this
country. / think a large percentage Of
IL, even including the finer numbers, will
be In the Southern States. and IL Is an
indisputable fact that the average number
OF yarns spun In the South has been
raised from coarser to finer counts more
rapidly than IN New England. The phe-
nOmenal 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 custom In that section.
will cause others TO change TO finer goods.
II Is nothing more than natural that the
large percentage OF the increase in spin
dies I'm this country during the years TO
come should be at advantageous points
for manufacturing situated near the
points where the cotton IS grown than
that the iron industry OF this country
should centre somewhere near where all
the raw materials for making iron are
found "