The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
PEIZER.

wiidcrr. S at pclzcr, where to-day
stands the finest TIN mil in the
world. Ind cd PtIzer might be caIlrd
the "Maglc City, 50 quick has been
her growth. To-day three III usand
people arc employed b. the mill,
while Il few years ago there were
.carctly Il dozen ali told who lived III
that set ton OF Andersen county.
PcIzcr is situated on The Saluda
river, eighteen miles cat of thu city "f
Ander>,r. The town has grown from
noth'n" to one Ut b-twccu 1000
and SOOi inhabitants, and is the
fourth town in South Carolina ii
WI starle,i. buiIt and establish d in
thirteen rears--a town representing
investments :. + over Il million d"llar>
a town without Il corporation. mu-
nlcipal government or any po i,lcs-
yet Il town in which di @. der is almost
unknown, IN which The peoplr- arc
III lily, N r"l, sob'.r and con'cutrd. in
hich all the depa'tm nts, street
hcallh, poI;cc, fire and all, are run
without comp':lint and with thorough
fIicicnry. Such is the T.. cord Of Pei
Ii L.
The Pclzcr Manu!a' turing CompH-
~ was organized III Char c-ton in
1851 with 4 capital stock S400, 900,
.IIu the sit SC ectrd tr the mill was
On the S"luda river. in And,r on
county. Wilson's shoals wc'e con
si'lrr-d the best, beng only half "a
mile from the Co'umb Il aud Green
Vile raiIroaG. Mill No. l. "ith 10
OOu spindies. which began business in
1883, was followed by Mill No 2, in
1H5, and Mil No. ). in 1883. This
uro ght the tai IF ppm lies to $4,000
Il, d looms to l 600. The paid-up
capital had, in h. mean ime. be II III
creased to s6D0.O00. Then the work
Of building Mill No 4 was began
which has r-c' ntly been c"mplcted
the largest mill u"der one roof that
can be found. The capital Of the
company Was increased to one million
dollars, the new stock being placed al
- per cent. premium, netting the
company 100000.
No. 4 is a monster in s'ze and
beauty in symmetry aud arrange
ment. 1t is 5OS feet long By l3l fee
wide. is four stories ut one end anc
five at the other. 1t has between SIX
and seven acres of flour space, and i;
lighted with alb ut $50 windows
Eight-tenths of the wall space is glass
The mill is built according to modern
ideas, with the weight aud strain al
'orne by columns reaching from
foundation to roo, the walls being
merely the casing. There are tower:
10 f ct high at each conner. The
buildings are all Of brick. The roo1
's fiat aud covered with gravel, and
the towers trimmed with granite. HIT
air is pumped in by meaus of machin-
cry in the winter, and cold air in sum,
mer. By this means The health of the
operatives is always go'd, and they
can do much more work.
Pelzer makes inlo cloth 45, 900 bales
of cotton per annum, and the company
pays out $500 900 Y. arly GU freishts.
Pelzer has the biggest n,anuf;lctur-
ing plant iu the South, q mill build
ing which has few, if any, equals in
the world, aud one of half q dozen
large mills in the world run by elec-
tricity, developed by water power. In
Russia, where there is a corporation
controlling 100000 spindles in many
separate buildings, and in Massachu-
sets where one name ncIuies 10000
spndles, The Pcl2er mill is eclipsch,
but the instances are very few; aud
unwhcre e's, in the world is there a
null as big rs PeJzcr No. 4 under one
roof aud run by eIcatricity.
One Of the chief wonders of this
wonderful new mill-,he mill $50
yards long aud on top Of a hill with
one engine or water power near it
are the Draper automatic looms, the
first of the kiud in the Snuth. Al!
they do is to automatrta shoot of
the empty bohbin and replace it. with
Il new one. This s,ves abnuL 40 per
cent Of the weavtrs time.
The dam for Mill No. 4 is at Hol-
lands shoals, two miles and half be-