The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-01-02

their thread in East Tennessee for tla>
thread. They sold flax thread to the
shoe makers and had a large amount
woven In the country looms, paying q
skein of cotton thread for weaving 9
yard of cloth. Pelham, Mr.. Editor, il
about sixty yards inside tho Green
vile limo.
When Mr.. Hutchings sold his factory
on Enoree he built another at u pace
now called Batesville, on a large creek
u short distance from what is now
Batesville. He was running that
factory in 1888. The precise timo he
sold 1T, L do not know, but he was
running another at Il place now called
Arlington in 1897. In this factor,
Simpson Bobo and d. w. Moore were
concerned in some way. Most of the
capital that built the factory belonged
TO tnusa mcn. a lawsuit in equity
resulted in Mr.. Hutchings losing his
case AID tne factory in some way fell
into ID. w. MOore's hands. Mr.. Hutch
ings then quito tho factory business
and went to preaching in Charleston
and Savan"~'. with great success. |
knew IF h,- paying some Of his former
debts with money he received for
preaciing At these places.
Not far frn,u 1887 Mr.. Vardry McBce
lar {, "Jn CIR. aville. This WAS u brick
building and was tho best house that
had pIen put up for cotton factories in
the State. 1 think it was about 1887
that DR.. Bivings came to Spartanburg
and originated what was thcn called
Blv ing5ville. That was tho most eX-
tcnslve enterprise in the manufacture
of cotton tnuL had been originated in
the State. From some cause Il lawsuit
sprung up, much to the injury OF all
parties concern in it. Some time
about 46 or At DR.. Bivings came to
Middle Tiger and built factory, then
called Charlottesville, now cuied Far.
mont and operated it to the cnd of the
Confederate war. At what time Valley
Falls commenced business, | do not
know it was running during the war.
Simpson ~ Downs once had IL factory
on Rabun's creek, Laurons County.
1t was said that 1t was not /. financial
SUCCESS. | believe that it was burned
They were both lawyers. Both were
afterwards candidates for Congress-
Simpson succeeded; Downs failed.
There was once small factory on Il
prong OF Rocdy River, in Greenville
County. "A man by the name of Berry
was concerned in it. | saw small
factory on big creek two or three
UClO" Olu L CuulCGO0.
1t is we'll know that there was q
J large cotton factory near Columbia. on
Saluda river, several years before the
Confoderat war. Nicholas Vicclu Van.
Patton, after going three times to
England purchasing machinery for
| parties at the North, came to what
| was then known as Cantrell's shoals
on Enoree and put up a cotton factory.
VanPatton was said to be the best
mechanic in the world. After short
time he piled up his machinery and
went to work the third of q century
trying to establish perpetual motion
spending thousands of dollars without
success.
There are few places, Mr.. Editor, sc
we'll adapted to manufacturing pur.
poses as Cantrelps, or VanPatton
shoals. The entire fall is said to be
fifty feet. The river approaches the
| fall in horse shoe shape making q
| peninsula Of fifteen or twenty acres.
BY making solid dam, the peninsula
could be made a water reservoir " hich,
by tunneling on both sides of the
river tapping the reservoir, two addl-
tional falls could be secured. BY max
ing the dam high enough to catch the
night and Sunday flow of water six
factories, each as large as Pelham,
could be operated.
Vaucluse, in Edgefeld County, has
been Il cotton manufacturing establish
ment for more than half century.
believe it is the only concern in this
State that ever was attempted to be
operated by slave or negro labor. The
experiment signally failed. The
negroes robbed the factory and burnt
it, or attempted to burn it and were
hanged. When q Northern member
of Congress told McDuific to build Il
factory, PET his negroes to work in it
and get tlc benefit of Il protective
taritf, nc rer;ed by relating the Vau-
ciuso matLur and showed that the
thtcv,sh and treacherous character Of
tho negroes made them unfit for manu-.
featuring Purposes.
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