The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31
THEY RUN 1868, 1895 SPINDLES
DER DAY FOR 2SS DAYS IN
THE YEAR.
CONSUME ON AN AVERAGE
1909 BALES EVERY DAY
There Are Also is WooIen Mills in the State
With 5,O38 SpindIes and 234 Looms
Wool carding Mills Number 22--Ac-
cotding to I e Latest Returns
there Are 207 Gold Mines

CWQln8 10 LATEST hetu'hs
here Are 2O7 Gold Mines
in North Carolina.
T,he forthcoming report of Labor Com
missioner hamr.ck, in its chapter on
~Cotton Mills of North Carolina will
say:
"North Carolina is to-day one OF the
leading cotton manufacturing states Oh
the Unlon. SO rapidly mas sac advanced
In cotton manufacturing that to-day no
Southern STATE, save NorUn Carolha'
can show within 3UO,UOO sp.ndles or the
number that are located WITHIN the
mills OF this State.
"Erom returns received from the mills
OF this State we find that, based on the
first l15 mills heard from, there are
a per cent of our cotton mills running
at night From carefully compiled re-
turns We find also that the mills or the
State are consuming on an average each
9lU2-I15 bales of cotton per day. Inns
would make the daily consumption OF
our 1913 spinning mills 1,SO9 bales OF
per day; or 520,992 bales, weighing 4oO
pounds each, consumed in the mills OF
this State in 2SS days (the average time
In operatiOn.)
.snhe cotton crop in 1896 was 423,510
baies against 339, 400 in 1895, so that
at the rate at which our mills are now
running, we are consuming 6O,OOO mors
bales than we produce.
sour facilities for manufacturing are
great, for within our borders we have
sites suitable for mills located on water
courses, with an aggregate of 3,5OO,O0O
horse power, capable of running l4O,-
OOJ,OOO sp.ndles. Northern capital is
being rapidly attracted to the manu-
featuring possibilities Of this State, for
she offers to them, above all else, the
fields where the cotton is produced, thus
saving the cost of its transportation
from the fields where it is grown to
the Northern factories where 1t is man.
ufactured.
THE wages Of our cotton operatives
b much lower than the wages paid in
the mills OF the North, and while the
Northern States have passed laws reg
ulating the hours Of labor in the factory,
our State has let it rest on the same
basis as the laborer of the farm, the
mine and the forest.
"From a careful inquiry 1t appears
tildt We IidNe NOW Ill luS suite LID
mills engaged in the manufacture of
cotton, and divided as follows: 1873 cotton
mills (spinning or weaving) with 24.621
looms and 1.O16247 spindles: % hosiery
mills, with 1,410 knitting machines, and
dyeing and finishing mills. These
mills are located in 45 counties. They
employ 26,2S1 persons, consisting Of
S.44S men. 1906 women and 1868
oI1
power In the running of the mills"
These figures will be surprise to
many. even well informed North Caro-
hnians. who have not kept posted as to
the States industrial progress. Even so
high an authority as Henry G. Hester
secretary Of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange. in his report for September.
gives North Carolina only 161 mills,
with 21.406 looms and 904,11 spindles
consuming 258.923 bales OF cotton. Mr..
Hamrick yesterday wrote Mr.. Hester
letter correcting the mistake and Civ
ing him the figures above quoted.
TILE WOOLM MILLS.
Among other things, Mr.. Hamrick
will say in his chapter on wooden mills:
I'm 1870, according to the census ~
establishments were engaged in this
State in the manufacture OF wool and
these mills operated 2.806 spindles.
Since then there has been a dNcrease in
ounber and an increase in capacity.
I'm 1882 there were Is mills, running
III looms and 4,466 spindles. These
mills were located in ten counties.
There are now in the State 16 wool
en- mills. located in II western and mid
die counties, with 5.03S spindes and
"a looms. In addition to these I6
mills that spin or weave. there are 30
wool-carding mills. located in 13 conn
aes-a total Of SO mills engaged in the
manufacture of WOOL
GOLD MINING.
Several chanters in the report will he
devoted to mines and mining. Touching
the production Of gold in North Carolina,
the report will say:
According to the latest returns there
IRE 2OT gold mines in North Carolina.
Only between 30 and 40 are in opera
tion now. though others are being OPEN
ed M almost every day. OF those In
sper"fi"n twenty have deposited gold IT
We United States Assay office in Char
ioff". since Jann-rv 1st. They arr.
~ eonntfn~. Pc fnl,ows: NectIcrhurp-
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Rurfsc~ Pin. Rnwrr--Co'd H;u. Gold
Knob. md R"r-e. Starl"v-parkor. .nd
Tnk~. V'rt"r-ponoi~ polio ard v1o~.
Observation-Disclosures. md uoovor JJ;.,.
b0or~-A'f-"6. C"e+nu-Catswhe wine.
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rah,rrn~-Widenhons Cntawha-Sbn.
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