The news & observer., 1897-02-07
ABOUT GOT L ON
One Hundred ana rory"
Eight Mills.

Carolina to be among the greatest cotton
mountaineering sections of the world.
/ Eventually, print cloth mills, bleach
ing. dyeing and printing establishments
must be built in the State if we are to
reach the highest development IN cotton
manufacturing; but these establishments
require, comparatively speaking an
enormous outlay of permanent capltal
investment. This capital must be op-
tanned outside of the State or from capi-
tai yet to be made by the citizens OF the
State. Such mills can only be built by
corporations. few individuals belnS
wealthy enough to undertake such enter
,rises single-handed. II the legislation
of the State against corporations anu
against the manufacturing interests OF
the State does not develop too radical q
form. the establishment of those enter
prises may be hoped for in the not far
distant future.
Eastern cotton mills have had and are
still having hard time, and those when
come in competition with the recently
built mills of the South and with the
Southern product generally, have most
serious condition confronting them
Our new Southern mills, generally speak
ing. have been built with the newest and
most improved machinery and on the
latest and most improved plans, while
large number of New England mills are
antiquated in their machinery and
methods of manufacture. Until these
mills finally conclude to give up the
ghost of competition with the Southern
mills, and until the demand for fabrics
| in the United States reaches the present
enormous producing capacity of our old
mills and those rectnly built, all of US
are likely to have period in which
economy and hard work will be neces-
sary.
The piedmont region of the South, and
especially North Carolina, is the most
favored region of the country in which
| to locate cotton manufacturing enter
prises. Its mild and equable climate is
free from extreme cold which forces the
| New England mills to provide heat at
great cost and which is in other ways
drawback.
A school in the South providing a
scientific and technical education in cot
ton manufacturing is almost essential
! to the development of its cotton industry.
In the meantime those who have achiev-
ed success in that line and are interested
/ in the building up of their section should
aid their country by providing the pos
sibility of an education in the textile
schools of the North to those OF the
younger generation who are expected to
devote their energies to the cotton manu-
| featuring business. 1t would be very
advantageous if this education would
include study at English institutions Of
this sort, for when it comes to catering
to the export trade, we are not up to date
| in the use of starch and otherwise
cheapening the cost Of fabrics necessary
to compete in the markets of the world
with foreign manufacturers.
| There are to-day in North Carolina:
Forty-eight mills making colored and
brown goods capitalized at $7,697, 900;
having 1900 looms and 264, ,164 spin
dies; 80 mills making brown goods only,
capitalized at $3,447 900, having 4,407
looms and 1852 spindles; 20 yarn
mills with $5,042,O00 capital having
353, 1888 spindles.
This gives 14S mills in North Carolina
with total Of SIG, ,16S,0o0, 21,367 looms
and 79O,604 spindles, while we had IN
1890 only 81 mills capitalized at S1O,-
775,O34 with 1854 looms and 337, 1856
spindles; in 1880, 40 mills with l,790
looms and 92,3S5 spindles; in 1870, 33
mills with 61S looms and ,S97 spIndles.
I and in 1910 % mills with a capital of
S993, 1900.