The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-10-12


The New York Journal of Com
merce gives an interesting account
of the Southern cotton manufActur
ing industry for September. 1t says
that the activity displayed during
that month far exceeded that of An
gust, The spindles for Septe mber
number about 223 900 and the looms
about s. 900. The Journal estimates
that the amount required to install
this machinery ready for operation
will be about $4,000. 900. Besides
this it says that there were about
doz IN companies formally organized
with capital subscribed that did not
state what equipments would be. The
capital of these companies aggre-
gate 81, 975, 900. Then follows q list,
moro than q column in length, of the
various new cotton mills in contem-
plation, tho largest of which is a
million dollar factory at Gastonia,
N. C. It is also said that several rep
resentatives of New England COM
panies who were investigating in the
South for eligible branch factories
during the summer, have returned
home, and one of them, at least has
the directors considering the invest
ment of a large sum of money in a
Southern plant.
The G. o. industry in the South
is growing with wonderful rapidlty,
and it is the opinion of some that the
large number of new cotton mills in
this section, making of course
a more active demand for raw cot.
ton, have helped to increase the price
of the raw material. But the mos,
interesting thing to US about the ar
ticle in the Journal of Commerce is
that the machinery for these new
cotton mills and enlareements comes
mainly from New England. Tht
spiniles, looms, card,ng machines
ETC., come entirely FROM New Eng
land, while the boilers, engines, wa
ter wheels, and other supplem sntar,
apparatus of divers kinds are fur
nished by all sections. 1t is furthe
stated that the New England ma
chiuery workers continue to worker
ira time to enable them to fill thei
contracts, and within the past weel
| it has become known that a decided
increase in the price of cotton mill
ing machinery is pending early an
nouncement.
1t will be seen that we are still de
pending on New England for manu-
featured articles. A little while ag
we were buying all Our cotton good
from New England. We picked cot
ton from the fields. ginned and bale'
it, sent it to New England, and ha'
it returned to US in the form of cot
ton cloths. But by and by We dis
covered that we could manufactur
> this cotton at our own doors, an
when the Southern mills fairly go
into operation, the New EngIan
mills in some instances were force,
to shut down, because they could nc
!, stand the competition. But now tina
we have learned how to build an
operate cotton factories in our ow
territory we are sending to Ne,
England for our machinery, al
though Birmingham is now the iro
center OF the world. We cannot d
everything in day, but we ar
learning great and valuable lessons
We have learned how to manufac,
ure cotton goods. We have learne
how to make pig iron and steel i
competition with the world, and b
and by We shall have learned ho'
to manufacture all sorts of machlr
erv. The time is nor distant whe
the cotton industry will be pract
cally confined to the South, an
when the machinery for these fact,
ries will be. manufactured at hom'