Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-21
FACTORIES START UP.
The Large Cotton-Ni||s in Man.
chsstsTtO Resume Operations,
WORK FOR SIX HUNDRED,
The Two Plants Will GiVs Employment
10 This Humber Of People.
WILL BIZ CONDUCTED JOINTLY.
The Marshall Mills Branch ':yfll
start I'D Next Week and the Old
Dominion as soon as the Machinery
in Gotten In.
in Gotten In.

The two large cotton factories In Man.
chester-the Marshall Mills. which have
been idle for eighteen months. and the
Old Dominion Mills which have not been
at work since the fire OF five or more
years ago-will both resume operations in
the near future.
The former will. according to present
arrangements, start up the latter part OF
next week, and the latter will begin worio
as soon as the new buildings can be pro-
perly equipped. which Will consume about
two months time
The consolidated plant will be known
as the United Cotton Mills" They viii
be run by New York and Richmond capi-
tai, and it can be stated on unquostioncd
authority that the gentlemen holding
| stock have plenty OF men to put them in
running shape and conduct them In a way
that will enable them TO meet the COM
| petition of any plant In the country.
The Marshall mills branch which will
begin work Thursday or Friday of next
week, has been feitted with new and
thoroughly modern machinery, where
new machinery was necessary. This
plant will manufacture plain cloth. which
will find its market in China. II win be
manufactured solely indeed, for tho
China trade. All the shipments. however.
will be first to New York, and there dis
trbuted.
OPERATIVES AND OUTPUT.
The opening of these plants means that
coo men will find employment at them at
good wages. This Is a great thing for
any community, and in this instance VIII
bring to Manchester and Richmond many
OF her former residents who, when the
mills closed down, were forced To leave
for other places. separating them from
their families in many cases, where the
families could not go with them. Some
did not succeed in getting work at the
Loom" at allAand had 10 seek something
else. for which they had Httle taste and
little fitness. Many are at the mills at
Reidsvlle and Roanoke Rapids. n. G.
The capacity of both mills will be about
I 10000 pounds. or Ace bales. per year.
: | The manufacturing product. then, OF the
twin cities will be increased by quar-
ter of million dollars.
Is NOT A VENTURE.
There are many reasons why this In
vestment OF northern and home capital y
"a these plants is not venture. In the mrs
place. on account of the contract betwee
> the Chesapeake and Ohio RailWay Com
many and the city of Manchester, th
% owners OF the mills will not have any cit
: tax 10 pay. They have only 20 pay IN
\ state tax, which is 40 cents on the So
g There are not 1--WE days scarcely in n
{ year that these mills have not the water
I poyer to run. They are very slight
D affected either by nigh or low water
q The supply furnished by the James
: both plants is about 800 horse-powei
Again. Richmond has an all-water con-
: petition for shipment 10 New YORK. an
I thus has the advantage over any cit
9 situated away from the seaboar6. An
lastly. there IS no lack here Of skiIlc
operatives.
J. These mills have a history whtc
reaches back fifty years The Marsha
and Old Dominion mills are know
throughout the country. Recently the o.
3 Dominion plant became known as II
= Richmond Cotton Mils.
U Both have done n great deal or worl
,; The buildings Of the Old Dominion Con
T. pany were burned a little over nve yea
= ago. and though rebuilt at once ana mat
u more extensive and better than ever, tn'
- were never stocked with machinery or pl
in operation again. The Marshall MI
/ went into the hands Of receiver ano
!, eighteen months ago and shut down. Ih'
begin now a new history ana ne
- life Of activity, which will add much
the manufacturing Importance or Ric
mond and Manchester ana be Verltat
blessing 10 the community about them