The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-14
Southern Cotton Mills.

\ special from Baltimore to the Co
lumba State says:
The South has entered upon period
of cotton mill building which bids fair
to continue unintelruptedly for many
years to come. While the Organization
be as active as at present, yet the in
dustry is now on such solid fOuntla-
tiOn, and is commanding such wide at
tcntiOn OH the part Of outside rs well
as local capital, that the future pre-
eminent position of the Southern States
as the cotton manufacturing centre,
not only of this country, but doubtless
assured fact In view of TIT progress
already made, and of the success which
has attended the development of the
textile interests Of the South, il seems
reasonably safe to calculate that the
building of new mills and the cnlarger
ment OF established plants will add an
average of 1900, 900 to 1000, 900 spin dies
year to the South for the next few
years, and after that still greater in
ty has been estimated that the aggre-
gate addition of spindles during the
next ten years will be ut least 90, 600, 600,
which, added to the 5,774,381 spindles
now in the South, will give n total of
%, ~, 1851 spindles ten years hence.
So long as the South, which is the ac-
knOwledged natural situation for cot
find market outside of it's own bor-
dcrs for a large proportion of it's cotton
crop, so long will there be nroftn hle
openings in the South for the estab-
lishnent of cotton mills. In round
figures, there are about 100, ,O00, ,03O spin
dies in the world. The South furnishes
about three -fourths of the worlds cot
ton supply, or sufficient, say. expressed
worlds spindles. Even at the rate @ Of
adding 10000 600 spindles year. which
would mean 100 mills with an average
of 10000 spindles, it would take more
than 80 years for the South to reach
the point where it would consume its
present cotton crop, and by that time
the world will be demanding of the
South not simply 10, 600. 900 bales of cot
10000, 900 bales. The field, therefore,
for expansion Of the cotton mill indus
try is practically unlimited go far as
the South is concerned. With due care
in the organization of mills that abun-
dance Of capital and the best manage
ment ehnll be secured and good loca-
tions selected, tho cotton mill business
fields for investment which the world
can present.
The Manufactures Record by direct
correspondence has secnred from the
cotton mills of the South the number of
spindIes and looms in each, from the
mills already, in operation and those
actually under construction. The
growth of this business since 1890 is in
indicated by the following table:
June 1, 1890-Mills24; spindles /, 49,
030; looms 80. 231.
Dec. 1, 1so2-Mills a7a: snin.l!es Q s5s, csc
256; looms 55,64O.
Dec..1, 1897 Mills 4s3; spindles 4,1O5,-
067; looms 1O3, 1903.
Feb. 1. 19o0--Mills 542; spindles 5.774,-
38i; looms 147, 7,728.
The list includes all the cotton spin
ming and weaving mills. but not the
knitting mills. It may be wcli, hoT;-
ever, to add that in the latter depart
ment of textile manufacture there has
been n decided forward movement in
1890. According to the list as carefully
complied by the Manufacturers's Re-
cord there are now. 73 new mills actual
ly under consideration. These will be
equipped with o total of 748,84O spin
dies and 1880 looms.