The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-02-15
The Peoples Journal.
PICkENS 8. 9.
SOUTH CAROLINA's MILLS.
INDUSTRY GROWS STEADILY IN
,.AslNYJG.IrHHOUND GREENVILLE.
The Owners Profits Are Large-Thc
Towns Shows Sign OF Improve
mcnt and Prosperity is Evident
on All Sides. =.

mcnt and Prosperity is Evident
on All Sides. " -
Special Cor. New York Times.
GREENVILLE, S. c., Jan. H.-Pros
perity could not have marked for
Carolina than Grecnvillc. The face Of
nature is fairer hero, possibly, than it
is at Spartanburg, q few miles east and
north, but also little further away
from the noble Blue Ridge that walls
Greenville to the north. Grccnvillc
is more advantageously placed than
Spartanburg for improvement, for Its
founders chose for site u plateau that
is without some OF the hill difficulties
that will count when Spartanburg
begins to raise taxes for street and
other municipal improvements that
are bound to como to both these thirty
ing places.
Grecnville is not less interesting a$
development Of the cotton manulac
turing industry in the South thar
COlum bia and Spartsnburg. 1t has not
as many spindlcs rs are to be found lr
Spartanburg County, but Gre 1nvitl'
County, OF which it is the Court HOus"
town, has more than Coumb bia, great
as the array "f spind!cs is In that busy
town. The County OF Grcenvlllc pos
scsscs at pclz2r, a strictly mill town
sixteen miles below Grccnvillc, on the
Southern hallway, the largest cotton
mill now in operation in the South. l.
is really ave mills, al running night
and day, with l0I 900 spindlcs and
$500 looms converting cotton into
cloth.
But Grcenvllc is entitled to claim
some inter st in pclHcr, although Il,
inn, Il a. II, / -
operation. The rivalrics in tho State
seem to be Of localities but everybody
whether here or there, Is ready to
claim every thing for South C2roliaH
when mention is made OF North Caro-
lima or Georgia, to which the South
Carolina enthusiast is apt to refer as
States somewhat behind the times in
cotton developments.
MILLS AROUND GRi:ENNILLE
Right IN GrccnvIl.c, 50 near that the
hum OF the machinery OF the csta5-
liShmcnt can be heard al Summer long.
is the first OF the mills sctup here. 1t il
the uugurnot, one Of four mills operas
ting here. Although more than three
years Old, its managers date it. impOr.
tancc from about thrcc years ago
Then it had 100 spindlcs and 80
looms. Now IL has !, 200 spindlcS and
US looms. 1t WcHvcS cOlOrcu goods,
cotton piaids, EinE hams, and ChcViOts,
the yarn being dyed ON the premises
anC the n"ttcrnE ueslgncd lor the com
pan. very attractiVc goods arc turn.
cu out' ana the uC"nNhd, Is good d"ai OF
1T Tor southern consumption, Keeps the
mill constantly going and the ware
houses empty. The "cavcs are more
ourabIc IN color Than prints, and arc
seen worn oy women IN ali the mills
hercaoout.
Jhst OUTSIDE the town. pHt not FAR
rom IT. business centre, Is the Poe
~ u'..' | i"', - 4. o''CN structure od''E
a settlement, ,,hnut !, nmI '.,,,,I',,,,',.
store, urnviIv s,nnkmd - W pI'
pointed out >hr fnn-urrs N tr. rn,r,.,,
in which ne took ,,rr;.t uriJM ~.
steam mill and IT, = ruuiunnt ,hro,',.'
out with electric lambs, 49, the force
is in ;wo shifts of onrr.,ors ,L,, vn,,,,
the machinery cmnl"rSI nirh, " "op oupp
duy. In order tn rive q Iav N rost ~
the opcrntivcs ihr ,,vo .r,s $50 ~ a.,
ploycd on SATURDAY. ,hnt, thnv T,,inL I'
before midnipht, The min - vnIu,I
at $l 900 600, but it j. runisnli,"d n,&
$50. 600, and the infrrenro thmt ,h"
plant, has brnn mndr n,, ~ ,h'' WV
ings OF the mill is not unly justified hn,
tells a remarkable story of the uroti,s
that have been made in South Earo)i
ma in cotton manufacturing.
There arc - 600 snindlrs and Eun
looms in opcratioo in the pnr Mill
The product is one unynrvjuu ounIiiv
of brown shcctinr. 'TLr nn ,r,,ti vn'
dwell IN rows nf ninin I'm, nr,f hni,I.
ings. arranged on town plan of lhrir
own, with the boundary fence iust nvrr
against the GrccnyiIlc limits Thcrr
were no infants cmplovcd umonr ,hc
spindles as aas the case in one Of the
Columbia mills visited.
prot,rrs ,p,, ,p,,
''''''>''''
,.uil ihe Two othor MUS ncnrcS! Green
t,i ,nto at ..Iosc " tnE Ni'is h"nuiac-
l ~, 'nG nGo Eo'np"ny, WIN ~o'ooo splndics
"nu CIV 'VU loolnS, "nu thc american SEin-
ninE -oS S1uir r"ny' "''n -o'ooo spindles
.H Gnu wv looms. I've NlAnaERiSn NJ III OF
1no sanIe n capacity as the American,
aiiu ai the i'r"ynooh ,"y Nllli with 10000 spin
W u,Is Is "nu iuo Iooins' ootn OF which are
~ oc lncrt"9eu IN capacity. are others
lnaI eaI up tne cotton OF Grconvil.c
1nu nr'Gh oorlhg counties. Between
GrcenVlllc and priHnr is the Pied
taonI Unn MILL Win % 700 spindlcs and
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