The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-30
A GROWING SECTION
MR. LANIHR TALKS OF EAST
 ALABAMA.
Largest Cotton 1Giil in the South ia Located in Chambers County. Many Other Industries
 Are There.

Mir. Lafayette Lanier of Lanett is a visitor to Montgomery. He Is Pres ident of several cotton mills, and other industries in East Alabama. and has been an important factor iaT the AsN
 opment of that section of tie, state.
 In an interview with repfesenta- tive of The Advertiser Mir. Lanier talked interestingly of the growth and prosperity of his section of the State.
 Tt is not generally known that Chambers County contains more cot ton spindles than any county in Ala bama.'' said MT. Lanier. The Lam ett Cotton Mill of Lanett, is the largest cotton mills in athe South. The main wide and four stories high. with 4,000 more feet of floor space than any mill in the South. The West Point Manu- featuring Company at Langdale, is ap- other mammoth cotton mill, and the Riverdale Cotton Mill at Riverview. contains 12,000. spindles. The last two mills are on the Chattahoochee River and partly in Georgia, but are oper- ated altogether from the Alabama side.
 "Lanett, the home of the Lanett cot- ton mills, is q town of 4,000 people, seven years old and the town boasts of seven churches a library, an opera house and school rooms accommodate ing 200 children.
 Iangdale, the home of the West Point Manufacturing Company. has a population of 1,50o people, churches, . library, an opera house, and school rooms accommodating. 150 children.
 These libraries. school rooms and opera houses, are institutions erected for the use of the operatives of thsse various cotton mills, where 2,500 are daily employed. Besides these schools, which are free to the children of the mills and the communities, these cor porations support kindergarten schools for the children from s to years of age and in great many ways these companies are affording the young of the county facilities for comforts as we'll as education.
 "Riverview. the location of the Riv- erdale Cotton Mills Is a f1ourishing town of about 1,o00 persons, with church and schools.
 The Lanett Dye Works at Lanett, is one of the South's prominent indus tries, dying and bleaching. as it does, from fifteen to twenty million yards of cloth annually which has heretofore been shipped to be converted, to New England bleacheries.
 The Chattahoochee Valley, Railway Company Is another Institution of greas importance with an average of two hundred thousand dollars of in- dustries on each side of it's road. This railway company has spurs and side- tracks to the Western Railway of Ala bama and the Atlanta4and West Point Railroad. to all of the warehouses in West Point and to the warehouses and coal bins of the Lanett Cotton Mills, the West Point Manufacturing Com pany. Lanett Bleachery and Dye Works and Riverdale Cotton Mills"
 The various enterprises spoken of by Mir. Lanier are under his general man. agement. He Is President of the La- nett Cotton Mills, West Point Mapu- featuring Company and Chattahoochee Valley. Railway Company. They rep resent two and . half million dollars and cost an average of two thousand dollars daily for labor to operate them. The cotton mills consume annually fif- ty thousand bales of cotton, producing a hundred million of yards of cloth an- nually.
 "The management is greatly inter- ested in the help of the companies" said Mir. Lanier, 'and a visit to them will cause a great change in the senti- ment of the good women of our South land. that are now being influenced by designing persons to look upon facto- ry villages as death traps, where the intellect and physical condition of the white children is being dwarfed These villages can boast of as. bright, intel ligent and moral citizenship as is found in the State"