The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-05-17
THE MONTGOMERYS
IN GAINESVILLE.
SWHATSTHBY HAVE DONE FOR A LIT
i!!s. III .tfTLRSGEORGIA TOWN.
The Etory$of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Enter
5ssS prise and Energy Has anu Can Ac-
SSt complish In tho New South
j}9tl Si@SEsfSS& Good Record.

s Good Record.
!. Nlorann in Atlanta Constitution
Gainesville, on route through Geor-
& gia-A payroll for $5S0,000 O year
Il for special industries is tho reason
why Gainesville is moving 80 rapid
3$ly toward the front.
A riseiof population from $500 in
June Of 1900 to 1920 in Decomber
1901, is}a record strong enough to
make the city run out her flag in q
spasm Of wild Mysteries.
Gan another city in tho State,
large or small, show like recordp
IT will be noticed that this increased
population Of December, 1901, is
treated as present for tho very good
reason that one cotton mill of 50,-
SOC0 sspindles is now being filed with
achinery for the fall business, while
other25,000 spindles is we'll under
y,and will be ready for the work.
sthe entire $500 population pres
,nSSin& June of last year is at work,
the8forceo Of tho now mill'must be re-
oruited from abroad. These two
mills will start off with 1900 en-
pisyees, and counting two depend
entssfor each, the addition will be s.
,O0..3$fsThis will make a total popula-
'nofI1,22O.
te story Of this wonderful lift for
mountain city Is a most interest,"
- one. The Pacolet Manufacture
ycompany, of South Carolina, hav-
built up q large business, paid
4yy dividends and set aside large
surplus, was at a loss as to what to
do With$the letter. The directory in
clined to the erection Of an addition
so3theSexisting plants and President
sMontgomery was about to yield to
their views, when intervention
came!
SIt was from the young son of the
spresident, Mr.. ,tor Montgomery.
S II had been thinking over the cot
stpn situation for long time," said
8he, "and had formed some ideas Of
my own. The Pacolet mills as they
gstood manufactured all the cotton
ideally grown, and was forced to re-
Splenish with shipments from abroad.
sTo build another mill there only
3gmeant an increase of shipments to
that poinS, and the question naturally
aayose: Since we have to get cotton
by shipment, why not cut off some of
the freight rate by moving nearer in
StoSthe unoccupied cotton fieldP What
was true of cotton supply was equally
true of the labor market If you will
383look at the map you will see that the
North and South Carolina manufac-
Curing districts, so congested, make
great demands on labor, while the
labor market back to tho Tennessee
line between Atlanta and Gainesville
sSis practically as untouched as is the
cotton to the South. Somewhere in
this region then, whore there is local
s&deligery, cotton and waiting labor
market, is the scene for the SUCCESS
fnl cotton operation for the future.
Still further considering the question,
other views arose. The capital of
sc1tton operative and his ability for
Gontinuous work He must have
Sbtacing air,pure wator and invigora-
ting surroundings This calls him
from lowland belts to the foothills of
B hsmountain territory. Higher up
sin the mountains, bad roads, impossi-
@sbility Of noighborhood and fertility
Sconditiono force people down to the
4 Sfoothi]ls, that central ground upon
both GLASSES meot.
But a convincing commercial ar
gnment 1 found in tho freight rate"
Swenbon Mr.. Montgomery, nodestly.
took the rate sheets and demon
Ssstrated that under existing tariffs,
shipping the cotton from tho points
With which we were trading, that the
iffsrence, as against Pacolet, was
{ s$S80 900 or an assured 8 per cent up
iDn tbs million dollars we were about
4 spend. felt doubt in urging
Judgement against that of my
ashsr,but when he saw the figures
ac6spted them, and the directory
Ito build at Gainesville.