The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-12-10
South Cardinals Cotton Mills.

The cotton mill industry for tho
State of South Carolina represents, up
to this date, an investment of capital
amounting to S40,5T,929, in exact
figures OF this amount $3,8SO,00O rep
resents IS new mills that have been
established during the year 1909, and
Of these, five have been established in
Anderson County, and represent a
capitalization of S9,0,0OO. just about
! one fourth of the amount invested this
year III the cotton mill industry in this
State
IT may not be Il remarkable fact, but
IT Is one worthy of note, that every cot
ton mill but two projected in the State
during the year 1902 are to be located
III the up-conntry, and all but six of
them within Il radius ct 10 miles of An
dcrsOn.
The cotton mills established during
this year, with their capitalization, is,
to date, as follows:
Brogon Cotton Mill, Anderson. $500
0tO; ChiquOla Manufacturing Company.
Anderson, :2nO,O0O; il. e.. Townsend
Cotton Mill. Anderson. So. 900; Corona
Mills. Anderson. S2o,Doo; T"xuw"y
NILS, Anhrrson, $.s5,o9o; Wondsidc
Ninety Six Cotton MilI, Nlnciy-Six,
5000 Lydia Cotton Mills. Clinton,
SGO.000; Wares Shoals Manufacturing
Company, l.aurens County, S500,O0O
Apalache Mill. Spartanburg Cornty;
S350.0o0; Bevingsvilc Cotton Mill,
Smrtanburg County, 500. 900; Drayton
Mills, Spnrtanburg, S25O,0OO; Tiger
Cotton e m Mil, Spaltanburg, 100000;
Grcenvillc. 100000; Greenwood Mills,
Easlcy, $2O0.GOG; Broad River Mills,
ltichland, 100000; Arcadia Mills,
Spartanburg, $200,OO0; Marlboro Cot
ton Mills, Mccall, 4l,000,000. Total,
S3.SS0,O00
Only one other year in the history of
the State exceeds tho present year in
year 1900, when $5,4l0,OOO was tho CAPT
.al invested for the year
Ut the S40,577,027 invested in tho cot
ton mill industry in the State, Ander-
son contributes (%S,0OO, ,000) eight mil
lions OF dollars, nearly One-iifth Of tho
entire amount, and this development
has taken place within the last thir-
teen years, or since 1889, when the An
dcrsOn Cotton Mills were built When
to this is added S350,00O invested in
cotton seed mills and fertilizer indus
try, .S550,000 in electrical plant, includ-
ing lights and water works, and $780,
O0O IN the sewerage system just COM
pleted, to say nothing OF tho many
small industries of the city, Anderson
is Mt once seen to occupy q proud posi-
tiOn in industrial developments; and yet
every one acquainted with the resources
OF Anderson does not doubt for mo-
ment that what has been accomplished
is but n beginning of what ls to follow.
The cotton mill industry is rapidly
moving from the East to the cotton
fields OF the South. This is as natural
as that night must follow day. Cheap
ness of manufacture can best be nt-
tanned In those sections where co:toii
is grown. The New England mills
cannot continue to compete with South
crn mills with the item of freight en-
tering into the cost of raw material.
and those sections Of the South pos
sessing greatest natural resources are
the sections in which this industry will
Locate. Electrical power. as has been
clearly demonstrated, is the great GiS-
eideratum, and in this par ticulnr An
dersOn has a decided advantage. Lying
quite near tho city and within tho bOr-
ders OF tho County, are resources, easy
OF development, which will furnish 3d.
600 electrical horse power, enough to
run twenty five mills of 90. 900 spindles
each. The development of this great
resC2rce Is now under advisement by
those who can readily command all the
money needed for the purpose, and the
beginning of this work will be the be-
ginning OF an era OF prosperity and
rapid growth of population no part OF
the State has ever seen.