The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-04
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
IECREAsE IN NUMBER OF SPIN-
 DIES AND LOOMS.
In July, August and September Plans Were Made to Increase South ern Textile Equipment at a
 Cost of $6,561 ,360.

Baltimore. Oct. 3.-(SpeciaD-During the third quarter of the year embracing July August and September, plans have been made to add to the Southern textile equip- ment s2s.06S spindles and S.51s looms, rep rescnting an investment of about s6,56l,- sso Figures compiled by The Manufac- turers' Record in this weeks issue show 172.12S spindles and AIS looms to be add- ed by twenty established companies and 155.940 spindles and 4,ss5 looms to be fn- stalled by thirteen new companies. Re- viewing the quarter The Manufacturers' Record says:
 '"The keynote of present progress seems to be the determination of Southern man. ufacturers to enter the field of fine-goods production. This tendsncy appears in an- nounced plans of mills for making the higher counts of yarns and fine cloth, two such projects being especially mo- ticeable. One of these Is the $2000,00o plant that the Messrs. Duke and their associates of Durham, N. C., and New York City will build at Dunn, N. c. IL will have 7o.00o spiniles and 5000 looms for the production of denins and cam- lets and about the plant will be estab- lished a modern mill town with every fs- cility for health and convenience. The second project is that of the Dan River Power and Manufacturing Company of Danville, Va, which will build $ooO,- 900 dam and power house on the Dan River near Danvills to operate plant of 5000 spndles and 2,4OO looms. It is the purpose to build first a mill of 4o,000 spindles and about 1.3os looms. to be fe!. lowed by the construction of a second mill of the same capacity and about s20o9,00o will be invested in the enter prise. This company Is closely allied with the Riverside Cotton Mills. $2.eoo.- 900 corporation operating 67.650 spindles and 2,s40 looms in the production of plaids, checks. stripes and sheetligs.
 Another step toward fine goods pro- luction has been taken fin the $2oo.oo0 fin- ishing plant of the Gaftney. GS, @ Man ufacturing Company now approaching completion. This addition will contain the equipment for bleaching and mercerizing yarns and piece goods, dyeing yarns. warps and piece goods, printing piece goods and for washing, soaping, tenter- ing. calendering and finishing cotton goods, and will enable the plant, which contains 67s4O spindles and 1,4oo looms to change from plaint print cloths to fancy double weaves, dress goods, waistngs, etc.
 "A most interesting fact about this tex tile progress is that a majority of the additions in spindleage are planned Tor the successful Southern cotton manufac- turers-men who are fully acquainted with, the resources of their section and base their decisions to increase their in- vestments upon an experience Of many active years in this industry"
 ut- %kz ant in fz South toward stock-raising and packing houses is a letter to The Manufacturers Record from Mfr. Charles J. Haden of Att lanta. who writes regarding the native grasses of Georgia and Florida:
 'I know that in the West the impress sion prevails that the native grasses of Georgia and Florida are not nutritious. but this Is a mistake. Nutritious is a relative term. It is possible that pound for pound the native grass of the Vest ern plains has more flesh-producing pow CT than an equal quantity of grass of tre pine lands, but there can be no reason- able doubt that acre for acre the con- verse Is true. Our Georgia and Florida grass grows taller and denser. For sixty years or more cattle and sheep have been successfully grown in South Geor- gia and Florida without other food at any time of the year than the indigenous grasses. Last week while in Clinch County, Ga., found the cattle were as sleek and fat as the best saw in my journey across the plains. The breed of South Georgia cattle Is small; so were the cattle in the early range days of the West. Tn the West they were bred up from a 6O0-pound average animal to a 1,00O-pound average, and the same can be done in the Southeast The fault Is in the grower. not in the grass. If fires are kept out of the forests for two con- secutive years or more the volume Of grass Is very greatly increased Wh 4n thus protected there appears a very val uable growth of evergreen shrubs, ex- cellent for grazing, and best of all, the wild oats, the finest of all wild grasses. When the white man first occupied South G sorgia he found the forests covered in wild oats. They were destroyed by an- nual forest fires and cannot be brought back within only one seasons freedom from fires.'