The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30

II Was the DE, eiopment Of water Power
Into Electric Power That Gave 60.
Iunbia Her Chance--E, erythinS Is
Run by the Dynamo Thcrr-A Marvel.
Ious Town Growing ~ Around the
Stately Palmetto Capitol-The Gen.
Jus Of One lounG Man Richly Re-
warded Columbia soon TO BE a steam.
boat Port Real Estate Values Booming
COLUMBIA, = C., Nov. 20 Not long ago
reprcseItati Of the lcadir & cotton manu-
featuring II terests Of Massa chusctts, Rhode
Island AID Manchester, frglUId, came
here to Columbia for the purToSe Of study
ing the latest ard lest devices for the con-
version Of water power into electric clergy
and the application Of that ciergy Ia the
machinery of cotton mills Even Tore
recently, only a few DAYS ago, in fact
still another committee came 10 Columbia
from Kansas City. They proJCsc to go
into the cotton-manufaoturing business
out there
The cotton fields ha We been rapidly creep
Ing northward from Texas through Okla
homa and toward the great metropolis
Of western Missouri ard eastern Kansas
They Use a prodi9ious amount of cotton
cloth in Kansas City. II - estimated
that it takes hundreds Of thousands Of
yarGs a day to wrap up the meat that il
sent out by the great packing houses alone
All this vast amount of cloth is practically
ruined when Used ruined ard thrown
away The stock has To be replenished
constantly
so these Karsas CITY gentlemen, with
cotton fields creeping up to their very
doors. grasped the fact that it was ron
sense for them to send away for all this
enormous quantity of cotton cloth when
they could make il themselves right al
home They determined 10 build cotton-
manufact uring plant in kar sas City hat
would represent an investment Of $40, OOO.-
900. and the place they came TO in search
of Information the place where they
krew they would see the finest and largest
cotton mill under one roof in all the world
was Columbia, s. &.
TEACHING The DOCTORS.
In other WORDS, there is presented in
these two incidents Of recent date, the
signif, ant spectacle. on the one hard,
of experts from cd England and from
New England, from localities ripe with
the experience of more than century
of cotton manufacturing, coming in the
capacity Of students of their own business
to "A city which less than ten years ago
was a name unknown in the cotton manu-
featuring world ard, on the other hand
OF men WITH vast capital coming to the
same source for Instruction in the latest
and most advanced ideas in the industry
In which they proposed to invest that
capital
Eight years ago Columbia was a place
Whose name was not TO lie found on the
cotton manufacturing map Of the world
To-day those who rank a. learned in the
business in the greatest centres of the in
dustry elsewhere. come here as to a sort 81
post graduate cotton manufacturing uni
verisity to put the finishing touches on their
education.
THR FINEST COTTON MILL
The peerless Olympia cotton mill, which
has been in operation here for two or three
year, and was built from the designs of
South Carolina man, Mr. Whaley, for
merly Of Charleston, il now admitted
both in Old and in New England. to be
beyond all comparison the best and most
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It's moor area on between nine and ten acres,
" Is the largest mn now IN operation
under one roof But it is not so much
THIS TACT OF siz" that Is consi dered by
the experts as IN the perfection Of ar
rangement, the distribution of light the
thoroughness with which every problem
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and grouping of machinery has been
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