The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-29
,hroe mills made shirtings etc., one made

| .hree mills made shirtings. etc., one made
| cotton yarns. aud one made cotton Tolls OILS
! There were eighteen mills In Kentucky.
The returns of the fourth census
| aS2o). which did not lnclude,any manu-
| factares Of a household cnaracteI. save
| Tho following figures Ut the splndes and
| tho amount Of cotton annually used IN
| Zach of the Southern States: "a
MARYLAND. 2o,aA5 spndles. cotton spun.
$40 400 hounds: Virginia, no spindles, cot
ion sn,,n, 5000 pounds; North Carolina.
as spindlcs. cotton spun. $4,000 ,pounds;
south Carolina 5SS spindles. cotton spun,
az. iie pounds Kentucky. s,0l9 sp1ndles,
cotton spun. a6o.951 pounds. Total
spindes. 29.2ls, and cotton spun l.sIl,-
400 hounds, or 1880 bales OF 284 pounds
each. .. 4,
cotton Industry in the South from 1880
to 1860. During the decade 1880 1870,
about AZ cotton mills we're constructed;
a. durinr the decade 1S4o-ls5o. and ten.
during the decade 1s50-ls6o,
Regarding the consumption OF cotton
II he"'various States, the article goes
much into detail, taking up the various
southern states specifically. Due credit
il given to South Carolina for having
originated the Manufacture OF cotton
goods In this country, and she is ACCORDED
first place among the States az the South
as a cotton manufacturing State.
Cotson in North Carolina.
North Carolina is rated as second among
the cotton consuming States OF ths
South. She was the third one TO en-
gage in the manufacture OF cotton, tue
first mill being located at the Fails OF
Tar (or Pamlico Riverl. in EdgecoHbe
county. in 1915. It began operating With
eqS spindles, employed % hands, and con-
sumed $4,000 pounds Of cotton. or, &C
cording to the weight of those days,
about Ga bales. Ten years later another
mill was built on the Catawba river, near
Lincolnton In 1929. or about that date.
a mill run by steam power was erected
at Greensboro. 1t operated 5000 splndles
and is looms. and made sheetings. shirt
fings, osnaburgs and yarns. The first OF
a number Of mills in Cumberland county
was erected at Fayetteville In 1885. The
following year a mill was built at Rock
ingham 1t was burned during the war
between the States, and rebuilt In 1870
4 mill at Cumberland and one on Ala
| nance creek, in Alamance county, were
| also erected in 1897 The latter, equipped
! with SIS spindles and Is looms. was
| founded by the late Governor Edwin M.
Holt and Is said to have been the first
mill South OF the Potomac TO manufac-
turc colored cotton goods. Besides the
above, the records show three other mills
in operation at this time--one at tMocRs-
vile, Davis county. and two In Alamance
county, one Of which was at HaW river,
and the other on Cane creek.
In 1898 the second mill was put IN
| operation at Fayetteville, and one at
| each of the following places: Wttten-
| berg Alexander county; Lexington, Davis
! county (steam power; High Fails. Orange
| county. Some time between 1885 and 1913
| four mills were erected in the vicinity
| of Fayetteville. The six mills operating
| in the vicinity Of this place were reckon
| ed to have cost s350OO0 Three Of these
! mills manufactured stout brown sheet
| ings, another osnahurgs, Weighing one
! half pound TO the yard, and the other
| two yarns only.
| A mill was butt at Spray In 1889, and
| in 1872 one was constructed at Cedar
| Falls. In addition to those enumerated,
| the following mills were in operation in
| 1874, though the year OF their erection Is
/ unknown; The Salem factory In Stokes
! county Steam power) and one at Frank
| linville, one at Salisbury, one at Concord.
| one at Milton. Caswell county, and one
| Mt Milledgcville, Montgomery county. 1t
t was estimated that the % mills In the
| State represented a capital of 3l050, 600,
operated 10000 spindlfs, employed 100
| to 800 hands and consumed $4,000 bales
| OF cotton.
In lS45 mill was erected at Haw
river, Alamance county and in lsia an
other was built OF the Yadkin river, at
!, Elkin. Surry county. In lS49 another was
erected at Saxapahaw Alamance coun-
ty. and also one at Salem Forsyth coun-
ty In 1850 there was mill erected AT
Ramseur; one at Wiardsville In 1852;
one at Mountain Island in 1856, and one
at Hope Mills In 1860.
Little Is known Of the consumption of
cotton In North Carolina prior 10 1870.
According TO the census returns for 1870