Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-06

rost universal throughout the south 4
century ago. says the Boston Tran
script.
Shortly after the revolution Thomas
Jefferson at his Monticello home in
Virginia. operated two spinnig jen-
MES, carding machine and loom
with flying shuttle He made annually
about 1000 yards Of cotton cloth.
This was the amount of cotton goods
his family and servants, in all 400 per-
sous. required. His plantation around
Charlottesville embraced 1900 acres,
and he owned immense tracts of land
elsewhere in Virginia.
The four southernmost states,
Manufacture a good deal of cotton.
The poor are almost entirely clothed
with It in winter and summer. In
winter they wear shirts of il. and out
CT clothing of cotton and wool mixed.
Ia summer their shirts are linen, but
the outer clothing cotton. The dress
OF the women is almost entirely OF {.
cotton, manufactured by themselves.
Many of the richer class also wear
hcmespun cotton. find it as we'll
made as the calicoes Of Europe.
There was a cotton mill in South
Carolina as early as 1890. 1t was run
by water power and had spinning.
cardins and other machines. also spin
ming machines with eighty spindies
each
r. W. Allison of Concord, N. c., a
the age Of 80 years says: When |
was boy yarns were spun and cloth
woven for home consumption at
large number of plantations. In this
state cloth Of very good quality was
woven in small quantities. There
were cotton mills in the south. how
yer, where looms and spindles We're
run by water power century ago.
was one of the original directors OF
the Concord cotton mills erected in
1929
The cotton manufacturing industry
was introduced in NorthCarolina and
Georgia about the same time the mrs
mill in the former state was built IN
the historic village of Lincolnton IN
1915. It began opera tions that year
with seventy-f1ve spindles. The iron
shafts were made by local black
smith and the spools and WOODWORK
by the village carpenter. The factory
was building 25 feet square. The
spinning was done by a mule. Ihe
warm was reeled and found ready sale
at so cents a pound in specie.
The founder OF this enterprise wao
Micheal Schweuck. who moved to
North Carolina with the early German
emigration from Pennsylvania. ms
mill did a prosperous business, and III
1918 he sent 10 Providence, r. L.. Tor
improved machinery. IN partnership
with Col. John Hoke, grandfather ol
General fIoke of Raleign. he erected
large factory, which continued opera
tons for more than half century.
Now ther are number OF mills on the
same stream that furnished the mo-
3;ve mower for the original nearly
century ago.
Small factories We're built in oiher
sections of the state soon after the
erection of the Schwenck mill. 7ihere
was an early mill erected in Randolph
county, North Carolina. In order 10
make the business a success, the OWL
ers of this mill employed George
Makeniece of Massachusetts, as super
;ntendent. He was the first New Eng
land man to go south 10 run a cotton
mill. The town of Franklinville. where
Makepiece did his pioneer WORK, no"
has several cotton mills.
A local paper commenting upon the
Influence of Mr.. Makepiece SAID;
"The fine tone of morality when
nervadas this manufacturing town Is
due to the efforts and example ot TINS
good man. whose every thought Was
for the benefit of the company ana 'he
welfare of the operatives.
The same statement can no" w
,,aaa of mill owners and superlntehd-
ents in many southern towns.
There were cotton mills operated
al Cedar Falls and FayetteVli'e' N.
c. at an early date, but the factory
ttat awakened the most interest III
tba south early in the present century
was the Mount Hecla s'ea"' 'o''o''
mills, erected at Greensboro n - III
1899 This fourishins city, now oi'o