The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
.anier, president; F. D. Sears. secreta-

Lanier, president; F. D. Sears, secreta- ry.
 The second mill is four miles down the road. It's corporate name Is the West Point Manufacturing Company. This is also an extensive industry. It demands each year 10000 bales of cot ton. In the old days the corporation which ran it was known as the Chatta- hoochee Manufacturing Company. The officers who head the company which now controls the mill are l.. I4anter president; and H. s. Sears. treasurer Some 700 people find employment in this mill. The town of Langdale has been established since 1888 and 1t has had time to grow into a shady and ih- vitlng place. A fine union church haS been put up here in which all denomi- nations worship.
 At Langdale one becomes for the first time greatly impressed with the possibilities of the water power or the ChattahoOchee. At this place the com pany has thrown great cement daih clear across the river, dam which Is more than 1.600 feet long. It cost some $50 900 to dam the river from bank to hank. but it gives the mill an unlimited water power. The dam affords l4- foot fall The pent up water is forced around into d small channel or arm from which the mill is fed by turbine wheels and shaftings.
 Natural Water Power.
 This arrangement is of vital import ance to the mill at Rivcrdalc, two miles below. For the Riverdale mill Is fed by the same water which gave power to the Langiialc mill and which goes down through q continuation of that same channel This channel makes q big island in the river, an island prob ably 100 yards across
 This is the best water power mat can be had" said MT. Lanicr. alludinS to the channel from the LAnSdalc to the Riverdalr mill ''The water could come down in no better way. YOU see the danger from overflow is removed and there is no driftwOod or trash to l come down to the lower mill Al the Riverdale Mill II was necessary only to dam the channel
 At Langdale an important engineer | ing enterprise is even now under way | It is the turning of the course ot large creek from one part of the town 1 to another. When the cement dam 1 was built it raised the water of the | river so high that a creek which ran | between two of the mill buildings Was backed up until it's waters stood upon | some of the streets of the town. lha | creek is being turned so that its vol ume of water will pour into the river ! | this a channel 1,l00 feet long is hcmS
 cut. and in some places cut of twen- | ty-tivc feet deep is required. Ine un- l dertaking has demanded the Gestruc- | ton of four or five houses.
 Special attention at Llangdale was
 called by President Thach to ne|
 feeding machine recently installed. It | supplies with one mans labor the %h-
 tire mill with material Some sixty
 or seventy bales of loose cotton lro 1 handled daily by the new machine and
 sent tO the pickrrs by new method
 that almost absolutely cleans 1t, There
 are rot more than two or three of
 these machines in the South was ] told.
 The last mill along the line was at l Rivcrdalc, d mill that has been in con tmuous operation since 1888. Each
 year this mill eats up 1000 bales Ht
 cotton and gives employment to 35o people This mill is called the River
 dale cotton mill and its officers are L.
 Ianier. President. and II. r. Scars. | Treasurer.
 "These are the machines that take
 III the cotton mill mans money" said | Mir Lanier, indicating q fine nickel | plated carder. These are the most
 modern and the best machines on the