The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-05
F. NJ. fARR, President.
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OUTR'S GROWTH IS REMARKABLE. 8
treat Record In Year. while South t
Carolina has Not Built So Many Mills n
It Is we'll Abreast Of the Other g
States. =
Washington, Dec. 80. During /
he past year there was invested is
n the South IN cotton mills and tt
'elated industries the sum of Il
'1,O73, $50. These plants in ii
,luded cotton mills, cotton ware Y
houses, seed oil mills, knitting c
Mills, hosiery establishments, a
etc, In 1904 the il
was $12, 953, 500; in 7
1903, $40, 1926, 100, and in 1902, p
S7,514,8 making a total for p
he four years of $50, 1868. 900.
This was still further emphasized
'hen results are measured by
wl.cou1mber of spindles which
the nT>at investment has put in G
this grey Acities and mill towns }
motion in "''.2ll sections of the
throughout G~aarea of the south.
cotton growing ;. tu~;;;ssp zen of spindles a
With the addithulC"v l, 1905, :.
installed since 'wJanua.1 yearly i
on which datem$ the laser this (
record Of mill ry equipment fsare I
territory wao4s closed, there's a
IN IN prenltsent time 6,77S, IS
r r thnn tlhMn en} esnp}lnesn~Eies 28 per cent o.
t States almost in the the 1!t;t5f 1c!otto5if
: fields themselves.
n There are 800 establishment!
S in the South which consume!
: raw cotton. This number, in
e cludes spinning mills and those
o establishments which use raw
: cotton in the manufacture O.
e mattresses, batting, felt, etc.
i From the last census bureal
report, it was found that there
N were in the south, $685., 303 &C
tive and idle spindles; in tn,
north, Is, 328,0O0, and the tota
: number Of spindles compiled
e from these two sources is "a, ,010,
s 1893.
: The cotton consumption of tn
II southern mills amounts to 49,
e per cent of the entire American
g production. Not counting Vir
Y ginia. which secures PRACTICAL.
II all of it's supplies from othe
e states, North Carolina leads il
l. the per cent of production con
q sumed, showing 1874 per cen
a compared with 51.4 per cent fo
4, South Carolina. and 23.9 per cen
ID in Georgia. The consumption Q
s. mills in the two Carolina
4 amounts to 56.8 per cent of tina
IS of the southern states. For th
te country, Massachusetts, rank
e, first and South Carolina secon
at in consumption, although tn
rn combined consumption of tn
IL two Carolinas exceeds that c
or Massachusetts by 170,S44 bales
a The census report referred
at states that in twenty-five yeal
y the cotton production of tt
IN United States has increased fro
5,755, ,359 to 13, ,693 ,279 bales. ]
ea the same period the total CO..
en- sumption of cotton in this cou1
ny try has increased from 1,67l, IS
10 to 4,378, $50 bales. Within tt
Eel last five years the cotton Co
ne suming establishments of Il
southern states have increas,
ed their consumption from 1, ,483, z
ay to 2,140. Isl bales, an increase
"a, $50, 440 bales. During the sar
ou time the northern consumil
,qr establishments have decreas
lie their consumption by 16,9
bales. This is explained by t
asH,;; fact that these mills have be
:. engaged during this period
c IL replacing old machinery by til
30 which is more modern, thus
a creasing the efficiency of tn
plants and the fineness of
yarns spun without making We
ate large increase in the number
It's. spindles.
for In 1880 the southern mills CT
her tanned 542,0 spindles, and c.
as sumed 1888, ,453 bales of cote
his For the year ending Decent