The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-19
A BIG COTTON MILL
MAMMOTH ENTERPRISE IN CHAT
 TAHO0CHEE VALLEY.
When Completed, Lanier Interests Will Consume 75,0O0 Bales of Cotton Annually New Town
 Planned.

West Point, Ga. June 1S.-(SpeciaD. -L. Lanier President of the Lanett l Cotton Mills. the West Point Manu-
 featuring Company the Riverdale Cot tom Mills and the Chattahoochee Rail
 way, announced today the awarding i of a contract for the erection of the
 building for the mammoth new mill
 to be built by the West Point Manufac-
 turing Company on the Chattahoochee
 Valley Railway. about half way be- tween West Point Ga, and Langdale, | Ala.
 l The purchase of machinery for this
 mill was made by Mir. Lan1er, last | February, to be delivered in November, and when 1t was bought 1t was the in-
 tention of the West Point Manufac-
 turing Company to extend it's present
 already large mill at l.angdale. Until
 recently this was the intention of the i Company. but these plans have been changed, and last Thursday new To-
 cation was selected and q contract
 closed for the erection of the main | building and warehouses Tor an entire- | ly new mill.
 About 300 acres of land have been bought for the home of this new mill, plat this property for village of wide , streets, large lot for each house. re- 1 creation parks, etc. Choice locations
 in the village will be selected for
 and kindergarten, all of which will
 be erected by the company. Something over 200 homes for operatives will be erected at once, each to have largo lot with ample ground for garden. | the houses to be of modern design and comfortably arranged. and with all conveniences. In fact, 1t is the inten- 1 tion of the company to make this an ideal village.
 The main building of the new mill Is
 to be more than 800 feet in length, or a few feet longer than the immense | building of Lanett Cotton Mills, which | contains now greater floor space than | the largest mill in the South. and to
 be three stories high; will have 35.000
 spindles and looms, and equipped with
 electric power throughout.
 When this new mill is completed, the
 West Point Manufacturing Company vii
 be the largest manufacturers of Luck
 in the world. he mills at West Point
 will also be the largest consumers of
 cotton of any town 1 nthe South. the
 bales.
 While the general offices of these
 mills ills are at West Point. Ga. the mills
 county, Alabama near West Point. | Extending Rail Line.
 Following closely on the announce
 new mill of the West Point Manufac- | turing Company, 1t develops that there
 Is great activity all along the line of
 the 9, chattahoochee Valley Railway.
 the consumption of cotton by the
 mills here. all of which are on .ts line, | was considerably less than now, and with the building of the new mill the
 agement will require something more i than 75000 bales of cotton. So 1t mas l been found necessary to extend the | road into new territory, where'a larE-
 CT supply of cotton can be secured. Engineer A, H. Frazer, with a corps
 of surveyors, has been in the field sur veying a line north of here for the ! past week and they are now campei 1 at Abbottsford on the Atlanta, Blr-
 mingham and Atlantic. from which | point they are working northward. It | is the intention of the company to push the extension of this road for about thirty miles as soon as the sur- Vey Is completed, but owing to obJec- tions of some of the land owners along the proposed route, a new survey may be necessary.
 The company will begin at once the
 expenditure of considerable money in the buildings for its terminals at West Point, and the erection of store and | office buildings and warehouse
 The headquarters at present of the | Stone and Webster corps of engineers
 Is located on this road in the inter l est of largo development of water | few miles below West Point. There
 are fifteen to twenY engineers in the | party who are working out plans for the power plant which has been con | templated for some ,I.ne by this firm B. H.. Hardaway. the contractor,
 who, during the past few years, built the two great stone dams across the Chattahooche River, one at Langdale for the West Point Manufacturing Company, and one at Riverview for the to build the large new power house for | the West Point Manufacturing Com l pany, and, with his engineers, Is here
 and busy with this work.