The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-16
SCENE Or INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
The NaNahscme Cotton Mn Gives
Employment 10 POO People

To pass bs tbo WaNahaeble cotton
miH and soe "a large bricA building.
"a smoke stack. towering toward the
blue dome of heaven. three ware.
houses. au office building foriy-two
coiiagrs chapel for religious SER
vices and "a school house. only sun-
rcsts 20 one that hr is iu the Wcini-
% of manufacturing plant TO
realize the importance aud magui-
tude of the work being performed
one must investigate DO u dotau
Last Friday ) took % bundle of En-
torprisos and distributed them
among ,he operatives cottages and
at he same time interviewed r.. A.
DuBose. the popular superintendent.
and iupected the workings of the
machinery ] learned that there were
9 300 spndles consuming twenty
bales of cotton per day, that there
We're 205 looms that the cotton
consumed is sufficient to make 20
090 yards OF S-ounce duck. that this
factory. in addition TO duck, is man
ufacturing a towel good enough for
any ones use. That there is an in
vestment of $279,000; that there
are forty-tN-o tenant houses for the
tenants containing from three to five
rooms one ten room boarding house,
reading room furnished the oper-
atives by the management fire
department with four plugs, one CON
nected with the city water works
and three connected with the mill
tank. That there is reservoir with
a capacity of 100000 gallons from
which they are able to pump $50
gallons per minute That owing to
the superior facilities for fighting
fire, the insurance rate is only 80
cents per 800 per year. That the
operatives in point of intelligence
and respectability compare very ia
vorably with any community of like
number in the town. That the rules
of their reading room permit no
gambling, drinking or profanity
That the smokestack is of brick, was
constructed at a cost of 1880 and
guaranteed TO stand wind pressure
of so pounds to the square foot
That Superintendent DuBose not
knowing what velocity of wind pro-
duced so pounds pressure to the
square foot, appealed to Judge O. Il.
Dunlap, who. not knowing, suggest
ed calling up the librarian at Sims
Library That on being asked she
said, hold the phone a minute and
soon returned with the information
that wind with a velocity of 100
miles per hour produces a pressure
of 40 ga pounds per square foot.
That superintendent DuBose
thought if the stack would stand
100 miles per hour breeze 1t would
stand as much as the other build
| ings That there are from 175 to 200
operatives. That the weekly pay roll
! is about $1,000 or $4,000 per an
num- | know from a source | can
/ trust that the mill has been profit
able to the stockholders.
From the above and foregoing
! findings ] deduce the following con-
clusions: That this mill running on
| full time every working day in the
year would only consume 6,260
bales of cotton That the cotton crop
OF 1908 would supply cotton for ~
such mills. That there Is enough cap
ital in the county to build the other
twenty-one mills. That they would
furnish employment for 1000 peo-
I ple and bread for 1000 That II
1 Ellis county had that many mills
! they would do better than one, be
cause the output would be sufficient
to attract the trade. That such num-
Der OF mills would lead to the estab-
ushment Of other factories and make
Ellis county, in addition to the lead
ing cotton county in the world, also
n leader as q manufacturing COM
munity. That such revival in ma
terial progress would lead to good
roads, interurbans and railroads
That the county would bloom IKE
rose, and villages woul' become
towns and towns cities. I'll at the
Sims library Is one of TT creates,
institutions in the state a that Il
citizens of Waxahachie ar the sur
rounding vicinity will avail them
selves OF the opportunitiee by 1t OF
fered, they will soon wrest the titl'
from other cities and Wsxahachl'
will become In deed and truth, tn
Athens OF Texas. Ellis county