The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-23

time over thi1.. O.. but prob-
ably it is. Or, it =, Sc to saw
some of it is not 80 o. d some is
now Older than then. Greensboro
surely put in long, quiet uneventful
youth An ambition to be doing
something began to appear in the
early days, and it is set down that
about 1929 Greensboro had a cotton
mill working about 5000 spindles and
possibly seventy-five lo oms. This was
one OF the first cotton mills in the
State, the mill at the Falls of the
Tar in Edgecombe county in 1918.
and the mill on the Catawba near
LincOlntOn in 1922, antedating the
Greensboro mill.
The Cones Come.
In spite Of the early start 1t was
left for NJ oses, Caesar and J. w. Gone
to come down from Baltimore or up
that way somewhere, and really make
Greensboro q cotton milling commu-
nifty. They did it.
But the Cones were geniuses. They
first opened a selling house for cot
ton goods, and from that embarked in
the manufacture. They struck a spe-
cialty the making of denims. Denim
is colored twilled cotton weave,
heavy, and durable. 1t was formerly
used for overalls, but proved Of such
a serviceable weight and texture that
it has been rapidly growing in favor
for innumerable uses.
The denim mills struck a popular
fancy, and they nursed it and sup
piled it, Greensboro today is working
nearly sixty thousand Spindles and
almost five thousand looms on de-
nims the products being enough to
| make a web Of denims every week
long enough to reach, air line. from
Greensboro o Washington. Or, to
| simplify the comparison, in the IF
| teen minutes you waited for dinner
| to be ready, the active looms and the
| attendants hands turnedOut a mile Of
cloth at the Greensboro denim mills.
! The indefinite patience that lays
thread after thread one beside the
other until the countless millions
have formed delicate cauSeway
miles In length. 1t is one Of the testi-
| nDnials to human achievement and
human persistence. The Greensboro
denim mills have woven enough clott
| in their life time to put around old
mother earth a bandage that would
give about her waist, several strips 9
lyard wide, and make her look right
comfortable.
The denim mills at Greensboro
make sixty per cent of all of this class
Of goods made in the country. The
market includes probably every
county in the United States, and 9
large portion of the habitable globe
1t is said that scarcely a wheel turns
or a cameps foot is planted any
where that is not in sight Of denims
from the Greensboro factories. A
large exporting office is maintained
in Greensboro, whence the products
Of the mills are distributed TO all mar
kets. and this distributing office il
- h.,S Of
lima.
A Manufacturing Center.
The manufacturing fever was SLOW
getting started in Greensboro in spit
of the early beginnint but once the
lcOntagion had taken hold, its lnf1u
lences were decided. Now Greensboro
lis a manufacturing center in ear
nest.
The town is something like Lon
don in one respect 1t has enclosed
itself with a line which holds moth
ing inside except the city government
The mills have spread In all direc
tions with undue disregard for The
line of the municipal boundary, ane
the people have made their home
outside the line with the same abso
lutte freedom. SO the industrial an'
lsOcial Greensboro is spread away be
yond the limits that mark the mum
Icinal Greensboro and the real com
rnunitv Of Greensboro is a far bigge
INIT than the incorporated Greens
borO.
In the community are factories o
divers kinds numbering abou
seyenty-fiye, and in these factorle
some six thousand people are add
ing to the worlds wealth every day
The population in that lndustrla
range reaches about 10000.
These figures are cited merely t
indicate what Greensboro is dolns
now that it has got under way, Tor /
is under way, and with tremehoou
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