The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-02-20
PAY ROLL OF TWO
LOCAL FACTORIES
$4,000 PER MONTH
COTTON AND PENCIL MILLS EN-
PLOY MORE THAN $50
PEOPLE.
VISITED BY HERALD REPORTER
Most Up-to-Date Machinery and Meth
cd of Management EmpIoyed-Mau.
ny County Raises Only one-Twelfth
Enough Cotton to Supply Needs.

Few realize the importance and
size of some of the industries of Co
lumbia. 1t would not be a bad idea
to institute, as many of the cities OF
the state now have done, See Your
City" trips. Jackson, Memphis and
other towns have set apart special
days on which the business men quit
their business absolutely and make a
tour of the city in order to see all of
it's industries. Columbia might well
do likewise, for there are many of the
largest industries in the city which
95 per cent of the population have
never seen and know nothing about.
A visit to South Columbia Wednes-
day afternoon convinced The Herald
reporter more thoroughly than ever
of the possibilities that lie dormant
here for the promotion Of factories
and other various forms of industry.
He went through the plants of the
pencil and cotton factories. The pay
roll of these two concerns is over
$4,000 per month.
The officers of the cotton factory
are ]. P. Street, president, and Watts
F. Embry, secretary and general man
ager On an average they work 125
hands per day. The pay roll is over
$4,000 per month. They consume in
one month all the cotton that Maury
county raises in whole year. The
rest has to be imported from other
points in the state and the South.
The factory runs twelve months in
the year. One of the notable features
of it's management is the fact that in
accordance with the provisions of the
last law of the state, it runs only
fifty-eight hours working time in the
week, and yet has not cut down the
salaries of the employees from what
they were when the worked sixty
hours. The management, in spite of
the fact that they get two hours less
work per week than formerly, have
the salaries at the same
figure as before. 1t has recently
made certain very decided improve
ments that will increase the capacity
Of the factory. Machines that have
sixteen looms instead of eight have
been installed.
One man can now do nearly twice
as much work as formerly. 1t is GER
tainly a very interesting sight to wit
ness the transformation of the raw
cotton into all kinds of manufactured
products.
Near the clifton factory is the big
pencil factory of Houston & Liggett |
They are now working lis hands, and
their pay roll runs over $4,000 per
year. They buy the cedar rails from |
the farmers of the county and work |
them up into Stats that are later man.
fractured into pencil material At |
present they have more than 1,000,- |
700 cedar rails on their yards. They |
have nearly exhausted the supply in |
his county and much of the material |
IS being brought from other points |
It is said that they have a standing |
offer to all farmers to put up a COM
plete and up-to-date wire fence for all !
who will furnish them the cedar rails |
that were in the old fence.
In addition to these two big facto.
ries in the southern portion of the
city, there are nearly ten acres be-
tween the two railroads which are
covered with cedar and To- /
Gust poles. There are also always
large numbers of saw logs that are on
the yards either ready, or already be-
ing shipped out to other points.