Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-16

he reasons are to large extent geograph-
zeal. The cotton ceners are close to the
sea- and they have the right climatic condi-
tons.
1t is largely due to geographical reason.
that the most of the. cotton mills of the
southern states are located in the Piedmont.
or foothills OF the Appalachian mountains.
They are to be found on the edge of the
highlands of North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Georgia. where the climate is riph..
the rainfall plentiful, the labor supply from
the small farms and the mountains abund
ant, and where electric power has been gen
Grated from the streams which flow down.
the mountains. These conditions will lead
to steady increase in the mills Of this re-
gion.
here are now cotton factories all the way
from Lynchburg, Va, to Atlanta, Ga. and
! might say all the way to New Orleans.
From the borders of Virginia to those Of
Georgia, along the Southern railroad, the
country is one almost continuous mill vii
lage, and many new factories are being
erected. During the past year there has
been an increase in the southern spindles
of more than four hundred and fifty thou
sand and the new capital that has gone into
the business is estimated at more than
eleven million dollars. The new mills are
scattered over eight different states, but the
most OF them are in the Piedmont region.
-Four have gone UP at Gastonia not far from
here, and there is new one at Mayworth
n. G., which has twenty-five thousand spin
dies
Some OF the largest of the new mills ara
those of Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago
They have eight different plants in this
state, operating more than 10000 spindles
The capital invested is something like S.
OOo,oOO. That company has recently
bought 1000 acres near Martinsyille. Va.
which will be devoted to cotton manufac-
turing, and it is about to open mill for
making cotton bedspreads 1t has two mills
making ginghams, one that manufactures
Sheetings and others for blankets, finishings.
sirrghams and outings
he character of goods manufactured in
the south is rapidly changing Not MANY
years ago only the cheaper and coarser
kinds of cottons were made and a large
part OF the industry was devoted to warns.
Today the mills are making cottons of every
description. | have before me list OF. the
cotton mills tributary to certain railroads
1t would take a column of this newspaper
to give the names OF the different manufac-
lures. They range from coarse sheetinps
to the finest OF muslins, and include such
things as drills, shirtings ducks, flannels,
crashes, towelings and denims They make
organdes, percales, cheviots, cottonades and
blankets. They make cacees and print
goods of various kinds, and also damasks,
gnghams, checks, plaids and satines.
There are large number OF knitting
mills Those along the Southern railroad
have more than $4,000 knitting machines
and oil 900 spindles. Many of these knitting
mills are now making goods for the Army,
and the same is true of large number OF
the cotton factories. The business of all
the mills has been much greater since war
was declared, and | am told that the knit
goods manufacturers have already exported
products to the amount OF about $23,OOOOO0
which is an increase Of S20,O00,O0O over
their exports Of 1913, the year preceding
the war.
FRANK G. CARPENTER