French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-01-04
PROSPECTS OF
COTTON MILL
HenderSOnVille May Have Opportunity
sOf Offering Storing Inducements
For a Cotton Mill.


The Hustler has been reliably in
formed that a movement will be
launched within a few weeks for the
realization of the long sought after
cotton mill for Hendersonville.
There are at least two groupes Of
capitalists who are now engaged in
the mill business and who will more
than double any amount of stock taken
by !ucaI &tuzens III building a mil, in
or near the city.
1hls information has come as a
source of keenest pleasure to some of
the c1tys leading citizens who have
lelt for many years that if the city
could get It's first cotton mill it wouId
be an easy matter to get more.
Inc names of the parties interested
ouL OF town will be made public at the
ilght time and the Hustler feels that
us Information is perfectly reliable
and can be depended upon by the
citizens.
mere is no doubt in the minds of a
great many people. throughout the
county that a cotton mill is one of tha
prime Things needed most by the conn
" In making this community one of
the best all the year round places on
the map. More payrolls is said to he
OF vital Importance in the further de-
VeIopment of HendersonvilIe.
VI course there are something's of a
larger nature, such as a railroad fr.,ro
mere to Greenville, or the like that
S Moulo place a bigger boom on the city
.DuI = When outside capital offers 10
linaHce the largest portion of the en-
~ sll3e G IS taiuly up To the cfti-
'@eIs OF HendeFSonville to come across
II is a well known fact that three
Iourths of the cotton mill operatives
OF south Carolina back in the eC,s
were North Carolinians. Thev were.
AAuuced to leave their mountain homes
Win the Turing prospects OF = larSs
pdyFoII and better opportunities T1aScs
same people were in many instances
oeCtered in home Comforts on1
~. finances, but they could not raceIvo
the benefits which nature had IavisI,1,1
bestowed upon their native count.
tnat OF pure air and pure water com, :
Dmed with an ideal clfmato nnsnr
passed IN any of the mill villages ~
the South. VI
eSe same people, their children
ana grand children of whom mo-,
n%VG grown up in the mills would
s-"uIy return to their old home stata
0nu county 1t is said that hundroJs
VI Hountalneers from this COUNTY orc
LOW working in the mills of South
AS to the locations suitable fou
cotton mill in HendersonviI1e ~
would only have to travel tbro''a,s
parts Of North and Soutb CaroI;rn 81
Dns1o nma tnat all kinds of locations are
bsnH some are sitting ON river
80. o'ners are on hill sides and
try. open ie"el coun-
al AN average mill owner wants a cheap
-lact OF land, thirty Or forty acres
not TOO Iar from railroad. and havin-'
: creek or branch RUNNING thropoh
same in ordef to get CHEAP water for
n1r r. ooiIers and fire protection.
.1eLuerS0n county is noted for its
LICK ana no doubt the mill ownoro
;ouId make their own brick on the
ground and the timbers could no ont
'lght IN Henderson county,
1he chlef trouble is said to have
'een power; but r. u. Oates has Offer
ID time and again enough power for
small cotton mill at the same rate
'harged by the Southern Power com
'any or any of the largest mower
'lants Of the South. Mr.. Oates wants
lew enterprises for Hendersonvil1o
ND mas on one or two occasions said
nat he would take part of the power
out in stock. This is. GER
a'nIy liberal proposition TO cotto~
nilI~ capital.
Should the citizens Of Henderson,.
lille really desire this proposed mill
hey are simply to show their hands
n subscribing the necessary stock
which will Onlv have to be one third
# the required amount of capital Of
he mill.
There is hardly 2 class of business
n the city that would not be directly
'eneftted from cotton mill. The
'aYrol1 Of a mill is tremendous in
'onnarison to the cost of building
be same. The mill business through
nj the country is Furnishing and the
Eo"khclders arc realizing much upon
heir investments.