New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Would Obviaie the Necessity
of Shipping Cloth to
Other Regions To BE
Made Ready for Market
s,,,,al pnra,,h 10 Ths Tribsr.

sPARTANBURG. s. C.. June is.-
The report that a i500o0OOO corpora
ton q, being formed a. Charlotte, y. G,
% build 4 chain Of textile mills In me
Caroiinas Ia regarded here by those
we'll informed in textile matters A.
merely rumor
Instead Of concentrating on ihs
movement 70 get tho cotton tsr'lie
plants Of the North and East switched
10 the cotton fields Of Dixie, people n
this section are looking forward 20 ne
securing of bleacheries and dytin1
plants. IN Sphrtanburg County ihefe
are tgenty-seven cotton mills, with
total Of $50 400 spindles and turning
out Manufactured products worth tbJ,-
OOO, 900 annually. Yet amid all mis-
making Of cloth there are no finishing
plants' The cloth must be shipped
away 70 be made ready for market.
spartanburg. along with other cities IN
South Carolins, is bidding for finishing
plants. Chambers Of commerce are as-
sembling data for companies interssted
In seeking locations IN the South
Within the past week SpartaDburg has
received
ports and has made ready % offer m
ducemen,s 20 land finishing plants
BILLY" Carter. president of the Car
ter Underwear Manufacturing Com
pary, Boston, visited Spartanburg re-
Gently 20 look over the field with a
view 20 establishing ar underwear
plan, somewhere in n. Piedmont sec
/ tion Of upper South Carolina. For
u
! have realized that the textile activities
intrenched In the North will have % BE-
switched 20 the South. Fifty years
from to-day I hrmly believe this will
be the order of things"
Textile men here believe like Nr.
/ Carter. but pending the half century
until the transfer has become the "or-
der Of things Spartanburg and other
are going after smaller gamc-the
/ finishing plants. They are needed
badly. The theory formerly held that
the water In this region Is not
adapted 90 the process Of finishing COT
ton goods has been exploded. Goods
Of beautiful pattern, manufactured az
the Model mill in Spartanburg. have
been finished Of 70 perfection az a
plant in North Carolina, not thirty
miles away.
Sparianburg is expecting a party %
distinguished visitors this week and
the Chamber Of Commerce here has
been tipped Of % be prepared 20
show these men available mill sites,
especially along the Piedmont &
Northern Railway. This road il the
electric interurban line between Char
lotie, y. C., and this city. II Is
owned by the Duke interests But ,he
coming Of this party is not linked up
generally by mill men with the re-
ported S50,0o0,0o0 corporation story
coming out Of Charlotte.
The price OF cloth Is rising and the
demand. il is reported. is better than
Il has been IN many months
CHARLOTTE. y. c.. June la.-Con-
hrma,ion OF the rumored organization
Of a s5o,00o.Oo0 textile corporation Is
I impossible. although prominent textile
men believe that steps are now being
taken 20 that end I, Is thought that
J. B. Duke IS al the bottom OF the
proposed corporation. but il cannot be
verified from officials OF his company
here.
There seems 20 be ample reason 70
believe that the organization is in
I process of formation. but promoters
are 50 covering their tracks that Il IS
/ impossible 20 obtain definite informa.
/ tion. Il is sad that prominen,
I South Carolina textile man has been
offered the presidency OF the new cor
/ poration.