Cotton mill, commercial features
Subtitle: a text-book for the use of textile schools and investors : with tables showing cost of machinery and equipments for mills making cotton yarns and plain cotton cloths
By: by D.A. Tompkins
Contributors: Gregg, William, 1800-1867; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Cotton manufacture; Cotton textile industry; Textile factories
Other titles: Cotton mill, commercial features :; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed August 15, 2002)

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: Cotton mill, commercial features : a text-book for the use of textile schools and investors : with tables showing cost of machinery and equipments for mills making cotton yarns and plain cotton cloths / by D.A. Tompkins. Charlotte, N.C. : Published by the author, 1899 (Charlotte, N.C. : Presses Observer Printing House) viii, 240 p. : ill., plates ; 24 cm. Appendix (p. [203]-240): Essays on domestic industry, or An inquiry into the expediency of establishing cotton manufactures in South Carolina. Written by William Gregg of Edgefield District, South Carolina in 1845. Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: Cotton as a factor in progress; title: Values in cotton; title: Organization of company; title: Location and surroundings; title: Raising capital; title: Investments, costs, profits; title: Book-keeping and accounting; title: Labor; title: Operatives homes; title: Power; title: Sale of products; title: Textile education; title: Road building and broad tires; title: Miscellaneous; title: Farm and factory; title: Biographical notes; title: Statistical tables and notes.