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THE SOtHHERN WORLD, MARCH 15,1882.
Manufacturing In Atlanta.
On the hillside beyond Oakland Cemetery,
where twenty years ago, two mighty armies
were using their most strenuous exertions
to tear down and devastate this country,
there is, to-day, in course of erection and
near a completion, an industry that will in
a short time, more than remedy ail the
evils these two armies did.
It is the Fulton cotton spinning company,
morcfamilinrly known, however, in Atlanta,
us Elsas, May & Co.’s cotton factory. The
building as it now stands, is 160x203 feet and
has n capacity of 7,000 spindles. The roof
covers just one acre of ground, and at the
same time is one of the most thoroughly
constructed buildings in the South. The
building Is two stories high and is arranged
with a view to security from accidents of all
kinds. In the lower or basement floor is all
the shafting, and the machinery on the floor
above receives its power from below. Be
sides being used for shafting, this basement
floor will be utilized as a storage room, and
some future day, when the demands upon
the factory nrc large enough, the weaving
department will be brought from above and
placed on this floor. Halfway between these
two floors, are the engine and boiler rooms,
which are separate. The motive power is
supplied by a Babcock & Wilcox water tube
boiler of the latest style and most modern
improvement. In its construction it is so
arranged that there is no possibility of an
accident. There are two “floors” within.
Upon one floor the fuel is ignited and after
being thoroughly fired is transferred by a
simple twist of the wrist to a second “floor”
or grate, where it is entirely consumed and
in its consumption all of the carbon disap
pears.
Adjoining this room is a fine, large Wheel-
ock engine, which works with safety and
ease. It is a 160 horse-power and is a cut-off,
non-conducting engine. The receiving and
exhaust pipe are connected with the engine
from below, and take up little or no room.
The register of the steam is an unique affair.
It is a combination of a clock, a steam
guage and a counter, by which the number
of revolutions made in a day, week, month,
or year, can be easily ascertained. The drive
wheel has a thirty-inch belt and is twenty
feet In diameter.
Just outside of this engine room and with
in a few feet, is an immense water tower
fifty feet high, with a capacity for 20,000
gallons of water.
The floor upon which the machinery is
located is 150x203 feet and is seventeen feet
high. The roof is a truss roof with monitor
lights, and there arc 50,000 feet of glass in
one room. One large room on this floor is
used for receiving and mixing cotton. Next
to this room is one occupied by the picker.
They are both supplied with automatic
sprinklers connected with the water tank,
and in one of them is a Ilabcock fire-extin
guisher, besides an abundance of hose. In
the large room are two sections of nine
cards with two railway heads. The two
railway heads take in both sections of the
cards. There are twenty-two spinning
frumes, and looms, etc., in abundance.
Near this main building, which will even
tually be made 150x406, are thirty-one neat,
pretty one-story cottages for tho employes.
Seven of them are intended for the bosses
and twenty-six for the operatives. They are
32x38 feet, and have four and five rooms
each.
Every portion of the building is connect
ed with the water tank, and the automatic
sprinklers are abundant. The building is
lighted by electricity.
Operators are now employed in the build
ing, but the full capacity of the factory will
not be tested until the first of April, when
the Fulton Cotton Spinning Company will
begin converting the fleecy staple into cotton
cloth.
The Collar* or Milk.
Silk culture is looming up as a possible
and profitable industry in the South. Mr.
Schelpert, at Clarkston in DeKalb county,
ten miles from Atlanta, is going extensively
into its culture. He will plant forty acres
in tho mulberry. As a matter of interest to
our readers we give the following letter pub
lished in the Atlanta Constitution:
Editob Atlanta Contsitution: Will you
please allow us space In your columns to say
a few words in regard to silk culture, a sub
ject of groat importance to our people,
Many years ago we had no little excite
ment on silk culture, and large fortunes were
made in selling trees and silkworm eggs,
and since the present agitation of the subject
most people believe that the present inter
est is being develojKtd for the same purpose,
and not only refuse to engage in it, but will
not even investigate the subject. We will
prove in this article that silk culture is high
ly profitable, and that the present interest
is not being developed for the same purpose
of many years ago.
We will state that it is very simple and
light, and a lady can attend to silk worms
that will produce cocoons worth from $300
to $500 without in the least interfering with
her household duties, and the time required
to do this is about five weeks, beginning a-
bout the first of April.
Owing to the invention of improved
machinery for manipulating the cocoons,
manufacturers arc enabled to pay a good
price for them, which makes it highly pro
fitable to the producer. It is within the
past few years that it has been discovered
that the osage orange tree produces a fine
quality of silk.
We have in this country over two hundred
silk mills, .and the number is rapidly in
creasing, and with the fast increasing de
mand for silk, are among the chief reasons
why silk culture is profitable now and was
not many years ago. We have had many
years experience in silk culture, both in
France and in this country, and we know
that the South offers the best advantages of
any country in the world for the culture of
silk. We arc establishing at this place silk
mills for the purpose of reeling silk, and our
object, if possible, is to disabuse the minds of
the people that the object is speculation that
we agitate the subject. To show our confi
dence in the profit of silk culture, we will
.make this offer:
To all who have either the white mulberry
or osage orange, we will furnish them eggs
and take our pay in part of the crop, and
for the other part, will allow from $1.50 to
$2.50 per pound for the cocoons.
We have thousands of the osage orange in
the South, and if our offer is generally ac
cepted an interest of wonderful importance
will be quickly deieloped. By giving this
space in your columns, we think it will en
able and induce a large number to engage in
silk culture who would not do so if they had
to buy their eggs. We could give the name
of a lady not far distant from here who made
over $500 last year in silk culture.
8. A. Lanier & Co.,
Silk Culturists and Reelers, Huntsville,
Alabama.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
A woolen mill will be started in Prattville,
Ala., at an early day.
During 1881, 322,034 tons of coal were
mined in the State of Alabama.
The Huntsville.Ala., cotton factory makes
GOO hundred pounds of thread per day.
The A8hoville(N. C.,) Citizen, thinks that
a deposit of petroleum has been discovered
near that place.
Mr. .1. H. Harris reports that a deposit of
good anthracite coal, has been found on the
lands of Mrs. M. A. Harris, in Middle Ala
bama.
A steam Flouring mill is projected at Lu-
ray, Va., and $ll,0<xt of the necessary $16,-
000 to inaugurate the enterprise has been
subscribed.
There is a tract of fifty acres of land with
in two miles of Rutherfordton, N. O., on
which there is said to be a large amount of
magnetic iron ore.
It is said that Philadelphia exhibitors at
the Atlanta Cotton Exhibition, got orders
for over $2,000,000 worth of goods from
Southern planters.
Iron or steel immersed in a solution of
carbonate of potash or soda for a few min
utes, will not rust for years; not even when
exposed to a damp atmosphere.
The use of green or damp fuel of any sort,
Is very unprofitable. A large amount of the
heat which it would yield if dry, fs ab
sorbed and lost In the evaporation of the
sap or moisture.
About seventy-Ave thousand dollars has
been subscribed to tho capital stock of the
Pacolet manufacturing company, the mill to
be built at Trough fc 8hoals, Spartanburg
county, 8. C.
A single plate of perforated sine about a
foot square, suspended over a gas jet, is said
to retain the noxious emanations from the
burning gas, which it is well-known de
stroys the bindings of books, tarnishes the
gliding and vitiates the atmosphere for
breathing.
Hon. J, F. Awtry.ownsa farm of 400 acres
on the Air-Line railroad, on which ia a
quarry of pure carbonate of lime. It is said
to be almost inexhaustible, and theonly one
of the kind in Northeast Georgia. He pro
poses to erect works with a capacity for forty
barrels per day, at a net profit of 50cents per
barrel.
Here are some of the dividends declared
by English cotton mills In 1881: Moorefield,
1714 per cent.; Albert, 12 per cent.; Twist, 16
per cent.; Oak, 15 per cent.; Parkside, 13 per
cent.; Stanley Mills, 13 per cent.; Sun Mill
Spinning Company, 12 per cent.; Royton
Spinning Company, 20 per cent.
To clean machinery take half an ounce of
camphor, dissolve in one pound of melted
lard, take off the scum and mix in as much
fine blacklead as will give it an iron color.
Clean the machinery and smear with this
mixture. After twenty-four hours rub clean
with a soft linen cloth. It will keep clean
for months under ordinary circumstances.
During the early part of the year 1870, Mr.
W. W. Walcott, came to Griffin, and he and
Mr. C. H. Osborn formed a partnership for
the purpose of manufacturing cottage chairs.
At first it was not intended to be done on an
extensive scale, but so great was the demand
for their goods, that they now manufacture
about ten or twelve thousand chairs per an
num. A portion of the carriage factory of
Mr. Osborn, has been set apart for the bus
iness, and fifteen or twenty persons nre con
stantly employed by the chair firm alone.
Osborn A Walcott also manufacture cottage
bedsteads and other articles of household
furniture, but the chair department is given
more especial attention. The chairs are now
sold by a large portion of the furniture
trade of the State. One firm has bought
from the manufacturers nearly 4,000 chairs
since October last.—[Griffin (Ga.) Sun.
. Last week the title papers were executed
by Messrs. David'Bukofzer and H. A. Rus
sell, conveying to Mr. H. H. C. Babcock an
undivided one-third interest in the realty of
the Cherokee manufacturing company, to
gether with the appurtenances thereon situ
ated.
The Cherokee manufacturing company,
sometimes called in Dalton the “novelty”
works, is widely known throughout Georgia
and elsewhere as on* of the largest estab
lishments of its kind in the country. Pos
sessing, as it does, the newest and most im
proved machinery, it has more than held its
hand with similar establishments in larger
cities, and its shipments are being rapidly
built up throughout the South and even
west of the Mississippi.
It will be gratifying to the community,
and especially to the friends of Mr. Babcock,
to know that he.has connected himself with
the concern, and his growing popularity and
well-known business sagacity, promises a
continuace of the already marked prosi>er-
ity of the company.—[Dalton (Ga.) Argus.
A Marvelous Woman.
In the town of Salisbury, N. C., a paper is
published entitled the North Carolina Home
Magazine, and edited by Mrs. McLaughlin.
She is without doubt, a marvel of Industry
and pluck. She Is a young orphan, not yet
20 years of age, with an invalid husband and
widowed mother dependent in part on her
labor. She sets and distributes all the type,
makes up the forms, corrocts copy and does
everything except locking up the form.
During the past two issues, she not only did
all the work on the magazine, but all the
cooking, ironing and housework, and had
the care of a little child beside. She is one
of Earth’s heroes, and deserves not only the
prayer, “God bless the little woman,” but
liberal encouragement at the hands of the
public who can not fail to appreciate, her
efforts. *
A Man of the Bight Stamp.
The Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel publishes a
letter from the President of a Board of
County Supervisors in South Mississippi
which testifies unmistakably that its writer
Is a man of the right stamp. The writer
says: “I have corn and bacon of my own
raising—plenty to do me. I don’t owe any
body any money; I have plenty of stock; I
have no favors to ask of anybody but the
Supreme Being, and I always bow to His
will.”
At the meeting of the 8tate Grange Pat
rons of Husbandry of Virginia, at Alexan
dria, on the 14th ult., Dr. J. M. Blanton (re
elected for the fourth terra by unanimous
vote) Master, in an able address, portrayed
the progress of the Order with a master
hand, closing in the following eloquent
strain: "Standing here in this historic city,
me thinks I hear a voice, which bids us God
speed in our noble work. It comes from the
grave of one who like us, was a Patron of
Husbandry—it comes from the tomb, where
a proud and manly form was laid—it comes
from the dust of him who was the father of
his country—it proceeds from Mount Vor-
nbn, where Liberty keeps her sleepless vigil
at the tomb of her favorite child—it is
spoken by him who was first in war, first in
peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen;
and though that tongue be still and silent
in the grave, yet it speaks in words more el
oquent, with more force, with more signifi
cance than ever proceeded from the lips of
mortal man. And the words arc, ‘ United
by the strong tie of agriculture,’ there is no
work more noble, no work more patriotic,
than to labor for the good of ourselves, onr
country, and mankind.”
The prosperity of the people of the South
depend upon the agriculturist. It is, there
fore, of moment to every citizen that he
wisely plan for the future. He should not,
by erroneous economy, cripple his own re
sources. His failures involve us all.
The independence of the farmer chiefly
consists in the satisfaction of knowing that
his corn cribs are sufficiently full to supply
the staff of life. When this is the case, he
is independent as to the market price of cot
ton, if he is out of debt.
The millions of dollars which are every
year sent out of the State to purchase corn
and other provisions had better be kept at
home. It would add to the present comfort
of every fannerand planter, and relieve him
of the external worry about supplies for the
future.
True, an acre planted in corn, or sown in
small grain,may hot yield as much in money
as when planted in cotton. But the value
of cotton varries so much, and the plant is
subject to so many accidents, as to make it
very unreliable, to meet the certain demands
for food, which must be met at any cost, no
matter how great.
To the Point.
" Old man ” Benson, of the Hartwell (Ga.)
Sun, is a noted wag, but the following para
graph indicates that there ia a great deal of
solidity about him. His remarks are pun
gent and pointed.
“A fanner who spends the winter visiting
grog-shops and the little railroad stations
now in every neighborhood instead of stay
ing at home,fixing up fences, hauling leaves,
making manure, and getting his land in
order for the next crop,cannot expect to feed
himself and family on cotton option corn
and bacon, and if nothing else will stop the
foolishness of such fools, a good old-fashion
ed famine such as they had when Joseph
"chawed” his brethren in Egypt about Ben
jamin’s cup, would dogood.”
Carry the radiance of your soul in your
face; let the world have the benefit of it.
Let your cheerfulness be left for good, wher
ever you are, and let your smiles be scatter-
ed like sunbeams—“on the just as well as
the unjust.” Such a disposition will yield
you a rich reward, for its happy effects will
come home to you and brighten your mo
ments of thought. Smiles are the higher
and better responses of nature to the einola-
tion of the soul. Let the children have tne
benefit of them—these little ones who need
the sunshine of the heart to educate them,
and would find a level for their buoyant na
ture in the cheerful, loving faces of those
who lead them. Let them not be kept from
the middle aged, who need the encourage
ment they bring. Give your smile olso to
the aged. They come to them like the quiet
rain of summer, making fresh and verdant
the long, weary path of life. Be gentle and
indulgent to all, love the true, the beautiful
the just, the holy. ’
Cleaning Black Silk.—One of the things
“not generally known,” at least in this coun
try,is the Parisian method of cleaning black
silk; the modus operandi is very simple, and
the result infinitely superior to that achiev
ed in any other manner. The silk must be
thoroughly brushed and wiped with a cloth,
then laid flat on a board or table, and well
sponged with hot coffee, thoroughly freed
from sediment by being strained through
muslin. The silk is sponged on the side in
tended to show ; it is allowed to become par
tially dry,and then ironed on the wrong side.
The coffee removes every particle of grease,
and restores the brilliancy of silk without
imparting to It either the shiny appearanceor
crackly and papery stiffhess obtained by
beer or, indeed, any other liquid. The silk
really appears thickened by the process, and
this good effect is permanent. Our readers
who will experimentarize on an a'pron or
cravat will never again try any other
method.