a rule, all the cotton mills have had a year of unusual activity. The production has been of larger volume than in any previous year, and the goods have found a ready sale generally but at comparatively low prices, considering the high prices which prevailed during the first six months of the year for cotton. Market prices, except in a few cases, did not vary with the price of cotton. Opening generally at low rates, cotton goods have been steady, the home and export demand being sufficient to absorb the supply of all standard and staple makers of brown, bleached, and colored goods, if we except printing cloths and calicoes….
“The worsted goods industry has been marked by fresh life since the new tariff has, to a great extent, cut off the importation of the lowest grades of such goods. All the old factories have started up, and are making goods on safe orders; and new mills are being erected by European and British capitalists with a view to manufacturing a finer class of dress goods, etc., than ever before has been produced in this country. The woollen goods industry, apart from ladies’ cloths, does not show any perceptible signs of improvement, but keeps on a slow, steady gait, apart from carpetings and woollen underwear. Both of the latter industries have been unusually busy during the last six months at fairly profitable prices.”
To give a complete list of the new industries started since the passage of the McKinley bill would be impossible, and would occupy more space than The Arena could spare. I give, therefore, a partial list compiled from the Boston Commercial Bulletin, and covering only the first three months after the passage of the law, that is, from Oct. 1, 1890. These are the months most unfavorable to the bill, but the statistics show what the growth of new and old industries has been under the tariff of 1890 in three months, and indicate what the future increase is likely to be.
Shoe factory at Portsmouth, Va.
Tannery and horse collar manufactory at Demorest, Ga.
Shoe factory building by the town of Ayer to cost $15,000.
White Bros, new tannery at Lowell for finishing fine upper leather.
Towle’s new shoe factory at Northwood, N. H.
New shoe factory at Natick, Mass.
New shoe factory at Beverly, Mass.
New shoe factory at Salisbury, N. C.
Voltaire Electric Shoe Co., of Manchester, N. H. (Capital, $50,000.)
New factory at Ellsworth, Me.
New factory at Sherman, Me.
New factory at Whitman, Mass., for Commonwealth Shoe Co.
New factory at East Pepperell, Mass. (Employs over 700 hands.)
Manhattan Rubber Shoe Co., at New York. (Capital, $50,000.)
Crocker Harness Co., of Tisbury, Mass. (Capital, $77,000.)
Mutual Land & Mfg. Co., at Durham, N. C. (Capital, $280,000.)
Stock company (capital, $250,000) to erect cotton mill, at Fort Worth, Texas.
Cabot Cotton Mfg. Co., at Brunswick, Me. (70,000 spindles.)
Shirt factory at Milford, Del. (To employ 30 women.)
New mill at New Bedford, Mass., for the manufacture of fine yarn, on account of the high tariff on this grade of goods.
New mill at Dallas, Texas. (15,000 spindles.)
New cotton mill at Monroe, La. (Capital, $200,000.)
New mill at Austin, Texas, to cost $500,000.
Cotton factory at New Iberia, Ky.
Stock company (capital, $500,000) at Atlanta, Ga., to work the fibre of the cotton stalk into warp for cotton bales.
New cotton factory at Abbeville, S. C.
New cotton factory at Summit, Miss.
Jean pants and cotton sack factory, at Louisiana State Penitentiary.
New cotton mill at Moosup, Conn.
New cotton mill at Wolfboro, N. H. (Capital, $800,000.)
Bagging mills at Sherman, Texas.
Cotton batting factory at Columbia, S. C. (Capital, $40,000.)
Cotton mill at Greenville, Tenn.
Cotton tie factory at Selma, Ala.
Harvey’s carpet mills at Philadelphia, Pa.
Arlington mills at Lawrence. (Worsted—500 hands.)
Knitting mills at Cohoes, N. Y.
Knitting mills at Bennington, Vt. (75 hands.)
Woollen mill at Barre Plains near Worcester. (Fancy Cassimeres.)
Crescent yarn and knitting mills at New Orleans, La. (Capital, $75,000. Capacity 500 dozen of hose per day.)
Wytheville Woollen & Knitting Co. at Wytheville, W. Va. (Capital, $30,000.)
Yarn factory at Athens, S. C.
Coat factory at Ellsworth, Me. (Employs 75 to 100 hands.)
Woollen mills at Lynchburg, Va.
Woollen manufactory at Philadelphia, Pa.
Knitting mill (200 x 90) at Cohoes, N. Y.
Woollen factory at Worcester, Mass.
Knitting mill at Raleigh, N. C. ($25,000.)
Knitting mill at Pittsboro, N. C.
Cotton and woollen yarns at Catonsville, Md. (Capital, $10,000.)
Yarn factory at Lambert’s Point, Va. (Capital, $25,000.)
New factories of the Merrimack Coat and Glove Co., at Waban, N. H.
Knitting mill at Rockton, N. Y.
Yarn manufactory at Winsted, Conn.
Worsted manufactory at Woonsocket, R. I.
Chattanooga Pottery Co. Pottery mills at Millville, Tenn.
Glass factory to manufacture glass jars and bottles at Middletown, Indiana.
Window glass factory at Baltimore, Md.
Glass manufactory at Fostoria, Ohio. (125 persons operate 12 pots.)
Parmenter Mfg. Co. at East Brockfield, Mass. (Capital, $250,000.)
Glass manufactory at Grand Rapids, Mich.
American Union Bottle Co. Glass works at Woodbury, N. J.
A. Busch Glass Works at St. Louis, Mo.
Large glass plant at Denver, Col., by Chicago parties. (To employ between 300 and 400 men.)
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