From the Fisherman and Farmer,
Elizabeth City, Thursday, Sept. 12, 1901. New Bern was sometimes spelled New
Berne and Newbern in various newspapers at the turn of the century.
New Enterprises That
Are Enriching our Favored Section
And now comes the fact that China can no longer claim to be
the only country that produces the rush from which the famous “Chinese matting”
is manufactured. This great monopoly can no longer belong exclusively to the
Flowery Kingdom. Along the banks of the Trent and Neuse rivers and their
tributaries and marshes, beginning about 15 miles above Newbern, there grows a
beautiful rush from three to seven feet high, samples of which were lately
submitted to a Boston expert and declared by him to be the identical species of
the Chinese variety and from which the Chinese mattings is made. The supply of
this rush in this State is positively inexhaustible. It is a perennial,
exceedingly hardy and a vigorous, rapid grower. In its original green state the
stalks are from the size of a knitting needle to that of a lead pencil. It is
conservatively estimated that about 300,000,000 yards of Chinese matting are
shipped into the United States alone annually from China. It will therefore be
seen what the discovery of this North Carolina rush really means to the
commercial world, and its importance to the men who will engage in its
manufacture. Truly the great and diversified wealth of the Old North State is a
constant and continual surprise. “The half has never been told.”
--Raleigh News and Observer
The Bonnie Cotton
Mills of Kings Mountain
The Bonnie Cotton Mills of Kings Mountain, N.C., which
completed its plant some months ago, started operations with 4,300 spindles on
twist ply yarns from 8s to 40s. It has now decided to add 1,000 spindles this
fall and more spindles later on to fill the building. The whole cost will be
about $100,000. Seventy-five hands are employed, which will be increased to 175
in a few months. All the tenement houses are nearly completed. J.S. Mauney is
president.
Independent Bleachery
in South Carolina
One of the most important announcements ever made in
connection with the Southern textile industry has appeared during the current
week. It is the announcement of the completion of the $300,000 bleachery at
Clearwater, S.C., the first of its character in this section to cater to the
genera mill trade. There are two other bleacheries in the south, but they are
operated in conjunction with cotton factories. The plant just completed will
print, bleach and dye sheetings, drills, ducks and sateens and its weekly
capacity is 100 tons of goods. The operators have been chosen from the leading
plants in New England, and the company owning the bleachery expects its plant
to be but the initial step that will ultimately result in the South printing,
bleaching and dyeing all of its manufactured cloth. The establishment of the
bleachery is due to the efforts of Mrs. Thomas Barrett Jr. of Augusta, Ga., the
company’s president, who has for years been identified with the cotton
manufacturing interest of the South.
Exports from Newport
News
Shipments of
live-stock from Newport News continues to be extensive. Four vessels recently
cleared form this port in one day, three of which carried 1,000 head of cattle
in addition to other cargo. Shipments of coal to Greece are now being made from
Newport News. A cargo was recently sent to Piraeus, the port of Athens,
consisting of 5,718 tons of New River coal.
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