Plans are being made by the Cannon Manufacturing Company, it was learned today, to erect at an early date a mammoth new addition to its Kannapolis plant which will add 50,000 spindles to the 130,000 spindles already in operation by this company in Kannapolis. At the same time, it was learned that a power plant, to supply electricity for the entire group of Cannon Mills, was being contemplated.
Although officials were able to give an estimate as to the actual cost of the mill, declaring that their plans were not sufficiently advanced for such an estimation, it is rumored in Concord that the approximate value of the new plant will be in the neighborhood of two and million dollars and possibly more. A more conservative figure placed the cost at two million.
Officials stated that it had been definitely decided that a new mill would be constructed and that it would have 50,000 spindles. The superintendent had been in conference with the engineers and had given them an idea of the plans. When they have completed their preliminary work, some idea of the actual cost could be given.
The plant is to be built on the Kannapolis-Salisbury highway just inside the Cabarrus County line. It will be a short distance north of Mill No. 6. The dimensions of the new structure are as follows: 600 feet long, 100 feet wide and three stories high. It will carry carding and spinning departments.
The proposed power plant has been considered for some time but no definite action has been taken. The entire project is still in embryo form. Experts have visited Kannapolis and have made a survey of the field with a view to making recommendations, They have been figuring on power developments but have made no report.
It is possible that a steam plant may be erected which will take care of the entire group of mills. If this is not found to be the most economical method of solving the power situation, it will not be constructed, however. The entire project rests on the report which the engineers make.
The new mill will make the seventh in the group at Kannapolis, the other six having been in operation for several years. Mills at Concord and York, S.C., are owned by the Cannon Manufacturing Company. The capital stock of the entire chain is given at $10,500,000.
The population increase at Kannapolis as a result of construction of the new addition will be considerable, it is pointed out. Over a thousand employes are to be added to the pay roll, which will probably increase the total population by over three or four thousand people. With a population of around 8,000 people at present, the new population will be in the neighborhood of 12,000 after the new building is constructed.
Although the school facilities were enlarged last year by the construction of a new building of 20 rooms, the influx of people after the present expansions, plans are completed will make the present school plant totally inadequate. Additions will have to be made to the present school or else an entire new school will have to be built.
With a total of 180,000 spindles, the Kannapolis branch of the Cannon Mills will be the largest unit in any city in North Carolina, and one of the largest in the South. The next largest mill in North Carolina is the Loray Mill, which has heretofore led the state in spindles with 137,504.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, Dec. 11, 1925
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