. North Carolina and its resources. this is considered a disadvantage as the modern tendency isto increase the size of the mill to reduce the cost per pound of finishedproduct. In North Carolina the small factory is a useful institution, assmall communities that otherwise could not have a mill at all can oftenafford a small one; many small water powers can be developed andutilized, and the small mill offers facilities for close supervision andfor working up local supplies of cotton while the financial results oftenbear comparison with those of larger concerns. Although mills of this type exist
. North Carolina and its resources. this is considered a disadvantage as the modern tendency isto increase the size of the mill to reduce the cost per pound of finishedproduct. In North Carolina the small factory is a useful institution, assmall communities that otherwise could not have a mill at all can oftenafford a small one; many small water powers can be developed andutilized, and the small mill offers facilities for close supervision andfor working up local supplies of cotton while the financial results oftenbear comparison with those of larger concerns. Although mills of this type exist in considerable numbers, yetthere are many in the State of larger proportions, for example, theHenrietta mills, which afford employment to the inhabitants of whatis now quite a town which has grown up on a site that ten years agowas one of the quietest woodland tracts in the State. Another, theVictor mill, which is one of the group of twelve mills now at work,or in course of erection in the city of Charlotte, is representative of. O I o Ljo o Cotton Mills. 191 tlie smaller type. In addition, other towns like Salisbury, Graham,Burlington and Greensboro have become quite important manufactur-ing centres and possess fine mills. The future possibilities of cotton manufacturing in the State aregreat. The motive power applied is either water or steam. Of theformer the aggregate is about 3,500,000 horse powers. ProfessorKerr said that if the whole of this were emploj^ed in manufacturingit would be adequate to turn 140,000,000 spindles. The water powerof North Carolina would manufacture three times the entire crop ofthe country, whereas all the mills on the continent only spin one-quarter of it. Putting the crop of the State at 400,000 bales, she haspower to manufacture fifty times that quantity. See chapter onwater powers elsewhere. The choice between w^ater power and steam is determined by thecomparative economy in the use of either the one or the other. Inmany cases there will be n
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