History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . estand most highly improved machinery and ismodern throughout. Its capacity will beabout 1 50,000 yards per day. The ProximityManufacturing Company, in their variousplants, are the largest individual consumersof indigo dye in the w^orld, using more thanone-third of the entire consumption in theUnited States. The system of four mills, of which theWhite Oak Mills are one, takes the raw cot-ton from the farms and gins and turns itinto finished cloth at the rate of 520,000yards per day. Allowing three yards ofclot
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . estand most highly improved machinery and ismodern throughout. Its capacity will beabout 1 50,000 yards per day. The ProximityManufacturing Company, in their variousplants, are the largest individual consumersof indigo dye in the w^orld, using more thanone-third of the entire consumption in theUnited States. The system of four mills, of which theWhite Oak Mills are one, takes the raw cot-ton from the farms and gins and turns itinto finished cloth at the rate of 520,000yards per day. Allowing three yards ofcloth to a garment, this represents the ma-terial for 173,333 garments per day, or52,000,000 per year. The Proximity Print Works, Proxmity Manufacturing Company,Revolution, and White Oak Mills, manufac-ture denims, indigo drills, khakis, printedshirtings, outing and canton flannels. Thesemills have been here described merely asillustrations of a larger group comprisingtwelve mills, all represented by the ConeExport & Commission Company. Theothers rnd ihsir products aic: The Ashe-. CFASAR CON1 ville Cotton Mills. Asheville, 11 C. cham-brays and cottonades; Cliffside Mills, , N. C, staple ginghams; Dacotah CottonMills. Lexington, N. C, chambrays; McAdenMills, McAdensville, N. C, outing flannels,chambrays an^ plaids; Minneola Manufac-turing Co , Gib-onville, N. C, outing flan-nels; Salisbur C~tton Mills, Salisbury, N. C,tickings and chambrays; Sidney CottonMills, Graham., N. C, plaids; Eno CottonMills, Hllsboro, N C, chambrays, shirtingsand hickoriea; Ha nes Mills, Cliffside, N. C,ginghams. Both Moses H. Cone and Ceaser Conehave passed on—Ceasar Cone died March1, 191 7—but they built secure foundationsand left an organization which has notpaured in the fulf:lnicnt of its appointedtaslis. 213 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. GARFIELD WORSTED MILLS The Gai-field \Vor;te-] Mills of Garfield,New Jersey, began busness in 1 902 v/ith acapital stock of $125,000, and a plantconsis
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