. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. urg ledall the other counties in the amount of this tax. In 1803,the tax amounted to only 182 pounds. In 1804, Mecklen-burg paid 212 pounds, and Lincoln county was second in theState with 56 pounds. In 1805, the tax amounted to 213pounds, and Mecklenburg continued at the head of the list ofcotton producing counties. This first cotton gin was a prim-itive affair, being nothing more extensive than a box aboutthree feet long, two feet high, and two feet wide. Insidethe box was the simple machinery that separated the se
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. urg ledall the other counties in the amount of this tax. In 1803,the tax amounted to only 182 pounds. In 1804, Mecklen-burg paid 212 pounds, and Lincoln county was second in theState with 56 pounds. In 1805, the tax amounted to 213pounds, and Mecklenburg continued at the head of the list ofcotton producing counties. This first cotton gin was a prim-itive affair, being nothing more extensive than a box aboutthree feet long, two feet high, and two feet wide. Insidethe box was the simple machinery that separated the seedfrom the lint about five times as fast as it could be done byhand. The principal feature of Whitneys original modelwas a wooden cylinder carrying annular rows of wire spikes,which was subsequently superseded by Holmes improve-ment, which consisted of shaft carrying collars separatingcircular saws, which passed through narrow spaces betweenribs, through which the seed could not pass. Authority:—State and County Records, and Photographsand far similes of Original CHAPTER XX. EFFECT OF SLAVERY ON INDUSTRIES. Occupations of First Settlers and the Causes—They Made All TheyUsed—Slavery Induced Them to Turn Their Entire Attention toAgriculture—Comfortable and Peaceable Conditions Prevailed. It is a well established fact that contentment is not con-ducive to progress. People who are satisfied with their con-dition in life have no desire to go forward, or to explorenew and untried fields of endeavor. The settlers of thiscounty came here because of dissatisfaction with conditionsexisting where they had been living, and they were, there-fore, willing to risk what little they possessed for a chanceof winning more. They built their rude homes in the for-est, and were eager to accept any device or any phase of in-dustry that would tend to economize labor or to simplify thedifficulties of their existence. These first citizens became mechanics, carpenters and trad-ers. They
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