Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ing on the fields and the gins were not forthcoming,the planters had rough gins made in their own blacksmith shops. Whitneyreceived from South Carolina, as the price of the State rights, $50,000;from North Carolina about $30,000, and from Tennessee about $10,000,his royalties in the Southern States thus amounting to $90,000, a veryconsiderable sum in those days. In Georgia, priority of inv
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ing on the fields and the gins were not forthcoming,the planters had rough gins made in their own blacksmith shops. Whitneyreceived from South Carolina, as the price of the State rights, $50,000;from North Carolina about $30,000, and from Tennessee about $10,000,his royalties in the Southern States thus amounting to $90,000, a veryconsiderable sum in those days. In Georgia, priority of invention wasclaimed for a gin invented by Mr. Joseph Watkins, a planter of that machine consisted in part of a wooden cylinder in which wereinserted short spikes or teeth of iron wire, and Georgia refused to pay aroyalty to Whitney, who, nevertheless, brought twenty-seven suits for in-fringement of his patent in Savannah, Ga.; of these, a decree for perpetualinjunction was issued against Arthur Fort and John Powell; a verdict wasgranted against Charles Gachel for $1500 and against Isaiah Carter for$2000; judgment in default was allowed in one case; in two cases there PLATE II—Cotton Ginning. 1. The Churka. 2. The Bow. 3. Whitneys Remodeled, 4. Eagle Hand Power. 5. Primitive Cotton Press. 6. Munger Huller. 7. Munger System Outfit. JAMES H LAMB CO. OF THE UNITED STATES 23 was a verdict for the defendant, and the rest of the actions were non-suited or dismissed. Whether the saw-gin was due wholly to the inventive genius ofWhitney or of Holmes, or whether the machine is partially the work ofeach, is a moot point to-day. The time was ripe for the invention of thesaw-gin, it was brought into being and completely revolutionized the cotton-manufacturing trade of America and of Great Britain, and built up theSouthern States on a basis of agricultural prosperity. To give some ideaof the speedy transformation of the business of producing cotton formanufacturing purposes, note
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