Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama Part 4

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The South is the field for the manufacture of coa.r.s.e cotton goods, and no other section of the country can compete with it on these products. This has been fully determined, and is no longer an open question. These goods are standard and the demand for them world wide. Thousands of bales of domestic goods have been s.h.i.+pped during the year from Southern mills to China and j.a.pan. As stated above, the South is the field for cotton mills, and Montgomery is the most available point in the South for the establishment of such industries.

TALLa.s.sEE FALLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

The Talla.s.see Falls Manufacturing Co's Cotton Mills are situated at Talla.s.see, a small town contiguous to and contributory to Montgomery. The main building, of stone, is 220 feet long by 50 feet wide, five stories, with an L 60 feet, six stories, and a wing 116 feet by 60 feet, four stories high, containing about 20,000 spindles and 330 looms.

These mills manufacture cotton brown goods, consuming 7,500 to 8,000 bales cotton annually.

The officers of the company are, John W. Durr, President; James A. Farley, Treasurer, and Wm. H. Micou, Jr., Secretary. Their residences are at Montgomery, where the princ.i.p.al office of the company is located. The officers at the mills are, A. J. Milstead, Superintendent; A. J. n.o.ble, a.s.sistant Treasurer, Talla.s.see, Ala.

The mills are run by water-power, are equipped with the latest improved machinery, and lighted by an 800 light Edison electric light plant.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Cotton Mills of the Talla.s.see Falls Manufacturing Co.]

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