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the second story ; and, rising in a balcony from above the 

 eves, also affords a stairway and entrance into the cock- 

 loft, which is lighted in the roof, and is nearly equal to a 

 third-story. 



The water is brought in a mile-long canal, and falls 

 upon two wheels from a forty-feet head. 



The cotton is taken into the warehouse from wagons 

 in the street, and passes some hundred feet from there 

 on a railroad into the picker-room, in a stone building 

 separate from the main one, and from thence, by the 

 gradual stages of manufacture, upon the most beautiful 

 and perfect machiney that modern ingenuity and Yankee 

 skill can fashion, through the entire length of the build- 

 ing, and out at the other end in cloth, and up and away 

 into the store-house, corresponding to that of the cotton- 

 house, but well away, to make all safe from fire. Most 

 of the machinery is now in operation. When all is com- 

 plete there will be 9,245 spindles and 300 looms, all oper- 

 ated by three hundred men, girls, and boys, from twelve 

 years up, and whose wages average now three dollars a 

 week, most of them working by the piece. They are all 

 natives of the "piney woods," except a few experienced 

 overseers and superintendent. 



This mill will consume about ten bales a day and turn 

 out ten or twelve thousand yards of thirty and thirty-six 

 inch No. 14 shirtings and drillings. 



The monthly statement ending April 14f/i shotvs — 

 $2,995 62 paid for labor. 



