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wheels, a saw and grist mill, a hotel, and 9,000 acres of 

 land, all cost $300,000, or $32.44 for each spindle. The 

 mills in Lowell, cost from $35 to $38 a spindle. A steam 

 mill at Salem, Mass, cost $21 a spindle for 30,000 spin- 

 dles, not including dwellings for operatives. 



The details of cost at Graniteville are as follows : — 



Real estate, $ 12,222.35 



Canals and dams, 9,505.46 



Factory buildings, 60,144.57 



Water wheels and flumes, 6,949.12 



Shafting and gearing, 12,663.99 



Machinery, 121,754.03 



Fire and steam apparatus, 5,947.65 



Starting up mill, and furniture, 3,587.96 



Saw mill, machine shop, &c., 9,079.86 



Cord clothing, 3,010.00 



Dwelling houses, 43,293.18 



Streets and fences, 1,998.80 



Contingencies not yet carried to proper ac- 

 count 3,307.49 



Margin left for future expenditures, 6,539.57 



Total $300,000.00 



The building is warmed by steam pipes as all should be. 



There is a new factory at Augusta, Georgia, contain- 

 ing about the same amount of machinery, 208 feet long, 

 50 wide, and five stories high. The stairways of each are 

 in projecting towers in front. Both of these are operated 

 with white laborers, natives to the soil. These will con- 

 sume ten bales a day and turn out 10 to 12,000 yards, of 

 30 and 36-inch sheetings and drillings. Cotton costs now 

 QYi. cents delivered. Average wages of all the men, 

 women, and children, at Graniteville, in April last, $3.05 

 a week. Most of work done by the piece. Number of 

 hands, 300. 



At Vaucluse, on the same stream, the number of hands 

 94. Average wages, through last year 37.85 cents per 



