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day of 12 hours work. Number of spindles 2,280 and 43 

 looms, making 8-ounce Osnaburg and bundle yarn. Hands 

 employed, 11 men, 50 to 60 girls from 10 to 25 years, and 

 balance boys, from 12 to 20 years of age. Capital in the 

 factory and buildings and lands, counted at cost, on a 

 second-hand purchase by General Jones,^ the present 

 owner, $30,000 and floating capital $20,000. The build- 

 ing is granite 40 feet by 80, four stories high, with a 

 room in roof equal to three fourths of a story, and stair- 

 way in projecting tower. The picking room separate, 

 20 feet by 40. The machinery not of most modern kind, 

 as some of it has been in use 17 years. In 1848, the 

 wheel run 283 V^ days, and used 367,404 lbs. of cotton, 

 excluding waste, costing 6 cents 7.388 mills per pound, 

 making $24,758.81, and made 71,615 lbs. of yarn that 

 netted 14 cents per pound, and 295,789 lbs. of cloth, or 

 591,57914 yards that netted 7 cents per yard. The details 

 of cost of this was, for 6,895 14 days' picking, &c., 

 $2,268.39, or 6.175 mills per pound. 



mills per lb. 

 7,922 days' spinning, 

 2,246 " spooling & warping 1.406 

 1,4501/4 " dressing, 



569 " drawing in, 

 4,937% " weaving, 



562 " trimming & baling, 

 1,114 " hanking and 



bundling yarn, 4.953 354.75 



840% " machinist, watch, roller coverer, 

 and all extra 

 work, 1.559mills per lb., 572.90 



making the cost of labor put upon cloth, to 2 

 cents 9.361 mills per lb., or 1 cent 4.681 mills per 



'James Jones, born October 3, 1805; died October 20, 1865. Prac- 

 ticed law at Edgefield. Served in the Seminole and Civil wars. 

 Held many state offices. The Vaucluse factory is said to have been 

 the first cotton factory in South Carolina. See Chapman, John A., 

 History of Edgefield County from the Earliest Settlements to 1897, 

 382-84 (Newberry, S. C, 1897). 



