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yard, and the cost of labor on yarn 1 cent 9.62 

 mills per lb., to which add as above, cost of cot- 

 ton, and 743 gallons of oil equal to 2.471 mills 

 per lb. of cotton, 908.03 



Contingencies which include materials, com- 

 missions, insurance upon $20,000, &c., and is 

 equal to 1 cent 1.305 mills per lb. of cotton, 4,153.39 



Transportation on cotton yarn and cloth 3.856 



mills per lb., 1,416.73 



73 barrels of flour for sizing, chargeable to cost 



of cloth 1.092 mills per lb. 323.20 



48 reams of paper, chargeable to cost of yarn, 



1.156 mills per lb., 82.80 



Interest on $50,000 capital, 7 per cent, 9.526 



mills per lb., of cot., 3,500.00 



Net profits above all cost and interest as above, 7,826.81 



Total cost of cloth per lb, 12 cents 4.999 mills, 

 or 6 cents 2.499 mills per yard. 



Total cost of yarn, 11 cents 5.322 mills per lb. 



One fourth of the cotton used was short staple Nankin, 

 and made into striped Osnaburgs. All cloth 31 inches 

 wide, 8 oz. to the yard. Average daily consumption of 

 cotton, 1,298 lbs. 



All the hands, except a few men who are unmarried, 

 and all that can, work by the piece. Families all live in 

 factory houses, rent free, and cultivate all the land they 

 choose to fence. General Jones has been here nine years, 

 and no case of fever among hands. The mill stopt a few 

 days last year on account of pneumonia among the opera- 

 tives. The General has tried both and gives preference 

 to white labor. At Saluda Factory, near Columbia, all 

 operatives are black. DeKalb Factory, at Camden, has 

 1,680 spindles and 40 looms, 93 hands ; two thirds white 

 and one third black. Average 1,200 lbs. of yarn and 

 cloth a day, one third yarn and two thirds 8-ounce Osna- 

 burgs. Used last year 353,681 lbs. cotton and made 

 90,145 lbs of yarn and 234,055 lbs. of cloth — running 



