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sey, colored bishop, for help to start an insti- 

 tution for the preparation of colored teachers 

 and preachers. The work is being actively 

 pushed. The college will be situated at Au- 

 gusta, Ga. Dr. James E. Evans, one of the 

 oldest and most esteemed ministers of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has been 

 appointed commissioner, to raise the requisite 

 funds; and Dr. Morgan Callaway, Vice- Presi- 

 dent of Emory College, has accepted the presi- 

 dency of the "Paine Institute," as the new 

 college will be called, in honor of Bishop 

 Paine, who, in 1870, organized the " Colored 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in America." 

 Part of the trustees of the institute are white, 

 appointed by the bishops of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, South, and part colored, ap- 

 pointed by the colored bishop. This is a re- 

 markable movement, proving that the relations 

 between the whites and blacks are not as un- 

 friendly as many suppose. 



MANUFACTURES, ETC. The " New South " 

 has made wonderful progress in manufactures 

 during the past few years, and Georgia is in the 

 lead in this respect. Cotton goods are necessa- 

 rily the chief manufacture; but iron-foundries, 

 oil-mills, shoe-factories, etc., etc., have sprung 

 up in various parts of the State, and they are 

 all prosperous. The Atlanta Cotton Exposition 

 of 1881 has given a great impetus to manufac- 

 turing industry. The principal cotton-factories 

 are situated at Augusta and Columbus, the 

 former using the water-power supplied by the 

 canal, and the latter the water of the Chatta- 

 hoochee River. The factories now in opera- 

 tion at Augusta are: The Augusta Factory, 

 capital $1,000,000 ; consumes annually 13,084 

 bales of cotton ; number of looms, 779 ; num- 

 ber of spindles, 26,000; producing 15,500,000 

 yards of goods. The Enterprise Factory, capi- 

 tal $650,000, consumes 12,000 bales ; number 

 of looms, 900 ; number of spindles, 30,000 ; 

 producing 13,000,000 yards. The Sibley Mills, 

 capital $1,000,000, consuming 13,000 bales; 

 number of looms, 800 ; number of spindles, 

 30,000 ; producing 1 2,000,000 yards. The Sum- 

 merville Mills, capital $100,000, consuming 

 1,500 bales; number of looms, 150 ; number of 

 spindles, 4,000; producing 2,250,000 yards. The 

 Globe (private enterprise), consuming 2,000 

 bales; number of spindles, 5,800, producing 

 warps and yarns. Riverside Waste-Works 

 (private), consuming 2,000 bales; number of 

 spindles, 2,400, producing warps and yarns. 

 Sterling Mills (private), consuming 1,000 bales ; 

 number of spindles, 2,800, producing warps 

 and yarns ; and Goodrich (private), consuming 

 600 bales ; number of spindles, 2,000, producing 

 warps and yarns. The John P. King Mills, in 

 process of construction, and nearly complete, 

 have a capital of $1,000,000, and will run 750 

 looms and 25,000 spindles. Total number of 

 looms, 3,379 ; of spindles, 128,000 ; of bales 

 of cotton consumed during the year, 57,100. 

 As evidence of the prosperity of these facto- 

 ries it is only necessary to see the profits which 



they have divided annually for several years. 

 The Augusta Factory, the oldest and best 

 known, has paid in cash dividends from 1865 

 to 1882, $1,467,000, or about two and a half 

 times its capital. Besides this, it has a surplus 

 of between $340,000 and $350,000, or over 50 

 per cent of its capital. Its stock is worth $170 

 per share. 



The Augusta Crescent and Excelsior Flour 

 Mills manufactured during the year 140,000 

 barrels of flour, valued at $1,050,000, and 

 750,000 bushels of meal, valued at $637,500. 

 Another large and growing industry at Augusta 

 is the Georgia Chemical Works, with a capital 

 of $200,000, for the manufacture of fertilizers. 

 They made and sold during the year 15,000 

 tons, half of which amount was ammoniated 

 and half acid phosphate. Kone but the high- 

 est grades are made by this factory. A factory 

 has been built and is in operation at Kirkwood, 

 near Atlanta, where sulphuric acid is made out 

 of the iron pyrites, thousands of tons of which 

 are scattered over the rocky hills, and at a 

 much less cost than it could be produced from 

 the imported sulphur. In immediate prox- 

 imity to these works are two fertilizer-facto- 

 ries, a cotton-seed-oil mill, and works for the 

 reduction of copper. 



The principal factories at Columbus are: 

 The Eagle and Phoenix Mills, capital $1,250,- 

 000, running 45,710 spindles and 1,600 looms, 

 making 100 varieties of goods ; the Colum- 

 bus Manufacturing Company, capital $263,000, 

 running 4,156 spindles and 136 looms, making 

 sheetings and domestics; Muscogee Manufac- 

 turing Company, capital $157,000, running 

 5,000 spindles and 240 looms, making cotton- 

 ades and domestics ; the Steam Cotton Mills, 

 capital $30,000, running 3,000 spindles, making 

 yarn and thread ; the Excelsior Mills, capital 

 $25,000, running 96 looms, making checks and 

 plaids; and A. Clegg & Co., capital $10,000, 

 running 48 looms, making checks and stripes. 

 Besides the above, there are at Columbus a jute- 

 factory, turning out 2,000 yards of bagging 

 daily ; iron-works, plow-factory, two large 

 flour-mills, a trunk-factory, a clothing-factory, 

 a paper-box factory and a gas-light company, 

 with an aggregate capital of $2,043,500. There 

 is a cotton-factory at Atlanta, three at Athens, 

 and other small mills in other parts of the 

 State. From the large dividends paid to their 

 stockholders by those that are well managed, 

 and the large sums added annually to the sur- 

 plus fund, after liberal expenditures for new 

 buildings, machinery, repairs, etc., these in- 

 dustries have proved unusually profitable dur- 

 ing the year. A number of cotton-seed-oil 

 mills have been started, or are being built. 

 Broom-factories, works for the manufacture 

 of wooden -ware, ice-factories, carriage and 

 wagon factories, and a number of other indus- 

 tries some pretentious from large capital, 

 others quite modest have sprung into exist- 

 ence, making Georgia's claim to be a manu- 

 facturing State incontestable. 



