182 CLARKE COUNTY. 



Early Settlers. — Robert Barber, Rev. Hope Hull, A. 

 Boggs, Jesse White, Gen. Meriwether, Thomas Mitchell, 

 Joseph and John Espey, and Esley. 

 Manufactures — 



Athens Manufacturing Company, capital, $92,600 

 Spindles, . . . 2,500 



Looms, .... 40 



Operatives, mostly females, 85 



Overseers, ... 3 



Expenses per month, . 8800 



Goods manufactured per day, 1500 yards. 

 Bunches of yarn, . " 100 



- Machinery made in N. Jersey, cost $60,000 

 Amount of goods sold in Jan. 1848, $7,589 86 

 Aug. " $5,172 60 

 Goods sold mostly in the surrounding country. Some sent 

 to Augusta, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans. 

 Osnaburgs, stripes, bed-ticking, linsey-woolsey. Wages of 

 operatives from five to twelve dollars per month. Situated 

 within the limits of Athens. 



Princeton Manufacturing Company, capital $54,000, or- 

 ganized in 1836, and purchased by the present company, in 

 1845. Situated two miles S. W. of Athens, on the middle 

 branch of the Oconee. 



Cotton spindles, ' . . . . 2184 



Wool do. .... 240 



Looms, . ..... 45 



Bales of cotton used per week, . . 21 



Yards of cloth made per day, . 1700 



Bundles of yarn " . . 90 



Mattresses made per year, . . 100 



The goods manufactured are shirtings, bed-ticking, linsey- 

 woolsey, jeans, checks, quality very superior ; sent through 

 Georgia, and to N. Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, New- York 

 and Philadelphia. Operatives healthy. The company make ar- 

 rangements to have divine service at the factory twice a month, 

 and have provided a library for the operatives. This estab- 

 ment reflects credit upon the spirited owners. 



Mars Hill factory, situated on Barber's creek, seven miles 



