UPSON COUNTY. 575 



Flour used per week . . . 700 pounds. 



Corn Meal, " .... 20 bushels. 



Coffee, " ... 50 pounds. 



Molasses, " .... 20 gallons. 



Tobacco used' by men, women and 



children, 20 lbs. per week. 



No provision is made for the education of the children. 

 The character of the operatives is distinguished by the usual 

 traits that mark the poor, uneducated class of this country. 

 Of the whole population of the village, which amounts to 240, 

 there are not 20 who can either read or write. They are 

 much inferior in moral deportment to the operatives of New 

 England, where the laws make provision for their education, 

 yet their condition is much improved. Nearly all the families 

 residing here, are those who have been driven by necessity to 

 engage their children to work in the mills, whose toil on some 

 worn-out or barren piece of ground w^as not sufficient to sup- 

 ply their wants. 



Flint river factory, owned by Walker & Grant. 



Spindles, 1,560 



Cards, ..... 16 



Looms, ..... 26 



Pounds of cotton used per day, . 700 



Operatives, .... 50 



Thomaston factory, on Potato creek, a mile and a half 

 from Thomaston, owned by Rogers & Turner. 



Spindles, ..... 1,260 



Cards, ..... 16 



Looms, ..... 24 



Operatives, .... 50 



Pounds of cotton used per day, . 700 



At this factory the advantages of church and Sunday 

 school instruction are afforded to the operatives. 



Another factory will soon be erected, as well as a paper- 

 mill. 



