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by slave labor, at comparatively no cost, is for fifteen plant- 
ers to take $4,000 each in stock, select a site for the mill 
near their plantations, detail three men from each, making 
a building force of forty-five men, besides an overseer and a 
general manager, one of the stockholders. With this force, 
and as many teams as may be necessary, they will proceed 
to put up three rooms of twenty-five feet by sixty feet, of 
wood, one story bigh, of coarse, strong, undressed lumber, 
such as tbey can readily prepare from the forest, without 
an outlay of capital. Add at convenient distances fifteen or 
twenty cabins, and the buildings for the mill are up. This 
wooden, one-story plan for the cotton field possesses the 
advantages of costing nothing, of fixing and running the 
whole machinery upon the ground, making it more steady 
and accessible, and avoiding wear and tear, with better 
ventilation, less noise, and perhaps less risk from fire, 
because it is not the walls of a mill, but the cotton about 
machinery, which is liable to bum. 
"We see no good reason why the views of Mr. Cockrill 
may not be adopted by our planters, and we commend 
them to the serious consideration of all our readers who 
feel a real interest in the prosperity of the country. 
We are happy to state in this place that the number of 
cotton manufacturers in the South is now greatly on the 
increase. Georgia seems to be taking the lead. Nearly 
one hundred mills will be in operation in the old Empire 
State by the first of November next. 
Mississippi, too, is building large factories. About 
twenty are already erected, and several more projected. 
Alabama has about thirty; North Carolina, thirty-five; 
South Carolina, twenty-five ; Tennessee, thirty-five ; Louis- 
iana, five ; Texas and Arkansas not heard from. 
