Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1883 — Increase of Southern Cotton Mills. [ARTICLE]

Increase of Southern Cotton Mills.

Southern cotton mills increase remarkably. During the last four months of the year they took 180,000 bales of staple, an increase of thirty per cent, from 1881, the northern mills took bat 9284268 showing an actual decrease of nine per cent