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Show At the three factories in and near Columbus, Georgia, about twenty-nine thousand cotton and woolen spindles are in operation. They employ about eight hundred persons and consume some seventeen bales of cotton per day. Directly and indirectly these establishments es-tablishments give support to at least two thousand five hundred persons. In addition to those mentioned, there is one mill, furnished with two thousand five hundred spindles, which is not in operation. The Columbus hosiery manufactory man-ufactory is now manufacturing one hundred hun-dred and twenty pairs of stockings per hour. It employs twenty hands. It will be greatly improved and enlarged with time. The machinery is run by the motive power of the Eagle and Phenix mills. |