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Show j j THE MAN WHO-SAW WHO-SAW TOMORROW , s M1 1 L SL IlTEB. Samuel Slater has taken his place In history as the man who saw tomorrow to-morrow and the future of tho American Amer-ican eloth-makihg industry He came to this country with nothing but un unbounded faith In his vision and R pood memory and by uelng both founded the first cotton mill In the United States. Cotton had been under successful cultivation in America for only about 13 years and they were still picking the seeds out by hand w hen he learned learn-ed in that the Pennsylvania legislator! leg-islator! had offered a reward of 100 pounds .sterling to th -nan who could Invent a carding machine. This is the machine that pulls the cotton apart. BO It can DC spun Into yarn. At that time England would not only not allow the export of any ktnd of ma-chinerv ma-chinerv to the colonb-s. but wouldn't allow "anybody to take tho plans out with them. Slater could see that If America could grow cotton it could weave It and he succeeded in reaching tbls country. A friend, Moses Brown of I-rovldence. R. I , financed him. and the first drawings for machinery wero made from memory. A mill was started at PawtUOket, R I.. In 1790 Ho not only started tho firm mill but he saw ahead to tho possibilities of both cotton and woolen manufacture manufac-ture in America and before tie died he had mills in a half dozen places in New England. It was duo largely o his toreslght that cotton and woolen manufacturing became tho loading industries in-dustries of New England. His success suc-cess brought about tho tremendous expansion of cotton raising In the south. |