[40] Theckston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[41] Theckston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[42] Clark, in South in Building of Nation, Vol. V., p. 321. Cf. Kohn, Cotton Mills of South Carolina, giving quotation from Columbia Telescope.
[43] Charlotte News, Ibid. The McDonald Mill at Concord during the Civil War dealt in barter. A gentleman in a nearby town told the writer that he remembered as a boy trading a load of corn for yarn to be woven by the women at home. (Theodore Klutz, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.) In 1862 the Confederate government commandered the Batesville factory in South Carolina, and took nearly all of the product. That portion which was allowed to private purchasers was always sold by ten o'clock in the morning. (Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.)
[44] Thompson, pp. 48-9.
[45] Tompkins, Cotton Mill, Commercial Features, pp. 183-4.
[46] Walter Montgomery, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 5th, 1916.
[47] Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12th, 1916.
[48] John W. Fries, interview, Winston-Salem, N.C., Aug. 31, 1916.
Another with a broad view of the history of the industry in the South was willing to include in a similar statement the Graniteville mill about which a good deal of controversy has clustered: "The cotton mills in the South before the war were third-rate affairs. I speak of Graniteville and Batesville and such plants as these. I remember my mother's telling me that the warp ... used to be supplied by the mills for use in the homes of the housewives. They were not regular cotton mills as the plants of later establishment have come to be." (W. W. Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 1, 1917.)