[235] July 30, 1881.
[236] Quoted in News and Courier, Apr. 25, 1881.
[237] Ibid., Apr. 9, 1881. The Batesville Cotton Factory, built by William Bates forty years before, was bought by G. Putnam, of Massachusetts for $8,000, and he invested $10,000 additional in the plant. The building was frame, two and half stories high, all was burned in March of 1881, catching from sparks from the boiler room. It was believed that Mr. Putnam would rebuild the plant on better lines. (Ibid., Mar. 2, 1881, et seq.)
[238] Ibid., July 11, 1881.
[239] Ibid., Nov. 10, 1881.
[240] News and Courier, July 11, 1881.
[241] Ibid., Jan. 14, 1882.
[242] News and Courier, Jan. 12 and 14, 1882. When the Sibley Manufacturing Company of Augusta, Georgia, was increasing its capital by $400,000, President W. C. Sibley received from Boston a telegram ordering $20,000 of the new stock. (News and Courier May 21, 1881.) Cf. Thompson.
[243] News and Courier, Apr. 6, 1881.
[244] Ibid., Mch. 15, 1881.