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Subject: [SCDILLON] Cotton pickin' re: Meredith.Page
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:36:53 EST

Hi Meredith......good to hear from you! I have been off here for a long time.
Hope my coming back doesn't cause too much of a commmotion.

Where did the folks pick cotton? Cotton came into the Dillon mills in bales,
often by train and sometimes by flat bed truck, apparently the latter bales
having been cotton baled in Dillon. The Dillon mills were known as "spinning
mills" inasmuch as spinning was the last process, usually, before the thread
was shipped out to cloth-making mills. The baled cotton was put into
"picking" machines that tore it apart and made roping out of it. It then went
through several other processed including "slubbing" , "spooling",
"twisting" and "spinning" before being packed, "humidified" and shipped.
Later on the Maple Mill started making what was called "warping" which was, I
think, sent to carpet mills. After the cotton mills shut down, someone tried
to reopen one of them and do some kind of process with goat hair. Younger
people now call the cotton mill the "goat mill". Input from goat mill workers
is also solicited.

But if your people picked cotton in the Dillon area or picked cotton that was
shipped to the Dillon mills, their stories certainly would be of interest.

Eddie

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