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- Cotton Mill
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- Southwest Textiles was
located in south Abernathy on the east 1-27 service road. This
open-end spinning mill started production January 1, 1967. The
original "ring spinning" machines were replaced by
more modern machines in 1974. The plant was expanded in 1982.
The mill ran twenty-four hours per day, six days per week, being
closed on Sunday, with the fifty-five employees working in three
eight-hour shifts.
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- All the cotton used at
the mill was grown on the High Plains, mostly Hale County and
Lubbock County.
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- The mill produced 10,000
pounds of yarn per day, using about 6,000 bales of cotton per
year. This 100% cotton yarn was used for making cotton work gloves
and cotton tube socks. The yarn was sold to manufacturers in
North Carolina, Indiana, South Carolina, California, Georgia,
Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
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- When the mill started,
four local businessmen, Joe Thompson, Bill Wolf, Andy Reid, and
Rudolph Struve, were the owners.
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- The mill closed its doors
for the last time in 2003. It was then dismantled and shipped
overseas.
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