True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1837-03-27
TpANSpopTS WANTED.

TRANSPORTS WANTED.
A NUMBER of vessels of Light draught OF water ana
N. wanted as Government Transports. They are TO
be at Fort Brooke Hillsborough bay ny the ioth OF
Apr next well provided with floors or lumber tor the
same, with wood and water, and all Other necessary
70 transportation of Troops or Indians
Written proposals stating the tonnage, drausht' gem
era character of each vessel and the price per head
from Fort Brooke to this place. taking steam up me
Mississippi, will be received by MAJOR j. Clark ASST
ant Quater Master U. s. Army, until the evening oil the
oath inst.
Also, for number of transports MS above for tranbe
porting troops from Fort Brooke to Palachcoa, to
at Fort Brooke the 10th of April next.
u : ~ QUARTER MASTERS OFFICE,
New Orleans March %, 1887.
ORDERS RECEIVED FOR
JONES' Pa TENT COTTON GIN,
BY the Ptenee No. s. Magazine street, New Orleans.
TO BE MANUFACTURED IN NEW YORK BY
ROBERT HOE co.
SC.aLE OF PRICES-Do,ble Gins.
For double Gin of so saws more on each
cylinder, making 60 s,ws in the stand, -.
with feeders bands, &c. at Sc per saw, or $500 w
For II l,oube Gin OF 60 sa VS. on cylinder,
or 100 saws in the stand feeders, &c. at
sc per saw, or 72o 90
For d =, of 40 saws do or 80 saws ina
stand, at So d per saw, SOU w
For do. of ~ saws do. 40 saws in
stand, at 81. SO per saw, or 2oo w
SINGLE GINS.
For single gin of 80 saws or more, with
one set OF feeders bands, &c. at Sc per
SAW, $fSo w
For 10. of 60 saws witt, feeders, Sc. at Sc
50 per saw, 39o W
For do. of 40 saws, with feeders, &c. at Sc
For do of 20 SAWS with feeders, &c. 81
SO per saw, l'o VI
Extra teeth where desired, for feeders, supplied al
40 cents each; the number oil teeth being about equal
to the number OF saws. One of feeders it is
Ill ,s,l M, Vpyn vii Wp1 M
sows. Extra SAWS supplied at 50 cents each.
The Gins ordered, will be delivered 10 the agents o.
planters in a-of the port towns Of the cotton plan
ting States, at .le above rces, the agents paying '
freight on the same from New York, and becoming re-
sponaiblc for the amount OF the Gin A Gin virgil
will be sent with the Gins To pit them up where dc
sired; the charges for whose services will be extra, bu
moderate.
on reasonable terms, but will be charged extra. Hors
power ofany description, be fu nisled on lik
terms. Small steam engines also be ordered de
| sired.
1t is desirable, when planters give orders for Gin.
they should accompany them with their views in regar
to the arrangement of saws, breasts, brushes, &c.
is found they differ in opinion Some desire SAVE
larger diameter than others. The most common sz
is . or 10 inches; but some wish them IL inches. Som
wish or of brushes axle, while others d
not want more than at most Some wish saws with
or 0 teeth to the inch, while others want 10 or II
With so much discrepancy, we prefer they should,
the time of giving orders, furnish statement of the
wishes, and the manufacturers can fulfil them in eve,
.cular. Where it is left discretion, sII.
make them on the most modern and approved pla
An order be executed, from the time it is receive
in the space of eight nine weeks, and the Gin in III
time placed in the hands of the factor. To be in
Tor the crop all orders ought to be in the hands
the manufacturers by the first middle of May;
for plantations where they are late in commencing
pick or gin cotton
I ~ b. The Patent Right, for any Of the cett
growing States, will be sold on reasonable terms.
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