Southern shield., 1858-10-09
Planters Testimonials.

The following letter to the patentees of the Eclipse Cotton Gin from one of the largest Plan ters in Mississippi, is high testimonial of it's value:
 OXFORD, Miss, April ?, 1858. Messrs. PAYNE WILsON-Dear Sirs: Yours of the 23d inst. propounding various inquiries aS to the performance of the Improved Eclipse Gin Stand I bought of you is at hand.
 h answer 1 have to say that 1 am well pleased with the Gin, and consider it a valuable improve ment, as 1t protects the gin saws from coming in contact with the hulls or other hard substances they must perform much longer without injury or sharpening also the sample Is much better from not having cut up the hull or other substances to be thrown into the lint-rOOm with the cotton. l could not say what the difference in value was be- tween the cotton ginned on the old stand and the one purchased from you, but there was quite perceptible difference; but aS 1t was somewhat mixed in the room and want of proper care Tn bailing it out, l could rot get the sales so man. aged as to give 1t satisfactory difference ln price, but am we'll enough satisfied to order another stand for my other plantation at the same price. do not consider that the draft is perceptibly ln- creased if any. nor did we find any difficulty III running it, or that 1t was more liable to get out of order than other gins managed by negroes. 1 wish you to make me an so saw gin-stand with the Improvements, and have 1t ready by the last of August. Yours, very respectfully.
 N B.-I think we ginned from to 4 ba.es per dav on my Gin 59 saws. On trial 1t gimed at the rates of $50 lbs per hour of very hully cotton of last picking. The balance of the crop ginned with it was between 90 and 100 bales. J. E.
 MEMPHIS, December 10. 1858. This is to certify that ! have tried Wilson < Payne's Gin. and find 1t superior to any Gin ! have ever tried. It makes better sam lie of cot ton, and relieves itself of trash aGd bolls n very superior style, which cannot De described to one rot very we'll yersed in machinery,
 SAMUEL g. CRUTE.
 CoAHouA CoUxrY, Miss, Dec. 29, 1856. This is to certify that have seen Payne & Will sons improved Eclipse Gin in operationand have no hesitancy in pronouncing the best Gin for trashy cotton that have ever seen run. It separates the hull and all other hard substances from the cotton before it reaches the roll. It then gives sample equal if not superior to any other Gin.
 J. r. FERGUSON. r. $. have compared a sample of cotton from the improved Gin. with one from Gin of the same make, without the improvement, and think that the sample from the improved Gin is worth from one-half to one cent more than the other
 J.P. F.
 CoAHoNA COUNTY. Miss, January 3, 1857. This is to certify that I have been running Messrs. Wilson < Payne's improved Eclipse Glf | Stand some two weeks-a portion of the time or as bad cotton and as full of hulls as could well pc plcEed, and not one null out or huLuIeu mdu' its appearance in the roll. Indeed she will seiar ate all hard substances before going to the roll and makes sample over and above common Gin from fl to 34 of a cent per pound out oI this | hully cotton, and will gin from one to two bale more per day than any other gin ofmy knowledge of the same number of saws-to wit, 90 saws-out of this hully cotton, and l cannot detect tha she runs harder than any other 50 saw gin; out of clean cotton, she gives a superior sample Respectfully, your Ob' t servant
 N. K. LEAVELL. | During the time Messrs. Wilson & Payne's i'm proved Eclipse Cotton Gin has been running ay | Mir. \. K. Leavell's; hayeat different times wit messed the performance of said Gin, and do full4 | concur with the above certificate.
 Given under my hand this 9th of January, 1857 J. c. BRUOTON.