Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-07-21
United States Patent, April, 1865.


TIME nIoyc Gu, represents three of tliG
Button and three Of the Buckle lie, as they
appear on u bale of Cotton.
The hoops are cut to lengths OF TO- io,G ann ~ iee'
Ten feet are most generally used, but lo and arc
sometimes required for large bales The buckles arc
fastened to the hoops the buttons VIII be put NJ IN
small boxes.
THE WEIGHT rs ABOUT 10 POUNDS
TO THE BALE OF COTTON.
NJ, Button Tie was the tifst offered for sale to any
extent in the SOUTH and has been used by thousands
OF planters with universal approval have made
valuable improvement in the shape of the Tuition
sl ce it was first introduced and have also procured
a patent for u BUCKLE TIE which for simplicity,
facility and expedition of adjustment TO bales of any
or of unequal sizes and for security in holding, Is,
think superior TO any offered to the public.
The advantage of iron rope for baling cotton
ore y,y universally snowledged. II holds the bale
I'm n much smaller compass; is applied aud fastened
ith as much facility both in the country pressing
and the repressing at the scaports lessons immense
Nv the risk from fire Is stronger, ana It's strength Id
not impaired by time and exposure as /, that OF rope
This last advantage has been strkipgiy manifested
during the war Thousands of bales OF cotton have
been lost by the rotting and breaking OF rope, whch
could haze been preserved IL Iron hoops had been
uscd In addition to this, 1t can be furnished cheap
CIR than Rope. The arrangement oflator in hehe'np
growing States has reduced the supply OF hemp TO
snch an extent to prices to rule unprece'le'
ly high; inlcedra suiiciency for baling moderate
cotton crop cannot be relied on at any price.
have arranged for the importation oil q large
quantity of the very best English Iron, aud have
made arrangements with Messrs. Chambers Lat
ting forthe sale and delivery of my Ties.
ship Refuge, n. Orleans, July IL, 'Jc.
II, FASSMAS, Orleans Cotton Press:.
sIR:--In january last received from your Press
I0ss bales Of cotton which about 1000 bales we're
Compressed and bonnd with your new "Iron fic,'-
can safely affirm that the cotton so bound was re-
ceyed in better order than II generally comes irm
Tho Presses that IL slowed BETTER and enabled the
ship to carry more than on any previous voyage:
The cotton when discharged frcm the ship in Liver
pool was in better order than the rope-bound cotton
Ii is highly preferable for GROUND ter as the damp
arising from the ballast hs no effect upon 1t, for is
we'll known by practical men that dampness viii rot
the Rope. bound can confidently recommend your
Iron Te" ns took this lot Tor an experiment an
carefully watched 1t both in loadDgand disch1rgIs.
lam, Sir yours Respectfully.
'Tf- JOHN HOWARD. siastor.
lTIe undersigned masters of vessels Ia wing cotton
\ cof,ibr.sF pd nj The .0rleans Cotton Press WIN
Eastman 4 new Iron hoop fastening, hereby recon,
mend the same the bales being well compressed aud
HE buttons ar hoops never breaking yhen thrown
down In the hole OF the ship, OF wien slowed
J. lanes Thomas Mate ship Henry Ware-A TAI
hat Master shin Hama sceket-John Deary, ship jaime
Titesml,-Jan,cs {. Miner, slip Malhouse, Of New
orieans-fIerman Kopperhold, Master ship EInt A.
Ciark-I. H. Coadry, ship Moses Davenport-ifiram
Robinson, ship Madras.