Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-15

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A Memphis Machine worth SIX MIL
lion DOIlars n fear 70 the south.
tzJ YeAterdayt Almimber hi rclants and
members Of the press visited the cotton
/ gin and neutrality-suspicious. of Grader
4 Co. to examine the working of the new
machine called the "linter," by which
commpn, notes, heretofore thrown away
as useless, are turned into good ordinary
cottotqdf nCliJibsIin01 iplfss99De
THE MACHINE
is ofsimple construction, but is destined
to work q wonderful revolution in favor
of the planter, by giving him a price for
bwhaf has mp to this time been y him
1vaIaeless. Wis Icalculated "a cobsume
one million pounds Of notes per year,
which will bring to the cotton producers
hereabonts ten. thonsabd dollars of an.
Income annually. Such an item as that
is not to be sneezed at, and especially
when Il is is yielded from a source that
never gave anything before save the an
noyance OF casting it away or usingit
for manure. Since March last the Com
pany have purchased 100000 pounds of
notes, for which hey paid at a rate of
one cent or cent and half pound.
THE INVENTOR
of CHS important machine.is our fellow
townsman, G. M, Grader, Esq, who inr
trodaced it to our people in October last.
1t is now worked by the Grader Cotton
Gin and Manufacturing Company The
assignees of The patent have now3ih sue
cessfal operation inHour city anil of six
bales capacity every twelve hours, for
taking the refuse and notes of cotton
gins now in use, which have hitherto been
thrown away or used as a fertilizer, and
making of themgood ordinary cotton, at
a net cost of fivelcents per pound. This
machine must be seen to be appreciated
9sMXCE 1.-THE REsuLFs,ENg
Few persons would be prepared to be-
lieve, without actual observation, that
from the material used such results could
4 be realized. By this process five to six
million dollars may be added to the net
annual profit in the production of the
cotton States, and that, too, from what
has heretofore been considered worthless.
The linters patented and owned by the
Grader Cotton Gin and Manufacturing
Company are the only machinesinvented
that .will gin JmotesF The attention OF
planters and capitalists is invited to its
examination. "a
.aE& AAPRoPosITfoN.
The Company propose to erect mills
4 at New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Sa-
vanpah, Montgomery, Selma and other
important Southern cities; and from the
fact that they are working material in
which they have no competition, and
producing cotton at so small cost, the
dividends on the stock must be large
enough to satisfy the most grasping cap
italist.
| g'NHQrHE MACHINE ROOMS
in which the work is performed are stu
ated close to the river, in the rear of the
hire engine house ons Shelby street. 4 On
j the first floor or basement is1a forty
horsepower engine, which keeps all the
machinery above it in motion. This
place is also used as press-room, large
press being stationed in one end of lit.
On the second floor is the machine called
the lapper," which rolls out the cotton
as it comes from the carders,' sixteen
of which are working close by. On the
third floorA Is the great Invention, the
Inter" which separates the lint from
the mote; and nextto is the t'opener,"
which, by means Of a bellows and beater,
takes all dirt from the lint in no time.
THE SUPERINTENDENT n
of this manufacturing establishment is
Mr.. Parkham, to whom we are. indebted
for walk through the works. 1t is with
great pleasureawe recommend his in
dustry and skill, and hope he may heart
liz enjoy. the fruits of his labor IT is
such Establishments as this Of the Ora
der Cotton Gin and Manufacturing Com
psny, is wanted to make Memphis a
lprosperoasand wealthy city. Here is
benefit bestowed on everybody by sim
pie invention properly managed. There
are enough cows horns strewn around
in fields in the suburbs to give a good
! start to q comb factory Fortunes can
be made here by the thousand If men
with capital will go about the matter in
an interprising and go-ahead spirit. 81.
lug HoEISc MAgcHsTaA greatseryiee would
be rendered to the country around Mem
phis if some enterprising spirit would
! get up hoeing match. Let five or six
thousand patriots celebrate the Fourth
of July, or any other day, by hoeing
I few hundred acres of cotton and corn,
and we assure them they will confer a
greater benefit on this community than
by spending their time in swilling liquid
4 FIRE and kicking up their heels to the
lboruonx Of violin and French horn "