New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-01

During the past two or three years the at
tention Of the capitalists of our city ap
pears to have been directed to manufactur-
ing to degree which promises great re-
suits for the future. The fact that New Or
leans possesses great natural advantages as
a point where the great staple products Of
the Southwest can be prepared for consump-
ton, appears to have at least forced itself
upon the minds of mOneyed men, and we
are glad to be able to chronicle that many
new manufactures have sprung up during
the past year, which can but have the effect
of greatly advancing the general public in
terest by giving remunerative labor to our
working classes, promoting the increase Of
population and keeping vast sums of money
at home, which hitherto went abroad.
The establishment above-named is one of
the most valuable which have been inau-
gurated, and we deem that it would not
prove uninteresting on this the beginning of
new commercial year, to give our readers
brief description of it, and what it pro-
poses to do.
THE MANUFACTORY
Is situated at the corner of NOtre Dame and
Front streets, in the First District, and is
an immense four-story building, running
through to Fulton street, in the rear. Each
floor OF this building is devoted to some par
ticular process, and contains for itself COM
plete machinery, separate and distinct in
description. We propose to commence with
the highest-the fourth tiOOr-and to de-
scribe all we saw, on a recent visit, down to
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final processes are gone through with. the
products are shipped to market.
The fourth floor contains four immense
cotton gins, a lint room for the ginned cot
ton and carrying apparatus for conveying
off the cotton seed as fast as they come
from the gins. Seed cotton, that is cotton
lust as it is taken from the fields, is put in
these gins and rid of seeds and trash in the
very best and most expeditions manner
1.-THE machinery being sufficient to any de-
mand), the teecy staple being forced into
the lint room and from thence to the press
through trap III the floor; the seeds on to
the carrier. which also conducts them to
huller on the next floor. This floor is
complete gin house, with the most i'm
proved machinery on a large scale. Moth
ing is wanting nor could che work it does
be improved upon.
Descending to the next floor, the first
huller hard at work taking the hulls and
outside fibre from the seeds we just saw
dropping into it from above. As if by
magic it does it's work and separating
the wheat from the chatf' with unerring
fidelity, it delivers both in their proper
places, ready for the next process. In the
rear of this busy and noisy affair, we find
the cotton press. into which the cotton from
the lint room above falls as fast as required.
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ready for shipment. This press is so con-
structed that it is capable of doing all the
work required of it. and doing it with but
little assistance.
Following the examples set us by the
hulled cotton seed, we 90 down to the next
floor: and here another busy scene awaits
us. The wheat-ile grains of cotton seed
are falling into hoppers, which conduct
them into a machine which seems to us to
be a cross between a corn mill and print
ing press. BY it the grains are ground to
fine meal, and then pressed into thin flakes
like snow, which again descendS another
story, and are ready for other processes.
We now 90 down to fthe first floor ard
look after the ground seed we saw falling
as above described. They are received by
a machine called heuier, which somewhat
resembles the centrifugal of the sugar
planter. This is heated by steam, and the
meal is kept stirring about quite lively :"
by a machine inside. This operation brings
out to the surface the oil contained in the
particles of the meal, SO that when it is put
in bags and then into the press near by 1.-THE
next prOcesS), and the light weight" of
some hundred or SO tons put upon it, the oil
the grand object of all this trouble-tiows
freely through the pores of the cloth, and
conducted by cutters runs into reservoir
underneath From thence it is taken-a
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fed into the beautiful coloress Oil we see
i'll market and then barrelled up and
shipped. The meal, after coming out of the
press, resembles a long yellow loaf of bread.
is highly esteemed as feed for cattle, and
large quantities are shipped to Europe for
this purpose.
THE DIRECT ADVANTAGES OF THIS MANI
FACTORY.
Messrs. Seelye d Taylor well knowing
that there would be large numbers of small
farmers who would embark in the culture
of cotton but for the fact that the machine
nv for its preparation for market would cost
too much; and that were they to haul it in
the seed to neighboring gin the transpor-
tation would eat up the profits upon it, de-
termined upon adding to their mandatory
the cotton ginnery, and offering to all plan
tiers to gin their cotton for the seed it con-
tanned, furnishing them with the necessary
bags at their nearest landing free OF freight.
BY these means the farmer is relieved of the
necessity of first hauling his cotton to the
gin, and then to the landing-or, taking
pickers from the field to gin it, if he has ma
chinery. He saves the one bale out of ten
which he would have to pay for ginning his
cotton, and is relieved of the freight and
! commissions for his bagging and iron-as
these will be supplied 'at cost price at the
manutactOry, and paid for after the cotton
is sold. Hi. cotton will, besides, be better
ginned than it could be on a plantation, will
be put on the market without previous
handling and injury from the weather, ard
last but not least, will be more uniform and
understandable. and so bring better price.
To obtain these advantages he will on Y
have to write to his commission merchant
here to send him so many of Messrs. Seelye
& Taylor's cotton sacks per next steamer.
These sacks will come, free of charges, and
after filling, ship them back notifying the
merchant of the shipment. The cotton will
be Immediately ginned, baled and held sub
,ject to the order Of the commission mer-
chant, and all the planter will have to pay
is the seed it contained. which he would
have lost if he had hired his ginning from a
| neighbor. The freight down, bagSing and
iron straps he would have to pay for any
how. If our planters do not see the profit
to be derived by them from this enterprise
we much mistake their intelligence.
| OF course Messrs. Seelye q Taylor VIII
| not work for nothing. Their immense cot
ton seed oil mandatory enables them to
utilize the seed to far greater advantage
| than anybody else could and they can thus
make it pay. They do not pretend to be
public benefactors, with no other hope OF
reward than the knowledge of having done
good, any more than their neighbors, but
they have knoWIpG oa ideas and capital and
expect to make these support them. while
holm -menerally usetml We know thcln To he