The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-16
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VAoitt Oh TTiu8ys 10 tue works OF this
company, and are sure our readers will
be Interested in some account Of an en-
terprise 30 extensive and Of such impor-
tance to our farming interests. The de-
tails Of the establishment are too extcn.
sive for our limits, but, in brief, we
were introduced to the following busy
and noisy scene: A large Roots safety
boiler, as incapable of harm as q house
cat, but as strong as fifty horses, was
driving powerful engine, which, by n
single broad belt, put in motion To-
byrinth of shafting. gearing, belts. pull
leys, shukers, elevators, conveyors, and
various pieces of machinery, fearfully
and wonderfully made. Over and under
and through and along and among these
contrivances there wound a zigzag path,
beginning in hopper. where cotton
seed were being thrown with shovel,
and ending in funnel, where beauti-
fully refined oil was running into bnr-
rel, having divested itself, in its intricate
journey, of the lint, bulls aud kernels of
seed, in which nature had stored it, aud of
the gum md mucilage held in solution
by it, ut various branches of the road
where these foreign substances we're
showed off tho track, and led away to
other nses. From the hopper, into
which it was thrown ut the beginning of
its journey, the seed rushed through n
machine contrived with box stomach, in
which we're arrested varied assortment
Of nails, old iron, bits OF crockery, bones,
stones and gravel, which are found in
cotton seed, but would be of no uae in
the oil, and are consequently rejected ut
the first stage of the process. This di-
gester hands the seed TO the Inter,
which takes off any lint adhering to the
seed, and blows it into shect-iron room,
while the seed are passed on to huller.
From tho huller the seed, now hulled.
but mixed with the kernels, climb up an
elevator to the roof, and tumble about
in an immense screen until the kernels
arc separated from the hulls, which are
thrown out to the boiler for fuel AS
fast as they arc free from the hulls, the
kernels hurry back and dive out of sight
between powerful pair of rolls, but re-
appear again in mashed condition,
climbing up to get into large steam
chest, where they are to be heated. Even
here, however, they do not stop, but are
kept stirring around until we'll warmed,
when they squeeze out into bag ready
to receive them. and the bag, rapidly
adjusted by hand, is placed in the press.
Here there is halt for somo minutes,
whilo tho oil makes its escape under o
tremendous but silent pressure, and runs
into tank, after which the pressed cake
is thrown to mill, ground to meal and
bagged for market. The crude oil, after
being allowed to settle, is pumped up to
the refining tanks, and fitted for various
markets by dark and delicate processes
only understood by few. We saw various
samples, from rich golden yellow to q
purely colorless and sparkling oil, ae
sweet as q nut and rs clear rs water.
Outside of the building We saw o new
sett of presses just arrived, and an i'm
mense pile Of bones, and learned that
the company designs extensive additions
to their works, and particularly the cree
tion Of machinery to grind bone, and
make fertilizer of dissolved bone and
cotton seed meal, which has become very
popular Mt the West recently, under the
name Of the Langdon Fertilizer. Enter.
prises of this sort, giving employment
to labor, adding to the value of our pro-
ductions before they are shipped abroad,
and saving valuable products heretofore
thrown away, are the great need of our
State.
PHGNIXIANA.-- The price of single
copies Of the PH-ENIX is five cents. If
carriers charge more it. is simply swim
die. They can be obtained at that prico
at the office.
Mr.. T.. G. Plumer is on his way homo
from Washington, where he has secured