Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01

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hereinafter stated, will be greatly aug
mented in this city.
The Memphis Oil Company, T. A. Nell
/ son President, has used 45e0 Ons Of cot
ton seed in the past twelve months, az an
average cost Of $f2 per ton. 1t has made
5000 barrels of Oil and 1900 tons of cake,
shipped, in part, to Europe aud distri-
buted over the Gulf States. The process
of refining oil has been begun, and the
finest quality of soap is produced. The
capital invested in machinery n stock
is $4,000, and in building and lot $40,-
900. The CAKE cotton seed after the oil
is expressed) is worth SIS per ton; crude
oil, 50955 cents per gallon; I'LL oil,
76(GS5 cents Seventy-five hands are en-
ployed, at an average pay of 81 rs per
day. The mill, constantly in operation,
would consume, in twelve months, 1000
tOns OF seed. This oil is widely used for
l~ubricating purposes, for making putty,
and by iron workers in cutting screws,
etc. There are two other establishments
like that above described: the n Oil
and Fertilizer Company, managed by Mr..
W. b. Miller, two years in successful
operation, and the excellent mill of Beau
mont, Lanier IL Co. The capital invested
in the three mills exceeds $780, 600. The
Pamela Company used 5000 tons Of cotton
seed last year. Its managers are pre-
pairing to mix oil meal and bone dust,
plaster Paris and other Ingredients, in
accordance with q formula of Frof. Hill
CARLSBAD t. De the best yer used in the
South. The Pamela Company made, last
year, $500 barrels oil and 1890 tons of
cake. The products of the three mills
have been 1850 tons Of cake and 740O bar
rels of oil.
The Southern Oil Works is the name of
another corporation chartered by the
General Assembly of Tennessee. It's af-
fairs will be managed by gentlemen thor
oughly cOnversant with the business-one
ofthem a founder of the Memphis "Cot-
tOn-seed Oil Company" established and
most successfully managed before the
war. Several of cur weaIthiest bankers
and merchants are i-ncOrporatoT5 and
shareholders. The capital stock is $780,
coo, nearly all taken, aud much Of their
machinery is already upon the ground.
They hav eighteen improved hydraulic
presses with a working capacity OF Is, COZ
tons cotton seed per year. or $50 tons per
week. From this raw material the COM
paDy viii be able to produce not iessthsn
450, 900 pounds or 1905 bales cotton short
staple), $3.50 tons oil-cake, and 6le. GO gal
Ions crude oil, To carry on the husiuess
of this company will require from hIfy 10
seventy-hve men. The hulis from the
seed furnish all the fuel required for steam
pos From small beginnings, with
but little sale for either the oil or oIl-cake,
eleven years ago, the demand, already
very large, is constantly increasing, as its
intrinsic value becomes known. THE cot
ton obtained by the re-ginning of tins seed
is used in the manufacture of shoddy
goods, for cotton batting, etc.
The Oil-cake is ground into meal, and IS
extensively used as a concentrated food
for feeding and fattening stock of all
kinds-hogs, sheep, cows, oxen, horses,
mules, etc, etc. z
The cake, which is known in the Euro
Pean markets as the "American Decorti-
Gated" is highly priced as a rich, nutri-
cious food for stock, and always COM
mands a ready sale.
The oil is used to great advantage for
commercial purposes. First, properly re-
fined, il makes a beautiful burning OIL tor
headlights in locomotives, as a signal oil,
for mining purposes underground, where
petroleum cannot be used. 1t takes the
place of lard and sperm oil, as il gives
equally as good a light, and is furnished
muehc cheaper. For the manufacture of
soaps this oil is unsurpassed, it being
found superior to the famous palm oip'
of Africa, n C so much in vogue. 1t Is
the ultimate purpose of this company to
make use of the bulk of their oil in the
manufacture OF soaps, thus supplying the
trade of the Southwest with the very best
ANo4AhN VI SOobs 81 NOgA 0Al II Il pAu-
nOunced equal to No. l lard oil, while its
cheapness causes manufacturers of wool
en- goods to give it the preference.
Large quantities are used by tanners and
curriers' as a anners oil, in place of fish
oil. AS a table oil, or salad oil, it Is
found to answer so good a purpose that it
is computed at the present time twenty
i've cases cotton oil lin half pints, pints
and quarts) are sold, to one case genuine
olive oil.
1t is also used for painting to a large ex-
tent, in place of hax-seed oil, which it
closely resembles.
Flour and Grlst Mills.
The Jackson street mill has an invested
capital of $500; the Poplar street about
the same sum. The two make I2O TO I75
barrels of -four, and 100 to 125 barrels of
meal per day. The employ from twenty
to twenty-five hands. Their brands are
well-knOwn in the market and their pro-
ducts are readily sold. The Union street
grist mills make 100 barrels of dour and $50
barrels of meal per day. The capital in
vested is 50, 900. The Leftwitch Besle
street mills manufacture US to 2OG barrels
of flour and 200 barrels of meal per day.
The building cost $4,000 and the machin-
cry is of the very best description. The
mills of the city produce about 45O barrels
of four and 500 of meal, daily, and the
demand is greater than the supply.
Publishing and BSok-MaklHg.
The five daily newspapers of the city
-four English and one GERMANY, and
nine job offices, with binderies, presses
and machinery, and all appliances of
the printing business now in use, are
worth, adding together the estimated
value of each establishment, three hun
bred and eighty-three thousand dollars.
In view of the price of labor, as fixed by
the Printers Union, bOOk-making and all
printers work is az cheaply and taste
fully don here as elsewhere in the United
States, and in proportion to population
the newspapers contain more reading
matter, and more labor is expended on
them than IN any city of the South or
West.
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