Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-05

south Of the Ohio river. Even Gin
c%innati cannot match it. Mr.. P. Sid
Jones, who has been in this line Of
business for the last ten years, has
lately become connected with the
firm as general agent. He spends his
time both here and on the road, and BY
his industry aud efficiency draws a
heavy custom.
We are glad to be able to state that
the business Of this establishment was
never so good at this time of year.
Orders are constantly coming in from
all directions, and, as we said above, it
is really necessary to run almost a full
force. Mr.. Rosa and his partners
are very much pleased with the bust
ness indications of Memphis. They
have worked up their factory from a
modest beginning to its present -four
ishing condition, and are in a position
to judge Of the future prospects Of
the city. A favorable opinion from
them is very encouraging. Their
business reaches out into Virginia,
Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas and Texas, and is constantly
growing larger. Wherever their
wagons are introduced they win public
favor and take the place Of others.
The prosperity of this firm only shows
what can be done in Memphis in the
manufacturing line when it is taken
hold of in earnest. We hope others
will follow their example in other
lines of business until Memphis be-
comes more of a manufacturing place
than a cotton center. BY that time
the population of the place will be
more than doubled,
Cotton Seed OIL Factories.
About $50 men find work at the FIVE
cotton seed oil and cake factories in
this city. Their daily pay ranges from
81 to g so. The. five factories are the
Memphis, Pamela, Home, Bluff City,
Southern. During the past season and
between fifty and sixty thousand bar
pels of cotton seed oil were shipped
from this point by way Of New Orleans
and the gulf mainly to Europe
also, 10000 sacks of oil cake from
this side, and sixty thousand sacks
from the opposite shore, a total of
twenty-five thousand tons of cake.
This important industry has been
less lucrative to the mill owners
than in former seasons, the value
of oil and cake having ranged low
throughout. A moderate profit has,
however, been realized. The aver
age. value Of oil has been from %
to 30 cents per gallon, a reduction of
one-fourth, while cake has
from So to $lS per ton, when
in former years it came up to $26. The
demand for cake comes mainly from
England and Scotland, very little
used on the European continent.
For cattle feed and manuring ex-
hansted lands it is usually devoted.
100000 tons of seed have been
consumed here, the value ranging
the season at from 81 to 81
per ton. A considerable quantity of
the raw seed has found its way to st.
and Chicago during the past
oil mills having been estab-
Iished at both places. The oil from
cotton seed is constantly finding
It's way to new uses, and becfm-
ing more and more popular.
. number Of our home people actually
the refined oil to any other for
salad oil and table use. Dealers in
sake and oil here assert that while
ocean freight room has been scarce at
New Orleans all the season, yet larger
deeper draught vessels, mainly
steamships, have found their way 10
md from the port Of New Orleans,
without detention through
Eads' jettes at the South Pass outlet
II the Mississippi river. Freight
'ates have ruled uniformly lower than
n former years, without exception, in
consequence of this great commercial
Improvement.
Memphis brewery.
An immense beer barrel, big enough
to hold ten thousand gallons, occupies
. prominent place on the sidewalk in
front of the Memphis brewery down
on Tennessee street, neal the ice
house. II serves as a sign, and there
are sixty just like it in the cooling
cellars of the brewery near by. The
sixty monsters are we'll stored with
sound argument best suited TO the
comprehension ola large crowd of our
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