Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-06

Mnburn Eclipse vs.. Eagle Eclipse Gin
OFFICE CARvEg GIN AND MACHINE Co.
To the Public:
Being absent from home for several days
/ find on my return two articles In the EueH-
ing Ledger OF the 18th and goth ultimo-one
from the Eagle Cotton Gin Company and
the other from W. A. Smith, their agent,
containing differences so grossly uni ust that
/ have deemed it my duty to the public to
make a statement OF the facts regarding the
same. Mr.. Smith says: snow, as We see no
other object for publishing these premature
statements than to take advantage Of the
Eagle Eclipse Gin, we think it nothing but
fair to show the public what steps have been
taken to practice fraud upon u.s. Answer
ing that, l will say that no officer or en-
ploye OF this company sent any dispatch TO
any paper, or to any individual, con-
corning the gin contests at Atlanta.
/, however, do say that the dis
patch stated a fact which can be
proven. In the contest TO which the
kilograms in the APPEAL and AudIaRehe al
luded the Eagle Eclipse Gin ran at speed
of 446 revolutions per minute, ginned 26S
pounds seduction, and produced SOL pounds
lint, while Milburn's Eclipse Gin ran at 800
revolutions per minute, ginned 2l6 pounds
seduction, and produced SO pounds lint,
making gain in turnout for the Milburn
Gin over the Eagle OF five pounds of lint
cotton in the amount ginned. Ii Mr.. Smith
will read the kilograms he alludes to from
Atlanta, he will find that no mention Is made
in either of them about the premium, simply
stating the fact that the Milburn Gin ex-
celled the Eagle in time and turnout, being
the result of the first contest.
In the second contest of cotton gins the
officials records show the Van Wrinkle gin as
making the best sample, Milburn's as
second best and Halls as third best, and no
mention of the Eagle or balance of gins con-
testing. The official record in this contest
also shows that we gave in turnout fourteen
pounds more Of infection to fifteen hundred
pounds of seed-cotton than the Eagle gin.
In the third contest we have been unable
to procure any official records, but were
advised they were not preserved in Atlanta.
In this contest Milburn's Eclipse gin had
very hully, trashy lot of cotton with damp
bulls. The Eagle gin had a very much
better lot, having not near as many hulls,
and otherwise cleaner, better class of cotton
and in better ginning conditioa. The Eagle
Gin Company claimed that when it came to
this contest they could not find any cotton
like we ginned. For the correctness of these
statements We refer to the judges of trials of
cotton gins During the same day, but after
the third contest, in company with friend,
l visited the place where the seed cotton was
stored, and found plenty of the same class of
cotton from which our cotton was taken.
This cotton was bought by the Cotton
Ginners' Association from Captain J. Fl.
Chambers on the Chattahoochie river, and
could have easily been procured, it being in
the Exposition building.
In the last two ginning contests (which
were made with feeders) the Eagle Cotton Gin
broke their roll three times in each contest
and necessitated the stopping of the feeder
several times; SO much so in one of the con-
tests that one of the judges demonstrated
with the ginner about his stirring the roll so
often by hand to loosen it. During these
same two contests the Milburn Eclipse Hull
ing Gin Combination never broke the roll at
all and required no manipulations
Inasmuch as we beat the Eagle Gin in
time and turnout in the first contest, and in
sample and turnout in the second contest,
according to the official records, and in the
absence of any official record in the third
contest, and the fact of the Eagle Gin break
ing its roll SO badly during those two con-
tests, We are at loss to know on what
grounds those awards were based. Hence
we addressed a communication to the di-
rector-general and board of directors of the
Atlanta Exposition concerning the above
M alters, and received his reply, in the course
of which he says: "You will observe that
no such award of premiums or certificates as
your letter would indicate was contemplated.
If in the course of the examination by the
judges your product showed any superior
excellence, it was not sufficient to entitle il,
in their Judgment, to the awards offered"
As We understand it, the product of a cot
ton gin consists of the Infection and the
seed. Now, if we give larger amount of
infection and better quality from the
seduction, and deliver the seed in better
condition for planting or for commercial pur-
poses in the average time that cotton gins
10 hot r,la uiaha
from a cotton gin? But it would seem from
the director-general's letter that this is not
what was contemplated in making out awards
at Atlanta. Further, the Eagle Cotton Gin
Company ran their gin, sixty-saw, with a
driving pulley forty three inches in circumfer-
ence, and at speed of 446 revolutions per
minute.
1t is a well-known fact among cotton GIN
ners well versed in hulling gins that the |
Eclipse Gin hulls better and gins more rap
idly in proportion at a high rate of speed
than with low rate, and that there is much
less liability to slip OF belts with large pull
ley than with small one. This high rate
of ginning, however, is done at the expense
OF the sample in ginning clean cotton. The |
above rate of speed is much greater than
the Eagle or any other gin manufacturer
the purchaser to run his gin, as
it would be detrimental to its durability.
The Milburn Eclipse gin, sixty-saw, was |
run in the contest with pulley thirty and
one half inches in circumft usual |
at speed of from three hundred |
and ten to three hundred and twenty, being |
from forty to sixty-fve revolutions less than |
they recommend to their patrons.
Answering the Eagle Cotton Gin compa- |
ny's card, dated Atlanta, December 26th, and |
in the Erening Ledger of Goth December, we |
would say that they were in error in claim |
ing that they were awarded the grand prize; |
and as to their voluntary statements that the |
Milburn gin acted badly, in proof of the con-
tradiction of this statement we append an |
account of sales for two bales of cotton of |
light weight, of very trashy, bury, new
ground cotton, not picked, but gathered, |
raised on Mr.. c. L. Robinson's plantation in |
Tunica county, Mississippi:
ACCOUNT SALES BY LANGSTON, CRANE & CO. |
2 Bales Cotton for account Mr.. w. J. McDermott, |
Cotton Exposition-Sold s. NJ Inman 4 Co
AIks % Iw'ght. No BIS III w'g't. Price. Amt
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