Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-22
SANDY COTTON.
The Morgan Patent Duplex Sand
Injector.

Mr.. Charles Green's Son, of this city, sent
3 slip containing the letter of Mr.. Fritz
Nisbet, recently published in the MORNING
NEWS, replying so conclusively to the
charges made against the Southern planters
| of adulterating their cotton with sand. to
his correspondents, and among them to a
house In Switzerland. In acknowledge
the receipt OF said slip, this house
enclosed the subjoined extract which
It had received from the New York
Dry Goods Bulletin, giving the alleged expe-
rience of q correspondent of that paper
with ''the Morgan Patent Duplex Sand In
| jector." The letter in the Bulletin, which
is headed "sandy Cotton" speaks for IT.
self. 1t is either intended as a humorous
satire on the part of that journal, or some
wag OF Southern planter has been throw
ing sand in the eyes of the aforesaid cor
respondent. 1t will be noticed that the al
legged sand injector is stated to be manu-
| factured at "Greentown, a small village
near Atlanta" That must be very small
village indeed, as the postal directory says
nothing Of any such place, and the Oldest
inhabitant seems to be wholly ignorant of
its existence. Evidently the New York
paper has either itself been badly hoaxed or
it has endeaVored to wilflully injure the
Southern planter by publishing deliberate
and absurd falsehood-a piece of meanness
Of which we are unwilling to believe it
guilty.
The following is the extract alluded to:
The New York Dry Goods Bulletin having
sent commissioner to the South to inquire
into the truth, or otherwise, of the alleged
cotton fraud, has received the following
letter from Its correspondent, dated Lone
Star Plantation, Mississippi. The owner
OF the plantation is given as DR.. Jackson.
The correspondent says-
The first place we visited was his stable,
where he kept some eighty head of mules,
and then we went to the gin house. It was
large building, soma thirty feet wide by
eighty or ninety long, and contained three
gin stands up stairs and two presses below.
These l readily recognized, but on the
rafters of the lower floor, right above the
presses, was a machine, the like of which l
had never seen before. "This," said the
doctor, 'is the Southern Pride the poor
mans friend.'' "But please explain,n
begged of him, hardly able to control my
patience.
"Tnis is q new attachment, an interme-
diate between the gin and the press, and is
called The Morgan Patent Duplex Sand
funnel shaped aperture, and enters
a receiver in the Injector You see,
as the cotton comes from the floor
above, 1t passes through this in
jector. Here 1T is caught by system of
rollers, and passes through what might be
called cylinder. At the opposite end of
this au1fndor {c bfoI
an endless stream of sand is poured,
which is thoroughly mixed with the cotton,
whilst the cylinder revolves. After several
revolutions, in which the cotton becomes
thoroughly impregnated with the sand, an
automatic cutoff opens slide and throws
the cotton into an inclined plane immedi-
ately above the press. From there 1t passes
slowly into the press and is packed. The
greatest feature about the injector is that
the cotton, after being thoroughly mixed
with the sand, Is allowed, by an elevator
like contrivance, to move slowly into the
press, so that not particle of sand is lost.
Isn't 1t q glorious invention? 1t is only a
Southern genius that could hit upon so
grand an ideap'
Was l dreaming? Was It possible that
such thing really existed, and not only in
the brains of the Oldham spinners. The
Doctor noticed my astonishment, and went
on to explain to me that sand was cheaper
to raise than cotton, and that If scientlfical-
ly worked and Systematically carried out,
the profits Of an average crop were increased
by 35 to 50 per cent, "and," he smilingly
added, ''you know the crop of sand never
falls"
Wishing to learn more of this wonderful
machine, we returned to the house, and
there the doctor gave me pamphlet with
full description and many testimonials. 1t
seems that the machine is manufactured In
Greentown, small village near Atlanta,
Ca, and that the fact of its manufacture
has heretofore been kept a secret.
The next boat will take me to the "Bends"
above Vicksburg, where I will continue nv
researches, and 1 hope to be able to prove
before [ return home that for downright
crookedness the Southern planter beats the
world, and the Oldham spinner is greatly to
be admired for his patience in allowing
these matters to be left untouched so long