The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-19

ONE OF CAIR0'S NEW AND YALUA.
BILE INSTITUTIONS. KNOWN AS
THE CAIRO OIL COMPANY"

THE BUILDINGS, MACHINERY, THE PRESSES,
CAPACITY, ETC., ETC.
There are in Cairo number of insti,u-
tons, Of which the community is proui--in
which is enyeloped much of Cairo's material
wealth. And there is good reason for
pride, because their presence here is moth.
ing short Of an ncontroyertsble declaration.
based upon the experience Of men Of good
judgment, that Cairo holds out better in
ducemenis 70 specializing capitalists than
any other city in this part Of the country.
Among the principal institutions Of this
kind is the Cairo Oil Company's cotton seed
oil mills, built here within the last six or
eight months and finished but few weeks
ago. The company, which is a strong one,
composed Of number Of gentlemen whose
first experience in the manufacture of cot
ton seed oil, cotton seed meal, etc, dates
back many years, and whose capital is enJr,
nous, selected Cairo from among q mum
Der of cities within a radius Of hundreds
Of miles around it, as the best point for the
establishment Of a large mill, which had
been destroyed by fire in Hickman, Ky.
II is known here as "The Cairo Com
pany,' and is differed, as follows
Mr.. Robert Thompson, Of Nashville, Ten
nessee, president; Mr.. Henry SpeTy, Sec
Rotary; Mr. W. G. Davis, manager The
reasons which lead the company to the
selection Of this point from among SO
many good points are many and important;
but chief among them were Cairo's uneX.
celled shipping facilities-hcr two great
rivers and many railroads, present and
prospective, which brings her in close re-
lationship with the cotton plantations Of
the south and the manufacturing centres
and markets of the north and east. These
considerations induced the company to in
vest many thousands Of dollars in ground
buildings and machinery here, fully salts.
fed that it would realize good profit
from such investment. 70 enable the read
ers of The BULLETIN TO comprehend and
appreciate, AS far AS possible the magnitude
Of the "Cairo Oil Works" and the bene.
fits the city must derive therefrom, the
following, necessarily somewhat i'm.
perfect, description is given:-
The buildings are four in number and
occupy one whole square, block number
sixty three. The ground Is bounded on
the east by Jefferson avenue, on the west
10y the Mississippi leyee, on the south by
Third street and on the north by Fourth
street. Three Of the buildings are frame
and one brick and all are models OF
strength and design. One, seventy. five
feet long, thirty feet wide and two stories
high, is the cooper shop, where the com
pany manufactures i,sown oil barrels; an
other, one hundred feet long, by seventy
five feet wide and about forty feet high, al
in one story, is the ware house, where al
raw material is kept, from whence it il
conveyed 10y means of elevators to the ma
chinery, and which hes a capacity Of four
teen hundred tons of seed. Tn,
third building is arg,
substantial brick building, two stories
high, six,y.hvc feet long and fifty
feet wide 1t is occupied on the first foo
by the huixr by great cotton bins and
cotton press, Npd by u number OF elevator
and air convcyors, and on the second floor
by three elegant oowS, cotton gins TIL,