The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-05
rnrDAtLAs wEtKLY HERALD, rHUasD W JULY5 1889.

isi N Stone, cotton weghef. George sen
4 I, merchant taefonltufal lmplefneDtslj
J. uspksley, division engineer = Louis y
enRl0esf and maohlnIst, John Vaughn,
hardware and maohinIst, II. u, Bollingef,
merchant, W. y, Blythe, cotton planter
Elias Rector, cotton planter George u,
williams, New Era newspaper W. j.
Weaver, editor Fort Smith Independent,
A. O. Gfeenlee, cotton gin wright u. Steb-
Ter, merchant, l., Heating, cotton planter,
James A. Yantis, attorney-at-lawj Il. z.
Slemons, attorney -at-lawj D.. Il.
Weaver, mechanic and cotton planter;
John III. Keating,, cotton planter;
merchant; s. s. Cobb, Webbers Falls. In.
dian territory, merchant; X. Il. Blackstone,
Webbers Falls, Indian Territory, merchant;
A. Fuller, merchant; Is. n. Gannaway
me chant: NJ. II. Kennedy, cotton-buyer;
lhomas Vernon, cotton gin wright; Leo j.
Morrison, engineer; John 7. Bruce, Potean
coal mining company; u. L. Youngblood,
cotton planter; j. M. Tenney, merchant;
A. H. Reynolds, furniture factory; X. Ball
man. machinist; A. 8. Fowler, city ecord 81
and nited States revenue collector; Il. M
Leach, Livermore foundry and machine
company; John Williams, attorney at law;
Thomas J. Dove, cotton planter; b. T.
Renfro, merch ant; J. II. Alexander, cotton
planter; J. W. Dove. cotton planter and
glnner; G. Il. Howard, cotton planter and
piuncr; e. H. Devany, merchant; Henry
Kuper, merchant Frank Edleman, furni'
ture factory; Joe Limberg, machinist;
Beskamp & Homan, merchants and nun
bers of others too numerous to mention
from lack of space.
From the Fort Smi h New Era, Feb s, 'Ss
Mr.. George N. Todd has on exhibition at
the Southern holel an Invention of his own
lately patented, most ingeniOusly con-
structed cotton-picker, designed and in
tended for the purpose OF picking cotton
rapidly and economically, and after
thorough examination of the machine and
witnessing tests made with it where the
machine actually picked the cotton from
the bolls without injuring or breaking the
stalks or limbs, we feel satisfied that it will
prove as great blessing to those engaged
in the culture of cotton as the threshing
machine has been to the wheat grower. 1t
is intended to be used by horsepower, a
tull.sized machine weighing only 1000
pounds, and as 1t gathers the cotton as fast
as it can be handled along, 1t is easy to see
that an immense saving will be made on
the oid-time plan by picking by hand.
Space forbids us giving description of this
merltorious machine.
Indian Journal, March !. 'S3-Muscogee, Greek
Nation, l.. 1. .
Mr.. George Todd was in our town last
week with machine cotton-picker OF his
own invention, and one that will prove a
success. A stock company at Fort Smith
purchased the right for Arkansas, and 50
we'll did the machine impress
our citizens that stock company was i'm:
mediately formed of a $50, con capital and
purchased the right for the territory for
$12 900. The following are the officers: J.
e. Turner, president; r: E. Blackstone,
vice-president; Clarence Turner. secretary
and treasurer, and George Todd, superi i
tendent. J. E. Turner, Clarence Turner,
r e. Blackstone, N. P. Blackstone, Samuel
Grayson and George Todd directors"
The following from the Fort Smith Inde-
pendent of June 9th describes this ma.
chine very thoroughly: "Mr. George
Todd, the inventor of the cotton-picker has
lust arrived from a trip to the different
cities of the north and east and has brought
with him an elegant picking machine for
upland cotton, designed for exhibition at
the Louisville exposition. This machine is
complete in every particular, meeting all
the requirements of a field cotton har-
vester, or picker, and can be readily ad-
iusted to every conceivable form or growth
of cotton and the different modes OF cult
walton. 1t consists OF frame or box, hay
ing a central conyerging passage-way, wide
by iron plates, front and rear, and trussed
across the top, making it perfectly solid.
On each side of the passe ge-way are series
O picking cylinders from bottom to top,
and behind these picking cylinders is an
ingenious form of machinery for taking the
cotton from the picking cylinders and de-
posting it upon conveyor which carries
1t into sacks. The frame and machinery is
carried and driven by two five-foot wheels
I, lQqQar
wheels at the rear, which latter are formed
inuo rudder and placed under the control
OF the driver by spring lever, by means OF
which he can instantly wheel the machine
around at the turning row. The mode oil
operation is by means of two horses, one on
each side of the cotton row, hauling the
machine directly over tie plants, which
pass through the central passage,way OF
the machine; their limbs coming between
the cylinders, are picked by them of their
cotton and the trash thrown to the ground.
These cylinders, in their turn, being
cleaned by the machinery already men.
toned, the plants pass on through the ma
chine without being injured. Strange as 1t
may seem, these picking cylinders are
made OF steel wire, so arranged that while
they will seize and retain any fibrous sub
stance, such as cotton or wool, yet they
will not tear or injure piece Of tissue pa
per, as actual tests have fully demon.
strated. Fort Smith may Justly feel proud
of the enterprise of its citizens in organic
ing 1.-THE Fort Smith Todd Cotton-Picker
Company" and the stockholders of the
same will assuredly reap rich harvest from
their investment. Mr.. Todd, though a
young man, has perfected this machine in
less than year without assistance from
any person. He will leave here
shortly for Texas. Mississippi and Tenp c ssee,
where prominent citizens and capitalists
have arranged with him to organize com
pani.s.
Arkansas and the Indian Territory al
ready having been sold, he will have ten
more states.
While this machine will not pull off or
ipjure the matured green bolls. break the
limbs or pull up the brush, yet 1t would be
sheer nonsense to expect a cotton picking
machine to pick out the cotton and not de-
stroy the flowers or blooms, and squares
OF very young embryo bolls, If applied in
the early season therefore, but should be
used when the growth OF cotton is matured,
beginning about the LIST of October. AT this
season blooms, squares and very young
bolls will be caught by the frost before they
could make cotton, and are therefore OF no
value. More than four-6fths Of the cotton
crop Is gathered from October until March,
and these few hollis opening In the early
season will retain their cotton until the
maturity of the whole.
Ranavalomanjaka. queen Of Madagascar,
In taid 10 epend hall an hour or an hour