Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-26
THE OH MILL.
Auspicious opebiag Of New Enter
PRISE in Fort Worth.
A Visit by a Gazette Reporter and What
He Saw.

eral manager Of the mill, and Mr.. j. II.
Erb, superintendent OF the works o. Il.
Vanwlnkle & Go. OF Atlanta, Ga,
who furnished the mill ma
chlnery, he was initiated into the
mysteries OF making oil from cotton
seed.
The building Ia twostory stone
I45x65 feet. IL cost about 700, and
IN probably the result Of the enterprise
Of Meesrs. Boaz a. Battle, cotton deal
ers OF this city, who saw the necessity
of one IN Fort Worth, but the directors
and stockholders are composed OF a
number Of wealthy and Influential
men of the city.
The officers are: John Nichols,
pro ident; David Boaz, vlce-presidenii
Geo. @. Battle, ~ CretaTy and treasurer
j. f. Alexander, general manager
The directory h composed of MeesrB
John Nichols, y w. LOmRx, ID. BOnz,
Geo. G. Battle, Martin Casey, Thos
Roche and w. NJ. Lay.
The stockholders aTe all the Officers
aud directors, and n. M Barr, l.. h.
\ elm. Max Elser, J + Smith, w. A.
Huffman, Casey n Bwasey and Day d
Mas.
rhe mill commenced operations on
Monday, more for the purpose OF test
ing the machinery than anything
else, IA the works were completed too
late 10 be pTOiitably run this season
The machinery, which IL OF the latest
and most improved patent, was sup
Piled by u. VAnWinkle d Co Of At
lRnta, GE, and Capt. Alexander,
the general manager says II gives
tho directory aud etDckholderB
complete satisfaction. The n Van
Wrinkle Co. has placed four Of these
machines In T,xas; at Tyler, Mckln-
ney, Plttsbufg and Fort Worth. the
frat three have been In active opera
tlon nll this season.
When THE dAzBrTE representative
arrived at the mill yesterday II large
open doorway ON the east
side Of The building Bw J.
lowed aud deposited him in front
of "A huge l0O.hUrse power Atlas EN-
glne, which was furnished through the
machinery house OF the w. A. Hull
man Co Of this city Tue Ares were
burning brightly md the
HUN or MACHINERY
sang "A steady, HOMOGENEOUS song OF the
science Of mechanical art aud the In
genulty Of man. The ilues which led
from the two boilers TO the amoke-alack
lowered over the fires almost In tho
shape of nm eagle which seemed To
| spread ils wings over theparty Rs they
passed through room to the left
where the huge iiy-whtel transmitted
the power To the machinery Of the
mill Passing close To the wall and
keeping IA far VA possible from the
huge wheel the reporter entered
third room where the crusher, boilers
aud pTesses were and lot of men
were busily engaged, some putting
meal into bags, some fitting up th,
presses and Others stripping the haga
from the pressed cakes. He WAS taken
TO the starting point In The
mill aud found large pile
OF cotton seed, where mtu VIII
"A shovel was throwing the seed into Al
automatic elevator which led to whn
Ia called tho sand SCREEN or feeder
1hla sand screen extracts all fortigt
aubstAnCeA from the seed such as rock
nails, etc From the screen the seeC
passed into an elevator which carrie
. IL up one story luto u oonveyer, from
: which H. passrs into "A machine called
&. the "linterh where the cotton !
: stripped from the seed, the seed brln
conveyed into another mRchin
called the "huller,n where IL
+ ground, The cotton passee from
the Inter Into "condenaer,
a from which II emerges In sheeli
a This cotton In sold ~ CHEAP articl,
!, and Ia mostly used for upholslerln
u purposes, etc Afer being ground th
"a seed passes iu,O the separator,
"a where the meal and husks are sep,
n rated aud y tss of through conveyer
In different direotlons, the hulls b.
ing emptled IN the engine room AL
the meal passing through "A boltiu
y horusher From the crusher II Ia pl
pr into boilers and steamed, an
r from the boilers II goes In
~, long, marrow sacks, and II plac,
70, In the pre9sers. which are ri
m 10y hydraulic pressure, Tho proc,s ~
at extracting theOil IL an interesting ON,
ed after the meal Ia put into the suns
sacks II Ia placed between leather Al
hair cover aud put In tho presats M
the pressure applied. AS the visito
stood looking at the oil trlckllng dow
tin trough, from which it empti
ny into n tank, tho pressure gauge regl
AT tered $500 pounds pressure TO II
square Inch, aud Mr.. Erb, by plaolI
hls hand on the satety-valve, soon n
the pressure up TO 1000 pounds p
he square inch.
M. The oil can he pumped from the
Iat oelving into the storing tanks u
10 from there can be pumped into tau
,et on the ears OF ahipped In barre
After the oil In extracted, the cakes
ground aud holted, and then put up
al sacks or barrels for sale. II sells
$50 per ton, and ton OF raw seed "
make $50 pounds Of meal This m
Ii used principally for cattle feed,
-. which purpose IL " excellent. It
~ also uAe.i ~ u fertilizer.
\" Thia mill oils "a want In the city.
~ will create market for eOmelhl
49,, which the farmers Of Tarrant coul
~ now fluid practically useless. I
~ price paid for cotton ~ Cd IL about u
NJ dollars per ton, and the mill has
~ paclty OF about twenty tons per d
Nv. At this rate Il would use $3.50 worll
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