The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-27


hauled the cotton with their hooks, and
the covering did not tear. Each of the
three bales were weighed, flat and side
ways, and the bales were lifted and low
cred with a terrible jerk, which had no
effect on the covering, not q tear or rip
being visible. Cotton weighers and
scale hands declared that jute covering
could not stand this test.
Three bales were then taken to.the
compress, were jerked from the dray by
two powerful colored men, veteran
knights of the cotton hook. The bales
were of the ordinary size, one of them
weighing 553 pounds and measuring B
feet inches in length by Q feet 2 inches
lin thickness and 8 feet 5 inches in height.
These were the figures at this stage of the
proceedings when they were ready for
the compress. The cotton rollers here
took e few pulls at the bales, jerking and
tossing them around, but withal, they
stood these tests, the cotton rollers said,
better than jute baggiDg. does. The
cotton soon reached tho press, which. was
carrying between 120 and l25 pounds Of
steam pressure, which gave q compress.
ing power Of 900 tons. This is the
average pressure carried by the press,
being sufficient for all purposes.
B The bales we're pressed and hooped
and rolled ont. The bagging was closely
examined and found perfect, each bale
presenting q pretty appearance. Mr..
McGrath suggested that it was easy to
sample, and he cut . bale. The committee
here went to work on. the bale. Messrs.
Hazard, Levy and Dobbins tested its
strength with q hook, and Messrs. lHaz.
5zard and Levy remarked that it was
..shard to tear MI. Dobbins went fur.
ther and pronounced the covering sim:
possible to tear.
q "A bale of cotton covered with two
pound juts bsggiDg was compared to the
cotton cloth as regards strength of the
fabric, and the new article was found
superior to the jute. Both bales we're
given a test at tearing, and the jute gave
q larger opening than the cotton cloth.
Mr.. Morris Bay hi, weigher, and two
strong scale: hands put the bales through
the weighing process, and the cotton
covered bale stood the test of the hand
and scale hooks superior to jute bag
ging.
Mr.. Bayhi, who has been a cotton
weigher for the last twenty-five years,
stated that he had subjected the three
bales to as severe 8 test as possible, and
that the cotton bagging did not give as
much as jute. It is something unusual
to "trip a bale Of cotton--chapglng it's
position, handling it with hooks-and it
stood that test better than jute. The
bales we're laid fat and number OF
buckets of water thrown on them. The
water rolled off. a bale covered with
heavy iute was put through a similar or.
deal and the water remained on the bale.
Mr.. Odenheimer here remarked that
cotton was an oily substance and did not
take water as easily as jute, and this was
proven to the satisfaction OF the wit.
nesses. -
The committee again went to work on
the bale, trying to tear it. They did the
same with ajute covered bale, and in
every instance the cotton cloth proved to
be superior, and they were satisfied with
the test. 3
MI. Odenheimer informed Mr.. Levy
that the goods was from 38 to 40 inches
in width, weighed 13 ounces or ! OF 9
pound to- the yard, and it takes yards
to cover q bale of cotton thoroughly.
The cost is 122 cents per yard, and Mr..
Odenheimer said that if he had the prop.
er machinery he could make it for 10
cents, and that 10 cents could be obtained
for il, second. hand after use. Second
hand jute bagging is worth 3 cents per
yard.
When the two bales which had been
used in the experiment reached the Cot
ton Exchange they. were surrounded BY as
many persons as could crowd about them.
Factors as we'll as others examined them,
and the universal opinion expressed was
that an article had been discovered which
would burst the Bagging Trust. One
factor, who was instrumental in brea ! og
up the Cotton Press Association, said that
the cotton cloth would break up the
trust, and that in the near future jute
baggiDg will be thing of the past
"dead-killed by the trust"
In the same paper Messrs. NJ. Levy d
Sons, cotton factors of New Orleans, pub.
lish q card in which they say: "While
we have every reason to believe that two.
pound jute bagging will be sold next
season at about cents per yard, still
cotton bagging, which can be easily
manufactured at 10 cents with proper
machinery, will be cheaper to the Ameri.
can people, and it is desirable for them
to uae it, provided it meets the approval
of the various Cotton Exchanges. We
base this assertion upon the following
figures:
Jute Bsgging-
Z yards jute bagging at 8c......:......... 56
Worth second hand about"....". q
Actual cost Of iute covering"............ 35
Cotton Bagging-
yards cotton baggiDg at 10c.........-. 80