The Greenville times., 1889-05-25

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graduates Memphis on rs bright a.
ture. aud parades some extrayagsut
and generous ideas before tie mereh-
ants and citizens in interior towns a.
to how Memphis intends further to
increase her cotton trade by freezing
out that Of said interior towns. II
says:
/ =The advantages Of this (the Mem
phisl market. have been materially en-
HANGED by the addition Of transpor.s
ton and compress raeilitiss and The
consequent attraction =. cotton Bnv-
err. In addition % these aids comes
reduction in local compress charges
from 81 to 30 cents bale which win
greatly encourage shipments. ThI.
saving Of 20 cents goes indirectly, but
not the less surely, TO the producer Of
the cotton, for he pays the charges.
| The reduction must be met by COM
presses at interior points and this they
eonnot do and continue to operate At
a profit as they handle comparative
~ small amount ofeott0n. The conse-
quenee will be that Memphis will get
thousands of bales from points which
now compress at home and ship direct
10 the seab0ard. $50 With
new machinery, the old system Of COM
pressing to the standard Of 22 l-2 lbs
to the cubic foot win be increased to
80 or 80 lbs.
At Is understood that the Memphis
congresses viii be fully provided with
all the improvements in machinery
next season, something which the com
presses at interior points cannot get
for lack Of the requisite capital.n
For city Of tho size and pretenslons
of Memphis, the foregoing Is ignorant
to degree and narrow to provincial
ism. 1t Is besides offensive, where
right feeling and true trado policy
would dictate generosity and liberality.
The editor must have been off duty
when so crude piece found place In
the Avalanehe's columns. We viii in-
dulge In Il few words In reply, cspeci-
ally to the errors contained.
Greenville is located on the banks OF
that same mighty river flowing soaward
as Memphis; and with lines Of railway
running North, South and East to the
seaboard, our positions as to transpor-
tatlon facilities are seemingly similar.
But II Is presumable that Greenville
was intended to share in the fate
which the Avalanche predicts aud
which Il to rebound to the benefit Of
Memphis.
Grcenvillo has been so often herald
cd through tho columns of the various
Journals in cotton growing Districts
and her history of progress, deycl-
opment and resources promulgated,
that Il Ia not necessary here to re-
| cite again our equipment Of Banking
capital, facilities of Congresses, Rail
roads, Steamboats,, &c, the prominence
of our cotton market, ability and enter
prise Of our merchants, &c. Hence we
will answer this slightly arrogant
stretch Of commercial. imagination, BY
merely saying that we have no trade that
will be suffered TO drift into the hands
Of Memphis. We have as good compress
machinery as ever existed at Memphis
or elsewhere, and ample capital to se-
cure any improvement whenever il is
found practicable and desirable that
the existing patents must retire.
A departure from the present sys-
tenn Of COMPRISING we are told will
reyolutionize the entire method Of
boxing on plantations, a change we
imagine will take many years to ac-
complish, a. but little more density
can be attained IN COMPRISING bales
than are at present boxed, as has been
proven by the heavy 20 inch Morse
Press. In order to secure more
density with uniform pressure, box.
ing and baling win have 10 be done
as in Bombay, with hydraulic pres
sure, where bales are of uniform
weight of 600 lbs compressed into
square packages and held with steel
wire instead of iron bands. II
would be useless, to attempt to
hold them with the present bands.
against such pressure. The 90 inch
Morse has frequently doubled bales
and put oven more than 35lbs TO the
cubic foot, But for various reasons 1t
was, Objectionable as first of all il
would require complete armour of
iron bands to withstand the pressure
and adding surplus weight which rail-
roads and steamships would not car
ry FREQ. Besides the injury claimed by
cotton brokers to tho staple would be
large consideration.
Memphis has been supplied this sea-
sou from districts that were peculiarly
fortunate in large yield. This, with
the increased acreage in these districts,
has swollen the figures to avery hand
some gain over any previous season,
which we are pleased to chronicle and
while we wish her continued success
and annual additions to her cotton
receipts, we are of the opinion that her
wealth, reduction in compress charges,
improved machinery, etc, will not in
duce one bale from the interior towns
whore previously such cotton was
handled. The localization of the cot
ton trade has come TO stay. II has too
many and too manifest advantages not
to be permanent. But if 1t had not,
the memory of the evils and opprcs-