The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-16

age five OF six feet in length, aud is used for
the better class of bags and bagging; also
for binder Irvine used in tying wheat.
The butts or stubbIe left IN the ground
are pulled up by hand and the bark peeled
OFF by hand and packed in bales. This is
known as jute butts 1t is darker than
jute, being discolored by water, and inferior
in strength TO iute- The bulk OF our cotton
bagging is made from jute butts. At
present jute butts are worth S27 per ton in
bond ia New York; the duty is S. per ton,
and jute bagging Is worth from 500 % $40
per ton.
The only haudwork about the
manufacture of palmetto fiber is
gathering il in the country, and
putting it in and removing il from the
tanks in the factory. All the rest is me
chanical work an element Of economy that
the jute does not have, which is all hand
work. and then must be shipped across the
sea to northern factories, and when manu-
featured t0ere must be shipped south"
FAVORABLE COMPARISONS.
Mr.. Warrand says that two tons Of the
green plant will make one ton Of dry leaves
and stems and this one ton Of dry material
will produce S25 worth of fannie acid,
SIG 25 worth Of bagging fiber and 81 worth
of fine refuse that can be utilized in paper
manufacturer gross moneyed production of
SAL p for one ton of dried leaves,
not more than $40 to s12. He says that it
will require ten tons of green pine straw to
make one ton Of fiber, and from thirteen TO
to fourteen tons of cotton stalk fiber, thus
showing that the saw palmetto is more pro-
duct of fiber, as well as being less costly
material. He says that the two-pound
iute is the standard. bagging, whereas
palmetto bagging weighing but
IA pounds to the yard will be as strong as
the ? 4 jute, and will not discolor the cotton
like it is claimed that pine. straw bsgging
will.
WILL STOP IMPoRTATIONs OF BURLAPs.
For the manufacture of guano bags Mr..
Warrand says that the palmetto fiber is far
superior TO the jute and cheaper, as the bur
laps now in use are imported from Scotland
and burlaps made from palmetto fiber will
not rot as soon as the cheap burlaps do.
To convey an idea of the immense amount
Of burlaps used for fertilizer bags in this
city, Mr.. Warrand says that Hammond,
Hull q &c. aud the Baldwin Fertilizer
Company each purchase as much as $75, 900
worth of burlaps annually. and another fer
tilizer company, after having made a
pur chase of $4,000 worth in one year
found that their stock was not large
enough. The other fertilizer companies of
this city, he says, buy in proportionately
large quantities. This immense sum of
money has been going abroad, but the
discovery of the palmetto fiber seems likely
likely in the future to stop this great out
flow of money, as the palmetto burlaps will
excel in quality, and, by being cheaper to
manufacture, will supply the home trade.
MIR. Warrand says that the fannie acid
which is extracted from the leaf and stem
OF the plant will pay all the expenses of
preparing the fiber for the manufacture
OF Irvine, cotton bagging, paper and guano
bags.
AN EXPERIMENTAL PLANT.
1t is proposed TO organize a company in
this city with capital of $4,000, to be in
creased later on TO $780, 900 or more, and
Mr.. Warrand says that if the people will
show that they have confidence in the en-
terprise there will be no lack Of northern
capital, not only to enlarge the proposed
plant, but TO invest in other plants here. Mr.
Warrand says that an experimental plant,
costing $4,000, will give employment TO
about 100 hands at the works. to say nothing
of those employed in the country in the col
lection of the palmetto leaves. He says
that the saw palmetto lands will yield an
average Of one ton to three acres, and from
property which is almost valueless.
THEREBY HANGS A TALE.
Mr.. Warrand says the sheriff of Coffee
county knocked Off a tract of 400 acres of
saw palmetto lands for Sl2.50-for the
whole tract-and the successful bidder i'm
medlately began to bemoan his i'll luck IN
having the lands on his hands. This land
is susceptible of bringing its owner a
revenue Of over $500 year by gathering
and shipping the palmetto leaves as soon
as factories are started in the south
The palmetto growth does not deterior-
ate the SOIL as it takes the most of its sub
stance from the air and water. From being
the most useless of the plant kingdom, il
now promises to stand In the front rank.
in,
in territory where it is needed as a
covering for cotton and for fertilizer bags,
to accommodate the immense phosphate
deposits in Florida and South Carolina. 1t
seems to have been one of the wise provis-
ions OF Providence that it should grow in
such close proximity to the cotton fields and
phosphate deposits of the south.
NO PLACE LIKE SAVANNAH.
Mr.. Warrand says that there is no place
SO well suited for the location of the many
factories which must spring up to prepare
the palmetto fiber as Savannah, with its
rail and river facilities for receiving the
material, and the splendid rail and steam
ship facilities for distributing the products
OF the plant TO the markets of the north
and northwest. He says there is no good
reason why the hides of the South Att ntic
states should be shipped north, when pal
metto will furnish the fannie acid to tan
the leather in this section. Tanneries in
Boston are paying S28 per tonifor oak bark.
and after the tannic acid is extracted the
residuum is a total waste, whereas when
the fannie acid is extracted from the pal
metto leaf and stem the most valuable part
of the material Is left, every part Of which
can be utilized in the manufacture of tex
tile fabric.
Mr.. Warrand's experiments were dill
gently prosecuted, and had the financial aid
of Capt. John L. Hammond,
president of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank, and president of the great
fertilizer works of Hammond, Hull & Co,
and the inventor received material aid from
Mr.. Clavius Phillips, cotton broker of this
city, each of which coadjutors have third
interest in the patents.
APPROACH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ERA.
In concluding quite lengthy interview,
MIR. Warrand said that he believes that his
inventions will be of incelculable benefit TO
Savannah, which can be made ono of the
greatest manufacturing cities in the coun-
try by the establishment Of cotton bagging
factories, paper mills, box factories, tam
neries, shoe and harness factories and mat
trsss factories, as the unlimited supply of
the raw material in this section must lead to
the establishment of varied industries.
and no other city has such natural advan-
tages as Savannah. The establishment of
these factories will invite an influx of in
duStries and thrifty workna0Dla and hujld