Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
1O0-TON OIL MILL.
The Building and Ground Pur-
chased by {. Van Wrinkle.
MACHINERY TO BE PUT IN
AS Soon as Tt Can be Supplied by
the Manufacturers, and the
New Crop of Seed
Utilized.

Yesterday Mr.. E. Van Wrinkle, acting FOR
himself and others, purchased the grounds
aud building of the iron rolling mill com
pany on the North Side, and win imme-
diately begin to put in machinery for cot
ton seed oil mill that will have capacity
of 100 tons per day.
The property embraces seven acres of
land so admirably situated for the use to
which it is to be put that Mr.. Van Wrinkle
says it looks as if nature had designed it
for that very purpose. The building now
on the ground is almost new, having been
built about year ago by the rolling mill
company It is 100xl20 feet in dimensions,
with lofty vaulted roof. Such changes as
are necessary will be made for the cotton
seed oil mill. The necessary machinery
will be ordered at once, and by the time the
new crop of seed IS on the market this mill
will be prepared to handle 100 tons of it
every day. The building is large enough
for 200-ton plant which will be added as
the demand grows.
situation for the mill anywhere he would
choose, but after examining the rolling mill
property he preferred to buy it, it being so
admirably situated Tor the business.
A refinery will also be put in and the re-
fined oil will be pumped direct from the oil
mill 20 the packery near by, saving all
handling when Mr. Hoxie's business gets
nearly all the best Texas oil is shipped to
the Armours and Swifts and other packing
houses, and this will be the only oilmill
ever built where all its products will be
utilized entirely at home. The cattle feed
ers will take all the meal and hull products,
and this means the feeding of over 10000
head at our doors.
This is private enterprise. but some few
of our best citizens will be partners in this
mill. Everything will be organized on a
cash cost basis, and no stock scheme will be
sprung on our people.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle is president of the well
known Van Wrinkle gin and machinery
company of Atlanta, Ga, and has a branch
factory also in Dallas, which has been doing
business there over twelve years. The Van
Wrinkle machinery, gins and oil mills are
known all over the Southern states.
This enterprise was secured for Fort
Worth by the efforts of 'Tuck'' Boaz, who
found that MIR. Van WInkle had almost con-
cluded arrangements for putting up mill
in another town, and the telegraph was put
to work so successfully as to bring him
here, and here he stops.
CATTLE FEEDING.
Mir. Van Wrinkle furnished TIE GAZETTE
with some figures showing the advantages
possessed by Fort Worth over any other
city in the world for a cotton seed oil mill
That advantage is due to the presence of
the stockyards and the packery. The oil
will be piped direct from the mill to the
packery and there utilized. This saves
charges. The hull and cake will
be sold to cattle feeders, who will fatten
cattle for sale to the packery. That saves
shipping charges. Two thousand pounds
of the null and $50 pounds of the meal cake
will feed a steer ninety to one hundred days
and put him in prime condition. This hull
and cake will cost So It now costs our
feeders 213, and that is what it costs feed
erS elsewhere. When cattleraisers dis
cover that they not only have a good mar
ket at Fort Worth for the sale of their cat
tie, but that they can get cotton seed stuff to
fatten the stock 30 per cent cheaper
here than elsewhere, the stock will be
shipped here, These two industries-the
packery and the oil mill-will supplement
each other in the work of making a great
and Strengthening point of
Fort Worth. The oil mill leeds the cattle
and the cattle feed the packery.