The Portland daily press., 1892-03-31
The Cotton Picker:

As q business proposition,
It is unuuest1onable that no other
staple known to man has attained CON-
mercial importance equal to that OF co.,
ton.
It is most certainly true that no othe
article enters so extensively into tn
aggregate value of the commerce OF thu
United States.
Cold and indisputable census calcula-
tions bear out these statements, and were
no accurate figures attainafle, there re-
mains, nevertheless, no room for doubt
upon the subject to one who pauses for
moment to reflect, that aside from the
few barbarians in remote sections OF the
earth who are content to clothe them
selves in smiles as with q garment, there
is no human being who does not make
habitual, daily use of cotton in some
form.
The cotton crop, therefore, may justly
be considered the most important in the
agricultural interests of America.
Yet it is evident to child that in some
respects its cultivation and garnering
have been hitherto conducted on ante
diluvian methods that would scarcely
have been tolerated fifty years ago in the
growth and harvesting OF any other nat
ural products.
The use of cotton is worldwide and
universal, its manufacture has called into
play the highest and most wonderful APP
plications OF human genius to mechani-
cal appliances, yet until very recently it
does not seem to have occurred to any,
one that discovery fully as important as
that of the process of ginning, carding,
spinning or weaving cotton was involved
in the solution of the problem how best to
gather the raw product in the field. In
other words, while generations of me-
chanics have exhausted the best efforts OF
brain and genius upon the development
carding machine, the spinning jenny
and the p wer, loom, no one seems to have
realized that of greater and far wider
reaching importance than all these
would be the crea ion of a machine by
which the labor cost Of gat herring the
ripened staple might be reduced to
The fact that this enormous crop OF
wol i'd wide use is today practically all
picked by hand suggested to far sighted
mechanic a held OF operations 1of me-
chanical invention that Will revolution
ize the cotton growing industry even
more radically than did Whitney's dis
covery of the Gin or Watts su ccessful
application of the power of steam to the
operation of the loom. In other words,
there was born in this mans brain an
inspiration which has furnished the
world with NEE hanicai contrivance OF
parallel ma ure and of greater Importance
| than McCormick's kindred invention OF
the grain reaper.
The device t. which has been given the
simple but all significant title OF the
| Cotton Picker has supplied Walt1ng
world with a machine which will, with
the precision of aut omatism ana the un-
tagging diligence OF mechanical per-
sisl fence, gather every pouna OF cotton
that can be grown upon TINS earth at
labor cost of less than 20 per cent of the
expense of the present annoying, tedious,
cosl ly and not altogether certain method
] of hand picking.
/ tt is this machine. its construction,
operation and recorded success, that we
ask YOU to consider from financial
standpoint. The company controlling
the patent on this machine are now Offer
ing a limited amount Of stock fo- sale at
their Office, 81 Milk st. Intelligent minds
must be impressed with its intrinsic
| value.