The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-06
A BID FOR A NEW INDUSTRY.
BRUNSWICK AND PORT ROYAL
WANT THE COTTON SEED DE-
Inter PLANT.

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Inducements Savannah Has TO Of
fertile Machinery TO He Manu-
featured in Atlanta by the Van
Wrinkle COmpany-The DeIinter
Meeting With Opposition From
Those Interested i'm the Cotton
Seed oil Industry-It WOuId Iniure
Their Competition With The Eng
liSh Product.
Mr.. o. T. Bugg, the inventor of the COT
ton seed delinter, which has been de-
scribed IN the Morning News. and which
has already been in operation in this CITY
expects to locate his first plant here +
the necessary inducements can be Sc
cured
Mr.. Bugg appeared before the last meet.
ing of the industrial committee and mai,
brief statement as to what could be
done with such plant, the figure at which
it can be set up, and the estimated profits
which would arise from its operations.
The machine has passed the experimental
stage and is now demonstrated success
While no definite steps have been taken
it is likely that the industrial committee
will see what can be done toward Offer
ing sufficient inducements to get the first
plant located here.
Both Brunswick and Port Royal have
already made bids for the plant. and both
places, with the assistance of the rail.
roads entering them, have offered hand
some inducemont for its location Bruns-
wick, it is understood, agrees to let The
company have a good wharf front ana
practically all the buildings necessary at
very small nominal rental for certain
number of years. The Southern railroad
which reaches Brunswick, owns a large
portion of the property which has been
offered the company on these terms. Port
Royal, 1t is said, has offered a good, large
wharf frontal at a nominal rental, in or
der to secure the plant.
1t would seem that Savannah should
make an effort to have this plant located
here. While the company expects ulu-
mately to have these plants located in
all the prominent southern coast cities
it is a matter of interest and Importance
to secure the first one for the reason
that it will give a prestige, and then it
may be some time before the others are
set up.
Mr.. Bugg recently received letter from
Mr.. E. Van Wrinkle of the Van Wrinkle
gin and machinery works of Atlanta. in
which the writer well known and com
petent machinist himself, speaks in the
highest terms of the new delinter. the prin-
ciple of which, he states, is about as near
perfection as could possibly be secured
Mr.. Van Wrinkle comments on the sim
plicity of the machine. which works on
the principle of an emery disk revolving
rapidly near a stationary brush, and both
of these surfaces rub against the seed. He
states that in his opinion the machine can
easily delint from eight to ten tons of cot
ton seed in a day of twenty-four hours and
perhaps more. Mr. Van Wrinkle is himself
interested in the project. and will manu-
facture the delinters to be used in putting
up these plants.
One difficulty with which the company
will have to contend, Mr.. Bugg says, is op-
position from the cotton seed oil industry
in this country. The cotton seed oil men
are fighting the project In many places. on
account of the fact that it would to great
extent interfere with their industry under
the present methods of manufacture of
cotton seed oil in the United States.
This is true not alone in Savannah, but
work that the delinter is going to do is I'M
derstood. The trouble arises from the fact
that the delinted seed is worth good deal
more than the seed which has the lint
upon it. The reason of this is that, with
the English method of manufacture of
cotton seed oil, more oil and more oil
cake can be made from the delnted seed
on account of the fact that the hull and
the part of the kernel that sticks to it is
not lost
The company can therefore afford to
pay more for cotton seed than the cot
ton oil mills in this country, because they
could get nearly twice as much for the de-
Tinted seed together with the b-products
as for the seed with the lint upon it. This
state of affairs would of course put the
American cotton oil mills out of COMPETE
ton with the English mills, until they put
in the improved machinery and used the
delinted seed with the English process Of
manufacture. The only reason that the
American cotton oil mills can now COM
pete with those in England, is that they
get their seed at a very low price compar-
atively speaking, while the bulk Of the
seed used by the English mills comes
from Egypt and this seed is used on ac-
count of the fact that it has no lint what
ever upon it.
1t is said, however that the American
seed is superior to the Egyptian seed. and
that after it has been delinted 1t can be
used to far better advantage. For these
reasons the delinted American seed would
in large quantities seek the English mar
ket. and it is at once apparent why the
American manufacturers of cotton seed
oil should oppose any plan which is
going to injure their competition with
the foreign product or which might
compel them to substitute for their pres
ent machinery the same as is used in
England. However this may be. it looks
as If there were going to be a revolution
in the manufacture of cotton seed oil,
and it might be a good thing for Savan-
nab to be its starting point
TO Investigate GIOver's killing.