The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-08
OILS FOR MANY PURPOSES.
An INDUSTRY ABOUT WHICH MOST
PEOPLE KNOW VERY LITTLE.

and support 500 PeopIe-rhe Field
for oil Mills.
The manufacture Of oils in Savannah
may be classed as a successful industry
yielding more than bank rates Of interest
on the investment.
Savannah has three extensive oil works.
( The 5. p. Shotter Company. the South
ern Cotton on Mills and the Tide Water
/ Oil Company. The aggregate capital in
vested in these plants is not less than
100000
The two plants now in operation give
/ employment to 40 hands. The wages paid
| annually are $4,000 The number of people
| dependent for a living on the industry is
/ 800, including families of employees.
| The Southern Cotton Oil Mill represents
| an investment of about $4,000. In some
/ years the company pays more, in some
/ years less than bank rates Of interest
/ On the average. 1t pays more than per
cent The cotton seed milling season lasts
six or seven months. and the mills are
run night and day during that time en-
ploying 100 hands. twenty of whom are
skilled mechanics. The weekly pay roll
reaches about 500.
From 1900 to 1900 tons of cotton seed
are annually consumed in the plant.
When the mill was built the Central
( railroad and the Savannah, Florida ana
| Western assured such rates which, taken
/ in connection with outward rates on the
| product, about equalzed the advantages
| and disadvantages of the situation.
/ These rates We're in effect for four or
five years, but upon the Central railroad
going into receivers hands the manage
ment Of the mills say they were raised
~ h..
claimed that engagements made by his
predecessors were not binding and as
natural consequence a great deal of ter
ritory formerly tributary to Savannah
was thus cut Off The Plant system has
lived up TO its original guarantee with
the mill.
Last year the prices paid for cotton seed
averaged $3.50 per ton, while in Texas the
prices only averaged s. per ton. The
prices in the east We're based on the fun
value Of the seed fertilizers. In Texas
fertilizers are not needed. consequently
any price received for the seed over and
above carriage TO the shipping point IS
Few people are aware of the extent to
which cattle feeding has been taken up
since the Introduction Of cotton seed hulls
and meal as a cattle food The com
bined mills in Atlanta sold in 1889 about
1900 tons of hulls. During the season 1881
So they viii sell 10000 tons, mostly fed
within radius of fifty miles of Atlanta.
In 1891 and oao 1892 sava n AIM used
feed. This year about 400 tons
will be fed. Georgia is producing cotton
at starvation prices, while thous-
ands of cattle We're virtually allowed to
starve last winter. At the same time large
quantities of hulls and meal were shipped
I TO Cincinnati, which paid So a ton for the
hulls and shipped hay TO the south for
s. or $40 ton. Cattle on the hoof, well
fattened, are a scarce article at IS per 100,
life weight, while cotton brings about 6
ago train {n0''G Of fattened steers steer
left Atlanta for Jersey city. Pound
for pound this train load was worth 80
per cent. more than if it had been
cotton.
Cotton seed meal fed in connection with
bulls is the cheapest and richest known
food for fattening purposes. n steer
weighing 900 pounds will be fattened in
100 days on this food at a cost of IS or Sc,
and Will gain 200 pounds During that
time the value of the manure will near
about pay the cost of the feed. The prices
OF hulls in savannah range from 81 per
ton IN the fall to s. per ton in the spring.
Cattle feeding and fattening could be made
very profitable on the numerous truck
can easily be had in this market and
the fattened cattle can be sold here with
equal readinss. The plant in Savannah is
ample for the cotton seed produced within
its territory, but there is a wide field open
Tor oil refining, for varnish and paint
manufacturing from cotton seed oil, and
other industries where a cheap vegetable
oil is required.
The S p. Shotter Company is an incor-
r porated company, with paid in minimum
capital of 100000. with the privilege of
increasing TO $3.50, 600 The Morning News
; has no means of ascertaining the exact
: information in regard 10 the earnings OF
the company. The business was started
: in an humble way and it has been phe-
nomenally successful, 50 successful, in
fact, that the STANDARD Oil Company is
a heavy stockhoder in the company now
The plant is an extensive one, having some
; eighteen or twenty stills As the crude
nj haG n he o.
and separated according to its specific
gravity, probably five stills only
dtstination. Each still usually
: holds forty barrels The average day's
d, work would therefore be a consumption
of 200 barrels of low grade rosin or 5,OOC
. barrels per month. or $1,000 barrels a
year. Rosin IS capable of yielding from
70 per cent. to So per cent. in merehanta-
a BILE products, such as rosin spirits rosir
. oil of various grades and residual pitch
: The output of the plant is therefore not
! less than $4,000 barrels a year of finished
\ products. 1t is claimed that rosin oil car
: be produced at cost of to 10 cents pei
I gallon, according to the amount of redis
! filling or refining it has been subjected to
I The market prices range from to Il
| cents per gallon, according to grade Very
! little is known in the south to what tech
meal purposes rOsin oil is put to- 1t will
therefore, be of interest to enumeratt
the principal products in which it is
large component. If ten barrels of a Ger
. tain grade of rosin oil be boiled together
with one barrel of lime and about sis
| of seven barrels of water for severa
/ hours, a butterlike mass will result, which
- is known as the common axil grease fol
{ / which three to six cents per pound Il
4 paid. This grease or rather lime soap /,
an excellent lubricator and forms tn,
: basis of all lubricating compounds Tht
( common railroad car grease consists main
O. / " of this compound, only blacl
Virginia oil is largely added
The cheaper grades of printers ink con
G sist of a varnish made from rosin oil
rosin soap, rOsin and lamp black Nearly
- all varnishes contain more or less rosii
+ oil. Linseed oil, train oil and numerous
@ other oils are usually sophisticated witt
8 rosin oil. Brewers pitch is a mixture q
the residue from rosin oil stills, common
n rosin and pitch resulting from the dis
: tillaton of wood tar Shoemakers. pitcl
!. has the same components only in differ
Il ent proportions. Rosin oil is also largely
=. used in manufacturing cheap SOAPS Cheai
|. paints all contain rosin oil to a sreat =
e or lesser extent In itself 1t is an excelIen
: lubricating oil as it is free from acid q
@ corroding substances. A still better In
d bricating oil is obtained by mixing rosii
d oil with tallOw or bonefat and heavy min
], cral oils. obtained as by-products of Goa
Y oil distillation.
Il The esta bIisbmppt of rOsin oil e4ftt-