El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-30

At your convention to he held at Dallas on
feature for discussion will be the baling OF
cotton, with view to relief from the present
barbarous and extravagant methods.
At that time you will be given an opportun-
ity of investigating the merits of the Lowry
Cotton Press. one of these presses will be
operated for the purpose of exhibiting it to
you.
The Lowry Press presents the most practi-
cal solution of the baling of cotton ever pre-
sented to the world. The principle employed
by this press is altogether different from any
thing heretofore presented and combines the
essentials to any practical propositions: viz.
simplicity. durability. inexpensive adaptibil-
fty, economy and competition. 1t makes a
bale uniform in size which solves the ques-
tiQn to the necessity of any change in the
present planters gin box.
The Lowry Press is small machine, not Oc-
cupying more than a space of six feet square,
and may be set up in the present ginnery,
cit her in the place of the present square box,
or it can be set up alongside of the present
box at an insignificant expenditure of labor.
This is true for the reason that no mechanism
peculiar to the Lowry Press is necessary to
connect it with your present gin plant All
that is necessary is simply that the lint cot
ton coming from the condenser be emptied in
to tie hopper which is over the press, and the
press dees the rest. There is no delicate me-
chanism about the Lowry Press to get out of
order and there is nothing connected with its
operation that any one of ordinary intelli-
gence cannot understand. 1t will be placed
easily within the reach of any one owning a
ginnery. The dimensions of the bales will be
absolutely controlled mechanically and the
density to which the COTTON will be compress
ed will also be controlled mechanically.
The Lowry Press can be constructed to
make any size bale and any density up to 100
pounds to the cubic foot, but to obtain the
best and most economical results the bales
will be made 10 inches in diameter, 80 inches
long. weighing about $50 pounds and showing
a density of about As pounds of cotton to the
cuoic foot. From IL to Is horsepower will be
required to do this work. which is little, IL
any. more than the power now used to press
Cotton baled by the Lowry Press can be
more thoroughly examined att any place and
ing compressed; hence the present hands
through which cottpn now passes will In no
way be affected other than that the recon-
pressing OF cotton at steam congresses will
The company owning the Lowry Press will
not buy cotton, but Will introduce the press
through well-known cotton dealers. thereby
Immediately creating market t for the cotton
ers generally become acquainted with the
system the competition will be greater for
not be necessary for cotton buyer to own a
composing for the cotton. the work q COM
having beea done at the gin plant. There
will be no attempt made to m0nopOlize the
COTTON business by the owners of the Lowry
Cotton Press. The congresses will be SO
widely scattered that no one corporation or
Individual can successfully attempt to do so.
If proper baling of cotton in the most econ
omical manner Will save the cotton states of
North America thirty or forty millions of
dollars annually, and we are convinced that
the affirmative Of this proposition is true. the
Lowry Press solves the problem and will save
this enormous amount of money and it will
be accomplished by the present ginneries
without involving outside parties or necesst-
tating reconstruction of gin plants.
This then being accomplished SO close to
the producers. it is only reasonable to assume
that the main benefits, from the time the first
bale is pressed by the Lowry Press at the gin.
will accrue to the producers of cotton.
PLANTERS COMPRESS COMPANY.
Address correspondence to
K. j. BAKER, Sherman, Texas.
OR
F.M. WAKEFIELD, Treas,
Box $685., Boston, Mass.
New York, April 3, 1898.