The morning news., 1899-06-07
WANT ROUND BALES USED.
AMERICAN COTTON co. TRYING TO
WORK THIS SECTION.

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officials of the Company in savan-
nah to See Leading Railroad Men.
Manager BAH Says I13 Presses
Were in Use Last Season in the
Southwest and That 400 More VIII
Be i'm Use Next Season in That
Section and the Southeast-Says
the Railroads Have Agreed 10 Re-
ceive the New Bafes as Compress
ed Cotton, a Concession That Was
Desired-How the Presses Are
Leased.
Three representatives of the American
Cotton Company were In the city yesterday
to get among the leading railroad officials
and talk over their new method of baling
cotton. They were Mr.. d. c. Ball, mana
ser Of the operating department OF the
company; Mr.. John A., Sargent, an old
railroad man and now traffic manager of
the company; and Capt. Thomas b. Blake
of Atlanta, who is general agent for the
company for Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina ana Florida. Mr.. Ball
makes New York, The general headquar-
ters of the company, his home. while Mr..
Sargent halls from ST. Louis.
The gentlemen intended to pay visit TO
Vice President John NJ Egan Of the Cen
trail Railroad during the afternoon. They
were anxious 10 talk over the question of
the cylindrical bales standing with the
roads. Mr.. Bah was seen with reference
tA In ba
said, would detain him and his compan-
ions for but the day From here they will
gel away to other places that are involved
in their plan for the general Introduction
of the round bale throughout this section.
MIR. Ball said 1lS presses were introduced
and put in operation last season in Texas,
Mississippi and one or two other states OF
that section, and that next season his
company is confident that there Will be
400 more. The establishment of the agency
at Atlanta with Capt. Blake in charge
means that this section is to see bit of
energetic work. Mr.. Bah said the COM
pany would have begun sooner in the
southeast TO get the presses in use, but
that al places could not be worked at
once, and the Southwest claimed first at
tention.
Il am confident" said Mr. Ball, "that
we can help the cotton business of Sa-
vannah. That is TO be our endeavor. We
recognize it as a good port, offering fine
harbor facilities. That is shown by its
record in handling the cotton crop So
vannah Will be a shipping point we will
favor"
The manager of the company is of
course, enthusiastic when il comes to a
discussion of the lap bale the American
Cotton people put UP for the market He
saws = II the fine things q abOut II fbat milo
be expected from one desiring to see it
grow into general use. FIe is confident that
1t will not be long before round bales are
very common.
The gentlemen do not feel uneasy about
the railroads and determinations against
the round bales They say the roads have
already agreed to accept the staple, baled
under the new system, as csanpressed a
concession that was desired. II has been
the refusal of The railroads to carry the
round bales for, less than the square ones
that has interfered TO a greater extent
than anything else with the general use of
the new process. There are two or three
companies making the new presses in the
field, and all were hampered for some time
by the roads of this section taking the DO
stion that cotton packed in the round
bales should have 10 bear the same freight
charges as that received uncompressed and
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companies congresses.
Another objection to the use of the new
press has been offered that Mr. Ball thinks
does not hold. That is the policy OF the
company in placing the presses. Ii will
not sell them outright. The titles remaiif
in the company. The presses are leased.
and so much per hundred pounds for the
cotton baled on them is charged Mr. Ball
said:
Where desired the company will enter
into a cotton agreement binding itself to
purchase during the cotton season, all
cotton put on its presses, and at price
that repays the rental. 1t does not require
that a single bale of that cotton be soil
TO it. But every bale, with all of its ad-
vantages and savings, can be placed upon
the market in open competition, and can
be handled by any buyer to the estab-
lished market at the mills, with al OF its
savings. It's savings are far more than
the rental charge. Therefore, any buyer
can afford to pay the minimum price guar
anteed, and make money on IT,
BY this system, and the minimum basis.
the ginner and the farmers, first make
all the savings In the cheaper making of
the bale, and in the cheaper covering, re-
quiring no bagging and ties. Second. an
immediate market is at once guaranteed
for every bale of cotton as made. Third.
price is made, based upon any OF the
larger markets that repays the rental
and assures the cotton raiser of getting
a price that, based upon any of the larger
markets that may be selected, means the
marketing Of his cotton at the minimum
expense as compared with the old square
bale yet at the same time places his bale
where. in the open competitive market.