The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-11-15
Big COTTON OIL MILL
Nov Being Successfully Op-
Grated in this City
RUNNING DAY AND NIGHT
something About this Plant, and
What it is 4oing.

mills in this city at full speed day
and night, turning put about two
thousand gallons per Elay of the very
best oil manufactured from cotton
seed. To those WHIP have never
been through large loil mill trip
of inspection throughlthis plant will
be a revelation, and d wen those who
are, familiar with tpeir operation |
should 60 down, now that it is run
ming, and see what large enterprise
these people have eStd dblished here.
1t is situated only ! few hundred
wards southeast of thd passenger de-
pot of the SeabOard kir Line Rail
way, where the old 4IcDOugall cot
ton mill stood years 3go, and gives
out a rather unpreteptious appear
ance from outside, buE it is strictly a
business concern FROM the front en-
trance to the rear exit There are at
present three buildings seed
house, 78x1SO feet; the main build
ing, 4Ox14O feet, and the hull house,
5Ox10O feet.
The former buildinghas a capacity
of $500 tons of cotton seed, and is
nearly full now, which means they
have enough raw mat Prial on hand
to operate several months. The
main building is two stpries high, and
contains al The niI rkOducino ma
chinery, with a small wing for buSi-
ness Office. The only machinery in
the hull house is vefy simple auto
matte apparatus for filing bags with
the hulls. !!
Under the main bWlding is two
very large oil tanks. lAs the manu-
featured product is taken from the
seed it goes into one If these tanks,
or watts, where it is allowed to settle,
when it is pumped info large iron
atorage tanks in the rear, some IS or
100 feet distant. There it remains
until shipment is ready, and is
\ pumped direct from these tanks to
the large railway tanks now used for
transporting oil.
Everything about the factory is up
10 date, and put in with a view to
speed, thoroughnesS and economy in
labor, so much so that very few men
are required to operate the entire
plant. Outside Manager Logan's
office is a pair of large wagon scales
Wagons coming in with load OF
seed are driven on this. The Man
ager turns flom his desk, balances
the scales, pokeS his head through a
window and learns the name Of the
owner, whereupon he turns to the
desk and puts down the gross weight
while the wagon is driven around to
steam elevator which takes the
seed right from the wagon into the
seed house. The teamster theI
drives back on the scales, weighl
again, gets bis receipt and voucher
for bis money.
If the seed are brought in by rail
the car goes right on big railway
scales, is weighed in like manner ant
unlOaded the same way.
Steam conveyors take the seet
from the seed house right into tn
six big lint machines in the mali
building. Here every particle o
the lint left bv the gin is taken from
the seed, then they 60 into anothe
machine full of small knives whicI
cuts them, into small fragments
then into a machine which hull
them, then into another whicl
separates the hull from tn
kernel, or oil producing part
Here one conveyor takes the hull
across to the hull house, while tn
residue is taken into the large mill
and thence into the steam heaters
Then it strikes the first hand process
Cloths have to be put into the; pres
BY hand and the compressed cake
covered with cloth) have 20 b
taken out of the cake press and pu
INTO the oil presses by hand. Like
wise the dry cakes have to be take
nom the oil presses and put into tn
meal grinders, but the workmen hav
already become so expert in the te,
eays they have been working that
u done with clock work regularity
sPfess being filed and emptied ever
zen minutes by two men.
:, as before stated the oil goes int
:ne tanks. The dry cakes take
nOm the presses are then run throug
I'll %ll that regrinds them into mea
TLe mere Is not a particle. of vast
~ mt which comes from the see
T. b.1sg large battings, is put in reguls
s' and while it is not worth th