The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-04-16
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Patrons Of RoundIap Gin Plants Tell Of
Their Big Profits.

onstrated the Incompatible superiority
Of the American Cotton comrany's
roundlap bale. Not only were farmers
benefited who had their cotton put up
la roundlap bales, but even the pa
irons Of old style gins profted by the
presence of roundlap competition.
Farmers all over the cotton state
have written letters to the owners OF
ronndlap plants telling of the profit
that has come TO them from having
tleir cotton put up In roupdlap bales.
Mr.. w, +, Hartley, Sr., who patron zed
the Greenyille, Ala, plant, wrote Feb
ruary 3, 1900:
THE most important point in the
roundlap bales .avor to the farmer Is
the advance In price above that OF the
square bale. 1t has averaged the on
tire past season 80 per bale more than
the square bale. More than $4,000 has
0een placed in circula ion By the ad
vauced price caused by this one press"
Mr.. h. M. Rogers also wrote from
Greenville, Ala; IL have received
from three-eighths to one-half cent per
pound more than the market price
here for square bales. The roundlap
bale is godsend to the farmers, and
has saved them thousands Of dollars In
a few months"
Mr. j. ID. Reilly, centerville, Miss,
wrote Dec. 4, 1899: Another advant-
age TO farmers is that Roundlap cot
ton brings such good price that the
buyers of square cotton have been
forced TO put their prices up. Thus
all farmers are benefited in town
where there is Roundlap press"
Mr.. K. Il. Simonton, Temple, Texas,
Noxember l2, 1890. "I have received
from 81 SO to SO 80 per bale more for
my cotton than II | had ginned and
sold in square bales Besides know
that the pricts the American Cotton
Company has paid for seed cotton
have been the cause OF those buying
the square bale paying from 10 TO 30
points more for it,"
Mr.. j. l.. Wood of Venus, Texas,
December 3, 1899, wrote: sold to
the American Cotton Company at its
East Waco plant the first bale of cot
ton that was ever ginned by the
Roundlap bale system in Waco, and
have been selling my cotton in the
seed to you since that time. For the
last three years, including 1899, l
have sold my cotton 10 your Venus
plant, can safely say that have
made 50 more per bale by selling to
you in the seed than ] would have
made IL l had ginned it into square
bales, besides saving gread deal of
annoyance with the street buyers. In
view of the fact that the custom GIN
ners and those opposed to the Rounp-
lap system say that y9u DC not let the
farmer have cotton seed, l will say
that have always gotten seed when
l asked for it,"
Mr.. +. B. Hall, a merchant and
planter of Waynesboro, Ga. wrote on
Nov. 10, 1899, to Messrs Wilkins &
Jones, owners of the RoundlRp plant
at that place: II had one lot OF 90
bales turned out by you and without
saying nlything to Rnbody / put the
samples on the market. All of the
buyers in town bid upon the same,
thinking IL square bale cotton. One
of the buyers bid 5.75, another 5.s7l<
and another 5.95, the latter remark
ing at the time that he was really bid
ding full sixteenth more than the
lot OF cotton was worth. Without
knowing what bids had received--in
fact did not tell you that anybody
had bid on it-you offered and paid me
g so for the lot Of cotton, which was a
clear difference of 55 points in favor
of the Roundlap bale. / believe that
the Roundlap bale is the bale OF the
future as 1t effects large saving OF
waste and enables the planter to get a
higher PAIGE for his cotton
Mr.. Abram Williams, November 10
1899, wrote Messrs wilkins a. Jones;
To-day had two Roundlap bales Of
cotton packed on your RoundlRp bale
press, for which you paid me 7sl cents
u pound, when the same grade of cot
ton in square bales here today is only
bringing to ~ cents pound
Mr.. j. s. Collins, Pike Road, Ala,
Nov IL, 1899, wrote; 81 have gotten
for my cotton 80 so more per bale than
] could have gotten for IL in square
bales. believe that the Roundlap
press is the salvation of the farmers of
ovr country. believe that II has
saved in our neigh borhood Of eight or
/ ten miles square S5, 900 In the price Of
cotton and 10000 pounds of lint cot
ton that would have been lost Ia sam-
ples theft and weight, and $1,000 in
warehouse expenses, besides erayage
and railroad expenses.
4 NC huktenu Yin company Wuicu
operates Roundup plant at England
Ark, December l3, 1899, wrote; "We
are very much pleased with the Round,
lap bale press. II is recognized fact
in that community that we have made
the price OF cotton from 4 TO y cents
higher than Il would have been. Only
this last week when we were out OF
the market for about four days seed
cotton dropped from sh TO 2 cents a
pound"