The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-04-28
MONEY MADE ON ROUND BALES
Patrons Of Roundup Gin Plants Tell q
Their Big Profits

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Orlty OF The American Cotton Co. :,
. Roundlap bale. Not only were farm
ers benefited who had their cottof
put in ROundlap bales, but the pa,
irons OF old-style gins profited by The
presence OF Roundlap competition.
Farmers all over the cotton States
nave written letters to the owners al
houndlap plants telling of the profit
tnat has come to them from having
their cotton put up in Roundlap bales
MI. w. r. Hartley, ST., who patron
lied the Greenville, Ala, plant. wrote
Feb. 3, 1900: 1.-The most Important
point In the ROundlap bales favor to
the farmer is the advance i'm price
above that OF the square bale. Ithas
averaged the entire past season S.. 90
per bale more than the square hale.
More than $4,000 has been placed in
circulation by the advanced price
caused by this one press
Mr.. +. N. Rogers also wrote from
Greenville, Ala: ~ have receivsd from
= to cent per pound more than the
market price here for square bales
The Ronndlap bale is a Godsend to
the farmers, and has saved them
thousands of dollars in a few month. 2
Mr.. j. ID. Reilly, Centreville. Miss.
wrote Dec. A, 1889: Another ad,
vantage to the farmers Is that Round-
zap cotton brings such a good price
that the buyers of square cotton have
been forced to put their prices nm
mus all the farmers are benefited In
d town where there Is a Roundlan
press"
Mr.. +, b. Simonton, Temple. Tex
Nov. IL, 1893: II have received from
$I.50 to $50 per bale more for mycot
ton than If had ginned and sold In
the square bale. Besides know that !
The prices The American Cotton Com
pany has paid for seed cotton have
been the cause of those buying the
square bale paying from 10 To 501
points more for it. -
Mr.. j. l.. Wood, of Venus. Tex. Dec
z. 1899, wrote: II sold to The Ameri-
can Cotton Company and IFS East
" AGO plant the first bale of cotton
that was ever ginned by the Round-
lap 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. / have
sold my cotton to your Venus plant
can safely say that have made 81
per bale more 10y selling to Won In the
seed than would have made If had
sinned it into square bales. besides
saving a great deal of annoyance
With the street buyers. In view If
,tie iact that the custom ginners and
nose opposed to the RonndIap sys-
EN- say That you do not let thefarm-
4 nave cotton seed / will sag that |
lave Always gotten seed when asked
Ur it,"
Mr.. p. b. Hall. a merchant end
, , Oh Waynesboro, Ga. wrote
sov. III, 1893, to Messrs. Wilkins &
ones. owners OF the Roundlap plant
i that place: y had one lot of 20
'ales turned out by you, and without
aying anything to anygody | put
ne samples on the market. Ali of
ne buyers In town bid upon same.
mixing IT square bale cotton. One
! the buyers bid 5x cents, another
,o'h cents, and another 5.95 cents.
ne latter remarking at the time that
was really bidding full sixteenth r
lore than the lot of cotton was
,orth. Without knowing what bids
mad received-in fact / did not tell
GU that anybody had bid upon i'll i
GU offered and paid me $50 for fhe
u OF cotton, which was a clear dif-
renee OF 90 points in favor of the
oundlap bale. l believe that the
oundfap bale is the bale OF the flu
ire. as 1t effects a large saving Of
aste, and enables the planter to get
higher price for his cotton"
Mr.. Abram Williams, Nov. 10. 1889
rote Messrs. Wilkins & Jones: "To-
~ had two Roundlap bales of cot
N packed on your Roundiap bale
'ess, for which you paid me 7%cents
r pound, when the same grade of
'tton in the square bale here to-day
only bringing Z to 7A cents per 4
Mr.. J. $. Collins. Pike Road. Ala
ov. IL, 1893, wrote: Il have gotten
my cotton $3.50 per bale more
an l could have gotten for it i'm 4,
uare bales. / believe that the 4
,nndlap press Is the salvation of the
,,mers OF our county. believe that r
mas saved In our neighbOrhood of
mt or ten miles square $1,000 in the
zee OF cotton, and 10000 pounds of
{ cotton that would have been lost
samples, theft and weight, and ST. i,
In warehouse charges, besides
ayage and railroad expenses"
fhe England Gin Company, which
crates Roundlap plant at England.
X, Dec. Ii, 1899, wrote: I'VE are
~ much pleased with the Roundlap II,
re press. 1t is a recogniznd fact in II
IS community that we have made /;
price OF cotton from y to z cents :
,her than 1T would have been. Only h
= last week when we were out Of II
market about four days seed cot
dropped from ~ cents to , cents
pound" u,