The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-12
Great Growth Of the Business In the Last
twenty Years
THERE ANE NOW FIVE HUNDRED MILLS
An Investment of $50, 100000 with
the business Yet In Infancy.
Exports Large.

general public as that of cotton see1'
Twenty years ago Gotten seed was thrown
away. Today, although the business is
but in its infancy. there are more than
500 mills In the South that represent
an investment OF probably $4,000, 600,
while the value OF the products of these
mills is in excess of $50, 900, OG0 per year.
In olden times cotton planters locked
upon the surplus seed as one Of the bar
dens they could not escape They burned
tho stuff, used 1t to fill low spots in the
field, paid to have it hauled away, and
We're glad to get rid OF It, There is ira
dtion that the legislature Of Texas passed
a law making it penal offense to dump
cotton seed in streams. However that
may be the law is now a dead letter, for
farmers are not addicted to the habit
these days.
Today the cotton oil mills of Texas are
paying from S12 to S14 per ton for cotton
seed. That would mean Sc to 81 per bale
of cotton if all the seed were sold, To
make one bale of 800 pounds of cotton
the pickers gather 1900 to 1900 pounds
of lint and seed, the seed weighing twice
as much as the lint which adheres to it,
But the planters do not sell all their seed.
A small portion is retained for planting
some is kept for stock feeding, a con-
siderable quantity is wasted. The author
tiles say that not ne-half of the seed
is sent to the mills to be crushed
A census of the cotton oil mills in
America would probably show between
800 and 800 IN operation and a large num-
Der in course of erection. From one Of
the NEST complete lists obta.nable the
the division of mills in operation is given
as follows: Texas, 1870; Oklahoma Z;
Indian Territory 8; Arkansas, %; Ala
Dama. 4O Georgia, 6S; Louisiana, 80 !,
Mississippi, 60; North Carolina, 80; South
Carolina, 66; Tennessee, %; Florida, g..
and Virginia, l. This makes a total of
504
The American Cotton Oil company con-
trolls the largest number Of mills in the
south. 1t operates in the separate States
under distinct Names In Texas 1t f.
cthcially known as the National Cotton
Oh company; in Louisiana 1t is the Union
Oll company; in Mississippi it is the
mississippi Cotton Oil company; in Ar
kansas the Arkansas Cotton OIL company,
and in South Carolina and North Caro-
INA 1t takes the name of the State to
start It's official style. In Texas the Amer
lean Cotton Oil company operates six
mills, one at Houston, one at Seguin,
one at Denlson, one at Texarkapa one
at Waco and one at Hearne.
Next to the Ampricen Carton OiI ,,,,,
pany in point of operation comes the
southern Cotton Oil company. The head
quarters of this corporation is at Phla-
pelphla. Its system seems to be to d.
Vlue us mills in sets Of two and TO have
each set under one management. The
houston and New Orleans mills are nm
der one management; so are the mills OF
savannah and Atlanta; so are the mills
OF Little Rock and Newport. Ark. This
company, in addition to the plants named
owns mills at Memphis, Montgomery and
various other points In the cotton belt.
me greatest cotton oil mill in the world
is al sherman, Texas. 1t is the pronerty
81 the Sherman Oil and Cotton company.
1T Is not only the largest but the Oldest.
ana lts product is the standard of eX-
eellence' the sherman brand command
ing premium wherever cotton seed nro-
"a
TO crush 45O tons of seed per day.
The ramifcations of the cotton CO.,
business are wonderful AS adjuncts To
the mills Of Texas there are reaneries
Dafrei factories, soap factories. delinters
SINS STOCK pens for the feeding OF cat
ue preparatory to sending the beeves IN
market and variety of other Industries
armour, Swift, Cudahy and all the great
packing house people are largely inter
ested IN cotton seed mills, and use qreat
quantities of the oil in the making NJ
compound lard and the many substitu+ as
ioh putter Their business in cotton seed
Prouucts' however, does not compare with
that OF England and Germany which
countries are the largest CUSTOMERS NJ
tne MUS The exporting OF cotton seed
VI, anu cake Is now only second In i'm
pot,ahce TO cotton Itself at most of the
- ou i ports, and an Immense business
Is oelng developed France and italy arc
purchasers Of cotton seed oils
In former times France had o,,ita ~
INDUSTRY In the making of oils from tho
Crush'ng OF the African and East Indian
s,ound rut, but cotton seed oil haa sun-
ptehleu the ground nut oil. and shinIoaSs
% pdItlally refined oils 20 each sason
llom' GAN eston and New Orleans In Mr.
sei'les 10 be again refined and perfectsd
W the process so well known IN VI
t,s manufacturers. 70 Genoa a CON
SIDERABLE quantity of cotton seed oil poo,
,ach year which comes back n is at
eseu' as pure olive oil. and which 4,
Insult T TO detect from the real thing
eNas makes more out OF cotton seed
, tnan tne ether States. In the south AZ.
Will ,Snac states where the soil has been
roau out ny excessive cultivation the
s neai Is used in large quantities as
Iertillzer In Texas there has heen No
necessity for reinforcing the sol, so NJ
thoIe gotten seed product is nut nnon
..I'sues In regard TO the exports =,
.uetoh seed products are not full Thro,,ni,
,"e, Porl OF Galveston in the seasor 90
60 1888 tthe commercial year 10 Iron,
aop,snloer l to August 81 In the cottan
"otaut tnere were exported 212 500 TONS
OF cotton seed oil cake ana mo-, tois
d ohe season lS9S-1s99 these exnorts - !.
tho 10, IONS, In the season Of 1ss9-1ao1
'ne toal was 1926 tons. 1'V'
sh me cotton crop Of 1s9s-lsOO was very
taIIis mat is the explanation of ~
raI'lns on IN shipments In the sh,n
500 SOL Of cotton seed oil the season ~
do.,, was the largest on reco-s
sssLHe the short crop. One Arm 80 III
,vAers handled in excess of 40 ooo h.
US mostly consigned 10 Rotterd,,,
4. paiFeston there are Ave conaas
tne cotton seed business. Thss -. us
- - nehin, the Gulf Ports Trad. -.
NY - Marshall. r. II. Youns 40 ~
r. tannon Commission ..as," anu tne