The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-01-10
Bambers's Oil Mill.

We arc glad to be able to give our
readers pen picture of Bambcrgs latest
manufacturing. enterprise this week. the
cotton oil mill, anal we are -ratiticd to
think that the ontcrpr 3. Which IN I
large measure is due To our suggestion
and exploitation. contains the true
clements of success: ample capital, eX-
ccllent business management. careful
supervision, and skilled workmcn. 1t has
$25 900 capital with the following officers:
G.. W. GarriS, president; G. Frank Bam-
bcrg, vice president; ". VI. Brabham;
general manager and treasurer: G. Moyc
Dickinson, book keeper and secretary:
al home men of sound business principles
and unimpeachable integrity. Mr.. S.
Blackwelder, of Charlotte, n. c.. an oil
mill specialist, is superintendent. and Mr..
r. :. Cauthen, Of Bambcrg, member of
the |. A. of NJ. assistant superintendent.
Work was begun on the buildings last
July. and the mill started running night
and day on January 1st. Mr.. Blackwell
der has charge of the day shift, and Mr.
Cauthen has the might shift. The
plans and specifications were furnished
bv the well-known firm of D. 4. TOmp-
kins & Co., of Charlotte, N. c., and every
thing, both buildings and equipment, is
strictly up-to-date. Power is furnished
by a 100 Ii. p. SiouXCorliSs engine, from
two Erie City return tubular boilers,
which also furnish steam for cooking, and
the dynamo engine, a 5X6 Racine auto
matte cutoff center crank engine, driving
an S0-light Edison dynamo. The seed are
fed by hand into gigantic sand and boil
screen, which removes the seed and bollS,
and then through spiral conveyors to
three Carver linters, of 10G saws each,
where the surplus lint is removed; then
to the huller, built by the Livermore
Foundry and Machine Co., and hulled.
| They are next carried to separator,
similar to the sand screen, where the hulls
and meats are separated, the hulls going
to the hull house and the meats going to
the crusher.
The meats, after being crushed, are
cooked and the oil pressed out under $50
tons hydraulic pressure, in massive pres
ses, built by the Stillwell- -Bierce & Smith
| Vaile Co. The oil runs into receiving
tank, to allow the sediment to be gathered
and repressed before the oil is pumped
into the storage tanks, which have Ca
| pdOlly VI dUOut fo,ooO SoaltoAs.
The cakes are allowed to cool and
harden, after which they are broken and
ground into meal. So perfect is the sys-
TEN of conveying the seed in the various
stages of manufacture that seed can be
put into the sand screen and in As minutes
the lint is in the lint house, the hulls
are in the hull house, the oil in the re-
ceiving tank, and the cakes are in the
meal room.
The building is equipped with Grinnell
automatic sprinklers, getting water from
a 5000 gallons tank on 40 foot steel
Caldwell tower The tank on the tower
is supplied from the boiler feed water
reservoir, made of concrete, and having a
capacity of about II, 900 gallons.
The company gives employment to
about twenty hands, at good wages, most
of which will be spent here.
If good wishes will insure success, then
this laudable enterprise is already sue
| cessful, though there is no reasonable
grounds for doubts of its succeeding.
May it prosper.