The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-04-18
LOSING THREE-QUARTERS OF 4
MILLION YEARLY.


MILLION YEARLY.
According to the last census report,
North Carolina produces over 500, 900
bales Of cotton. Ii this cotton were
ginned ADD cleaned in the best manner
known to the art. that is, on one of our
complete outfits, no man would deny
that it would bring oDe-forth OF cent
Der pound more. This means 81 .25 per
bale, which is 1925 900. Yes, but these
new gin outfits cost more. some may
say. SO they do. but the ginners do not
charge the farmer more. They can gin
his cotton at the same price now charged
and make money, because they do it with
less labor 1t is a labOr-saviDg device
as well as means OF improving the
grade.
IMPROVEMENTS NOT IN THE GIN
ITSELF.
Ali our improvements relate to hand
ling and cleaning the cotton before and
after ginning. Nochange has been made
in the gin itseli-a machine with saws
and ribs and brush to take the lint
cotton Off the saws. A dozen different
factories make gins, and they are all
more or less alike. Originally there was
some difference, but the patents have all
expired, and the desirable features which
one or two had, have become common
property. The main question to be con-
sidered about the gin is to be assured
that it is we'll made, good material and
workmanship.
THE BEST AND BIGGEST SHOPS.
We have the best equipped genera!
machine shops in the Southern States
South of Richmond. There may be one
possibly two. a little larger, but none
better supplied with the latest and best
tools for the kind of work we do. You
have no doubt heard of Charlotte as a
great manufacturing centre. Well. with
out intending it as in any way a boast
but merely to show that we have the
capacity and skill to do good work, we
make the assertion that we have the
largest weekly pay roll of any mill or
factory of any kind in Charlotte Or
Mecklenburg county, and pay the highest
wages. Not only this, but our freight
business - incoming and outgoing
amounts to more than any factory with
| in the city limits with the single eXcep-
ton of the oil mills, the nature OF whose
business is altogether different
ELEVATOR AND CLEANER AND OLD
GINS.
We make the machinery that goes into
| our complete outfits all in Charlotte
The engine (pain side valve or automa-
tlc), the elevator, the pulleys and shaft
ing and hangers, and the press, ofcourse.
We can put the elevator and improved
| feeders on old gins, and if not too far
gone they will produce a far better sam
| pie than when they We're new. We can
| tit our elevators to any make of gins, but
| we send our systems out with the Eagle
gin. We can fit them out with Hall gins
| if desired.
| WHAT THE WONDERFUL MURRAY
FEEDER DOES.
| All cotton gins must have feeders
| Cotton ought to be cleaned before it
enters the gins. If a ginner could find a
| feeder, which, while feeding the cotton to
J the gins, also cleans it better than ny
single device ever invented, wouldn't it
| be a good thing? Well, We have the
thing. In the first place, there isn't any
better feeder. In the second place there
| ism t any better cleaner In the third
| place there ISM any more machinery to
! it than in an old type feeder. In the
| fourth place, it costs very little more. 1t
is the Murray Cleaning Feeder. 1t is the
invention OF the same Murray who revo-
lutionized the handling of cotton by the
| invention of the Murray Pneumatic EIe
vator and Distributor The feeder fits
| right in with this, and gives perfect
system. But the Murray Cleaning
Feeders can be used without the elevator
over any gin. 1t is driven with a belt
like any other feeder, either from the gin
shaft or the line shaft.
IT'S MONEY IN YOUR POCKET.
The cleanest cotton can be made
| cleaner, Inferior grades, on which the
| farmer loses from one to three cents per
| pound, can be raised several grades
| Our system takes out the dust which
| discOlOrs. and the leaf trash which dis
| credits our cotton in the markets OF the
| world. Give US chance
| THE"H ONE INDUSTRY"lDE DON'T
GO WITH Us.
Other things being equal, buy your
machinery near home. That's good doc.
trlne and good sense. We have been in
| the business about twenty-five years
right here in North Carolina, and We
have never yet asked man to buy from
us because we were ''hOme Industry
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