The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-05
GOOD FERTILIZER TRADE.
sales for Year Show Largest Tom
mage in GeOrgia's History.

uage in GeOrgia's History.
The ruling prices of cotton during the
.oason lust closed were satisfactory TO
tormers, and the prospects of good
..,de another season induced them to
n,v fertilizers literally so that the en-
ttre quantity manufactured was con-
sumed.
In fact. the trade was so satisfactory
chat there has been new enterprises
started. probably chief among them be-
inc the Blackshear Manufacturing
rompany at Blackshear, Ga, with a
conacity of about $4,000 tons. There
Sas also been formed at Savannah
mutual company for the purpose of
noanufacturing fertilizers. Then
Messrs Pope and Fleming
If Augusta have incorpora-
rcd fertilizer company. The contract
has been let to build the plant at the
plant System terminals, and active
work will begin in a short time. This
nIant will have capacity of 10000 tons.
Several other enterprises have been
talked of, and there is reason for be-
Neving that in the near future other
industries along this line will be incor-
porated.
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
many had the misfortune to lose the
acid chambers at one of their Savan-
nah factories, and have now under con-
struction an acid chamber whose ca
pacity will be much greater than the
one destroyed. This company will here
after manufacture in Savannah only at
nIant No. l, or the old Conner. Hull &
Co factory, above town. The plant
L, Ia i,afa Va ina
many from the Commercial Guano
Company has fallen into the hands of
the Southern Cotton Oil Company I'M
der a 99-year lease, and it is doubtful
if any fertilizers will be manufactured
there at all during the new season. But
the increase in the capacity of the acid
chambers at the Comer-Hull works
will make the product of the two plants
about the same as it formerly was.
That there is to be more competition
in the fertilizer trade is apparent from
the new factors which are entering the
Southern field, or rather, the more
aggressive attention which manufac-
turers heretofore dormant are to give
10 their business. 1t is believed that
the Armour Fertilizer Company will
look after this branch of it's
business more closely during
the new season than it has
during the past. Inc company Is now
building at Atlanta a $4,000 ton fac
tory. and it proposes to utilize there the
blood and tankage from its various
slaughter houses. This movement by
the Armours has caused the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company to buy
cottonseed oil mills throughout the
South with the view of controlling the
output of ammoniates in the shape of
cotton seed meal. These two compa-
MES will be active competitors in the
field during the new season.
The increase of sales during the sea-
son of 1900-1901 over 1S99-1900 is about
66 900 tons, making 473,839 tons as
against 407, $50 the year before. This
is a very large increase, and shows the
greatest tonnage that has yet been sold
in the state of Georgia. The tendency
of prices is upward, and the probabili-
ties are that acid phosphate and am
nominated fertilizers will bring at least
a dollar per ton more during the new
season than they did last. Referring
to conditions, one man said that the
farmers of Georgia are to be congrat-
ulated upon the new fertilizer enter
prises which have been incorporated,
and those that are to be built very
soon. He said it puts the manufactur-
ing of fertilizers in more hands and
leaves the trade open to competition,
which makes it to the best interests
of consumers.