The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-21
A BIG INDUSTRY.
THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COM
PANY's PLANT HERE.
OIL, LARD AND SOAP.


tutc II for Butter-Soap shipped by
the Train Load-wesson Process
Company Operated by This Conn
pany in Savannah.
The largest cot .onseed oil manufactur-
err in this country is the Southern Cotton
Oil Company.
1t operates moro than twenty plants.
The largest of which is in Savannah.
This is the parent plant, and is managed
along with the At anita p.ant, the next
in size, by Mr.. L. w. Haskell of this city.
Mr.. George F. Tennile holds the resson-
sible position of chemist for the company.
More than 500 peop.e find emp oyment
at the Southern Cotton OIL Company.
The product is shipped from one end of
the world to the other.
The Dutch of Hol AID consume annually
hundreds of barrels of the solid from the
winter oil department, as butter. Eu-
rope Is consumi. g thousands upon thou
sands of gallons of the oil daily.
The lard compound is shipped by the
carload eveIyN here. The new cooking
fat has taken its place in the bakeries of
the United States to the exclu ion of al
most all other products. The soaps made
by the company have become a slap
article of merchandise and are shipped
from Savannah by the trainioad.
Few Savannahians realize the vastness
of this enterprise. And it is yet in its
infancy. But few years ego the man
ufacture of lard compound was unknown
here. 1t was a Western p oduct. 1t
was a monopoly and held tigh ly for the
most part by the packing houses. And
prior to the existence of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company. was shipped extern
sively throughout the South and, indeed,
over the entire country.
When the cottonseed oil product was
thrown on the market, it naturally Gre
ated furry. The Old concerns recog-
nized in the STRIPPING young giant, and
their days were numbered
The superiority of the cottonseed pro-
duct stamped itself upon the market at
once and it's manifest value sent it fly
ing in the lead, uutil to-day the old con-
Germs find themselves largely out of bus
mess so far as lard con- pouLd goes.
The soap industry was once confined
to the West and East. The material
out of which it was made was handler
to the Western people than it was to the
Southern pc pie. Consequently Southern
people bathed and scrubbed and secured
with Western soap.
To-day the bulk of tho soap used in
the South is Southern soap, made by
Southern manufacturers out of Southern
material The same is true of salad oils.
cooking butter and compound. The fact
that 10 per cent of the cottonseed oil
product is equivalent to 100 per cent. OF
the lard product and is a thousa' and
one times more useful and hea thful is
now recognized both here and abroad.
The shipping capacity of the uthern
Cottonseed Oil Company's p ant here is
a thousand barrels of oil daily.
Grasp it-1,000 barrels!
This is somewhere about 50 600 gallons.
A carload of the finest grade of oil useo
as salad oil is shipped daily.
This oil finds its way into the jobbins
houses throughout the North, and East,
and South, and thence to the consumers.
While the other oil is exported CHI ety.
The capacity for manu- turing Snow
Drift lard compound is 1000 tierces a
week. THIS is put up in neat tins of 3,
>, 10 and 20 pounds and in tubs of so and
50 pounds The manufacture of Snow
Drift was begun la fail. The weekly
shipment of III vegetable product from
Savannah is a thousand tierces. Palma
tina, the new cooking fat, bears a dose
resemblance to butter, is very palatable
and, indeed, is used for butter by some.
This is the product which has become
SO exceedingly p"pu ar where "a very high
grade of compound is desired, as in maxi
ing cake. Palmatina is a favor.te with
bakers
The Wesson Process Company is oper-
ated by the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany. Only the finest grade of salad oil
and cooking oil is turned out from this
department.
This department is also provided with
all the latest appliances for getting out
the product, as machinery for bottling,
for labelling. and for sealing the vessels
into which the oil is put. DR.. Wesson
is chemist for this department. The Wes-
son plant has a capacity of Is 600 cans per
day This is shipped in barrels as well.
The cans in which this oil is put up are
beautifully ename'ed and Autographed.
An advantage which this oil has over
ordinary cooking material and one which
has made it popular and wi eventually
retire other material is THAT it is odor-
less. 1t makes no fume. no smoke And
what is better, it does not pa4take of the
flavor of meats or vegetables cooked in
it. For instance, it is claimed, that after
frying fish in the oil or even an onion, 1t
may be strained and used in a cake.
A spoonful of butter to cupful of this
oil makes superior cooking butter.
The soap plant is in bu Id ng 400 feet
long. The capacity of manufacture Is
1000 boxes daily. The Magnolia soap,
which has grown so popular among the
launderers and ho"sekeop@~s. il ma &c
eye. The Magnolia is known as the
Soap that CT an :" b. g lie lar soap 5
also made here-''The biggest bar yet"
Forest City soap-"the soap of the South"
is made here as well as the Baseball
SOAP and penny bar. a washi- g pow
der.is turned out of this department. Ten
statesmen are sent out from Savannah to
sell the soap and lard compound. Mr..
Julian B. johnson has charge Of this de-
partment He has offered three prizes
for the largest number Of wrappers for
the Ma gnolie soap They are to be
awarded April /. These prize arc now
on exhibition in Hunter & VanKeuren's
show windows on Bull street.
The first prize is a lady's gold watch.
This will be given TO the person present.
ing the largest number of Magnolia soap