The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-18

Great Quantities Used.
A fire destroyed the refinery during
the same year, in June, but it was re-
built in October, and at that time ma
chinery was put in for the manufac-
tUre of the lard compound. The ca
pacity of the lard mandatory, which
was started in a rather experimental
way, was then about $4,000 pounds
day. The present capacity of the plant
is 100000 pounds per day. An idea of
! the output of the plant can be best
gathered by the sales of lard. For n
single month this year the sales were
100000 pounds. This was from the Sa-
Vannah plant, where many articles
other than lard are manufactured. The
finest grade of lard is made. When the
lard is ground forth from the freezer
1t is so pure and white that it
resembles driven snow, and therein
lies the naming of the brand, Snow
Drift" So clean and pure and taste
less is the lard as it comes forth in
its frozen state, that were a little flaw
oring added and a bit of sugar, it
would make an acceptable ice-cream.
Ineed, NELSON'S cooking oil is often
used in making the best of ice cream.
Oils and Soaps.
The standard grades of oil are ship
ped abroad in large quantities, and the
prime winter yellow oil, which is
pressed in 3. room at low temperature,
is universally used in making salad
dressing. In France it is mixed with
olive and other vegetable oil and from
it the finest grades of salad oils are
made.
The finer grades of the oil, made by
the Wesson process, differ from the
standard grade as refined sugar does
from brown sugar. These are known as
Wesson's Cooking, and Salad Oils The
cooking oil is colbrless, tasteless and
odorless. The use of the articles in
the kitchen is an immense saving to
the housekeeper. The salad oil has the
flavor and properties of the most i'm
proved salad oils, and sells at less than
half the price.
Two different kinds of washing soaps
are made by the company Magnolia,
one of the principal brands, has given
universal satisfaction, and meets com
petition with great success. Second
in sale only to Magnolia brand is For
| est City soap powder.
One Thousand Employees.
Home industry should be patronized.
The Southern Cotton Oil Company
gives employment in Chatham county
alone to nearly a thousand wage earn
ers. Among its employees are found
chemists, foremen, carpenters, boiler
makers, f1remen. laborers, clerical
workers and men of many more trades
and occupations. The policy of the
company is to reach the people by
pleasing them, and to put the cleanest
natural vegetable compound in the
home at figure lower than the animal
product, proving incidentally the su-
periority of the home product over all
others
Extensive additions are contemplate
ed. The company has bought a large
tract of land abutting the present
plant, and upon this is being con-
structed a monster warehouse. The
lard trade especially has assumed such
significant proportions that it will also
be necessary in the near future to in
crease the capacity of that part of the
companys works. The lard sales alone
have grown 1000 per cent. in few
months
Besides the plant here, there is an
| other large plant, in New Orleans. and
throughout the Southern States there
are many small manufactures
small, when compared to the plant at
| savannah, but large in comparison to
other industries in their territory.