The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-25
COT. JNO. F. HOBBS
Is on a Visit to Newberry With His Fam lily
Gives Sn Iuteresting Interview to
The Herald and News.

panied by his wife and daughter. Col.
Hobbs is a graduate of Newberry college
and always takes dep interest in his
alma mater. Some of the most valuable
relics in the museum at the college were
contributed by him which he gathered in
his tours in foreign lands. For two years
he was the classmate of the editor of this
paper, though he graduated in a class
ahead of US. Col. Hobbs is now editor
and part owner of the National Pro-
visioner, leading trade journal of New
York, and his home is in that city. He
is doing we'll and leaves today for Dallas
where he goes as delegate to the Cotton
Seed Crusher Convention With all Of his
success in the world be has never lost his
interest in or his love for the people of his
native state where he has many friends
who are always glad to see him If his
plan to develop the power on Broad river
succeeds it will mean great deal for this
section and for the state
Col. Hobbs says that he is Gin the
South on Capitalization of power and
industrial trip, trying to get together
material or facts which will enable him
to perfect arrangements for grand i'll
dustrial scheme for development of the
various communities or small sections of
the South where such group of enter
prises can be operated together economi-
cally and to advantage. Certain Northern
people, capitalists and manufacturers OF
machinery and installation plants, are
taking quite all interest in the details ct
this Southern industrial development
scheme. For instance, there is under
offer to me in case the objections to the
present working model are overcome, a
novel suspended power generator which
will make possible the utilization OF the
water power Of Broad river, near the
Hobbs plantation, without the necessity OF
the conventional canal. Power could be
transmitted from there to all points within
radius of IS or 80 mites-electric power,
of course. The purpose is to build and
operate a group of small enterprises in or
adjacent to certain prosperous commun1-
ties, the farmers being asked to support
these by cooperation more than with their
money The following may be taken as a
sample of the nest of small enterprises
which can be operated at one point for the
benefit of the surrounding people:
First, a small cotton oil mill Second
a compound lard, butter and oleomarge-
rine factory. Third, a small cold-storage
or warehouse for gathering and storing
farm produce, such as eggs, poultry,
vegestables and fruits, gathering them at
the time when the farmer has surplus
in spring, summer and fall, distribution
to be made in Northern markets, summer
resort hotels and in winter in the general
markets. Fourth, a beef cattle feeding
station, and hog feeding station. Fifth,
fertilizer factory. Sixth, an ice factory
for purposes of refrigeration.
All of these enterprises work IN
through each other. For instance, COM
pound lard factory and the dairy utilize a
per cent. of the cotton oil; the beef feed
ing station takes off a per cent of the
cotton seed meal and cake, while the fer
tilizer factory consumes the balance. The
hog feeding station also takes off per
cent of the meal and the buttermilk or
skim milk of the dairy The oleomarga-
rina factory takes a per cent. of the cot
ton oil, per cent. of the oleo oil beef
station, and a per cent. of the hog lard in
the neutral oil A soap factory may be
added to utilize the residue or foots of
The cotton seed oil and certain grades of
tallow of the beef station Each of these
plants will be small, limited to a small
area and driven by the common power
generated in Broad river
MACHINERY people of the North are
willing to establish these punches of in
dustries to gather, conserve and enhance
the waste prodcuts ofthe farm. if can
show them that there is sufficient surplus
of supplies for them, and that these in
dus,ries will work proftably one into the
hand of the other.
81 am now gathering the Information
for this purpose and endeavoring to es-
tablish a complete inter-linking chain of
this gr up of farm developing industries
for certain sections of South Carolina
For instance, a farmer has beef animal,
it will not'be profitable for him to fatten
one animal andidraw attractive buyers for
it at a profitable figure. He now sells
that animal at about three cents, live
weight, at most If he had central sta
ton to which he could drive that animal
it could be sold with the herd or similar
ly collected animals, at anywhere from
Ave to six cents per pound, standing
weight. Farmers will take eight to ten
cents per dozen for their fresh eggs at
their farms in the summer while northern
summer resort hotels are paying as much
as thirty cents per dozen for the same
(, some northern farm produce dealer
makes the difference, the South Carolina
merchant only getting tie brokerage IN