The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-08
AT COST OF $4,000
NEW SOUTHERN STATES PHos-
PHATE WORKS COMPLETED.
WILL EMPLOY 200 HANDS
OUTPUT WILL BE 10000 TONS OF
FERTILIZER PER ANNUM.

hC AAht OfNhGU DS the
states Phosphate and Fertilizer
Co., and Located Near BrutOn Hin
Between Tybee Road and Savan-
nah River-Was Built and Equip
ped by the N. p. Pratt Laboratory
of Atlanta-Its Chief Officers Au-
gusta Capitalists-Mr. F. d. Screven
of Savannah Observation-Disclosures
ers to Inspect 1t To-day.
The plant of the Southern States
Phosphate and Fertilizer Co. located
Road and the Savannah River was
completed yesterday and turned over
to the superintendent of the company,
Mr.. Frank B. Screven.
This factory, which was designed and
erected complete in every department
by the N. P. Pratt Laboratory of At
lanta, cost $175,0O0, has capacity OF
10000 tons of finished fertilizer per
annum, and in size, capacity, complete
ness and quality of it's various depart
ments, is one of the finest plants of
its kind in the country.
Work on it was begun about seven
months ago. The building or construz
tive parts were finished some time ago
and have already been inspected by
the officers of the company and ac-
cepted by them. The other depart
ments of the works also were finished
for some time but, as is the case with
all such plants erected by the N. P
Pratt Laboratory a test run of thirty
Gays was made to show the com.
pleteness of the equipment and, fur
ther, to demonstrate that the output
VIII come up to specifications.
This test run. which proved thor
oughly satisfactory. was concluded
yesterday. The plant was then turned
over to Mr. Screven. Tomorrow the
ofhcers of the company will reach Sa-
Vannah and will make a final inspec-
ton of the plant. These officers are:
President-F. B. Pope of Augusta.
Vice President-Porter Fleming of
Augusta
Secretary and Treasurer-JlM Rerrv
of Augusta
The superintendent is Mr.. F. B.
Screven of this city
The plant has a number of auxiliary
| departments not directly connected
with the manufacture of fertilizer, but
OF the greatest advantage in handling
both the raw material and the finished
product of the factory One of the
chief of these departments is the cleo
trlc plant, which not only furnishes
lighting power to the factory, but also
power to operate an elevated railroad
connecting the factory with the Plant
system wharves. Raw material from
the wharf will be transported over this
road and the finished product ready
for shipment will form the return
cargo.
How great an acquisition to Savan-
nah's manufactures this plant is is
shown not only in the amount of
money invested in it, but by the fur
Their fact that it will be operated day
and night the whole year round and
employ, approximately, 200 hands dur
ing the busy season, beginning about
october and lasting until spring, and
sixty people during the slack season,
the late spring and early summer.
The difference in the output in sum-
mer and winter is brought about by
the condition of the market Only
during the planting season will there
be demand for fertilizer, and so the
completed product will be made then,
but some of the constituents of the
fertilizer, sulphuric acid and acid phos-
plate, will be made all during the
year.
The general character of the plant
differs much from the ordinary ferti-
lizer factory. The average plant of
this kind is merely collection of rough
buildings conceded to be satisfactory if
they but serve as a protection for the
machinery and equipment, but the new
plant has been built in accordance with
the more progressive views and is
model OF neatness, of completeness in
detail, and of all that tends to econo-
my of operation, and the saving of
labor.
The plant is brilliantly lighted at
night and has attracted much atten-
ton both from the river and from the
Tybee road. Rather a peculiar fact
about it is that it is built on part
of the original Screven estate. a por-
ton that formerly was used as a rice
plantation. MIR. Screven, the superin-
tendent, has been engaged more or less
directly in the manufacture of ferti-
liZer for fifteen or twenty years. and
his long experience coupled with his
recognized ability, is a guarantee that
the plant will be economically and
therefore profitably operated.
Two of the features of the plant that
have attracted much attention and ia
vorable comment is the system for pro
lection against fire, which consist of
two 5O0-gallon a minute pumps and
the fact that every machine or appli-
ance is in duplicate which insures the
continued operation of the plant de-
spite accidents.