The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-26

dustry here in North Carolina, as we'll "a
all through the South. for that matter.
Except down in the southeast, where
small percentage was used FOR fcrtilizing
purposes. the old-time planters used TO
throw the cottonseed away a. 80 much
sheer waste Out Of this seed there is now
squeezed in the South every year from
50 900 900 10 100, 600 900 gallons OF oil,
worth from $50, 600, 900 to t25 900 600
But this not all. There il something
like $4,000 900 more in the huls, which
Gel, for 81 ton; In the meal, which sells for
SEQ a ton. and in short lint attaching 10 the
seed, which sells for two cents a pound.
So that what the Southern planter of the
past used to throw away the Southern
planter Of to-day converts into from
s35 900 600 to $40, Coz, 600 every year
USES OF COTTON OIL.
This oil is distributed pretty much all
over the world In one form or another.
About 500 900 barrels OF it go to Chicago
every year to make lard, another 1000
barrels go to the same city to make sea :
400 600 barrels o! it go to the Mediteiri-
n AN and France TO come back here ard
spread all over the world Us fine olive oil.
for 10 per cent Of real olive oil will give II
just enough nutty flavor TO take away
at least little OF the taste that tells OF lis
origin down here in Dixie.
Then 200, GOV barrels Of it go TO Hollnd
every year to make that pure Holland
butter Of which the Dutch are 70 justly
| proud. The coast Of Maine fish dealers
| take 10000 barrels Of it year, for II is
fact well.known to all epicures that the
imported sardine Is only al its best when
| it /, prepared in pure olive oil-and that,
| by the way, is one Of the reasons there are
| such large expectations Of the cottonseed
product to France every year.
All this, however, only touches Charlotte
| In a general way, for at present there are
| only two cottonseed oil mills here, with a
| capita of about $500, 900 aud using between
| them 800 tons of seed day. ton of cot
tonseed will turn out about forty gallons
of oil, so that Charlotte's output of the oil
| is about 1900 gallons daily.
oITER INDUSTRIES.
But there are other branches of manu-
| facture which grow Up around big cotton
mill centre like Charlotte. For instance,
| there are five factories here that are en-
gagged exclusively IN the manufacture of
| trousers TROUSERS Of all kinds, mostly OF
| the cheaper grades, but some VI very
| good quality.
At the time Of the Spanish war the oues-
| ton arose rs TO the ability OF the country
! to turn out khaki uniforms and the state
, m-nt WAS made at the time that Charlotte
alone could make enough trousers in thirty
days to supply the entire United states
Army
The oil mills employ $50 hands. the cotton
mills proper. 1900 the trousers factories,
500. and then come the four machine
shops and foundries with another group Of
500 hands. All told the Sc four industries
alone furnish employment to about 1850
| people.
The foundries and machine shops are all
| outgrowths chiefly Of the cotton industry,
| for they make chiefly machines for ginning
| and preparing cotton for the market, al
though not little gold mining machinery
is turned out by them every year,
| III addition to the above named plants
there are two concerns engaged in the
manufacture Of card clothing for the cotton
carding machinery and two more that are
engaged in making reed looms.
Then there are large sulphuric acid and
fertilizer works here that are doing profia-
Die and rapidly growing business. besides
| concern Of some magnitude that il en-
| gagged in tho manufacture Of leather betting
| And all this, Of course. is saying nothing
OF tho minor manufacturing indust ries
| which within the past few years have
grown up here at very rapid pace.
THE PIEDMONT WATER POWER.
In speaking Of tho seventeen cotton mills
that ar" In operation here In Charlotte IL