The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
THE CITY's OIL MILLS.
In Montgomery 60,OOO Tons of Seed
 Are Consumed.


 It Is but natural to suppose that Montgomery..swith its situation as the heart of the agricultural section of the State, should devote a large share of its manufacturing resources to. the making of products that assist in the development of the agricultural inter- est on the one hand, and on the other to the manufacture of goods whose raw material is garnered from the farms and fields of the State.
 The wealth and prosperity of it's cot ton mills in a measure Illustrates this. But as important as are the cotton milling interests of the city they do not approach in magnitude the nanu- facture of fertilizer and acid phos- phates for the making of the cotton crop of the State and the manufacture of cotton seed meal, cotton send oil and other commodities from the cot ton that is grown on the farms of mid dle Alabama.
 An idea of Montgomery's vast inter est in this field is shown by the simple statement that during this year in the city of Montgomery. 100000 tons of commercial fertilizers will be made and that 80,0o0 tons of cotton seed will be ground up in great presses to get the various products that are sold III thlS HI OpV'
 The figures are the estimates of President A. St. Clair Tennille. of the Peoples Cotton oil Company. Dr. Tennille in discussing the manufactur- ing interests which are closely allied with the production of cotton said:
 Needs of the Future.
 "The value of these classes of manu- featuring interests in Montgomery is hardly appreciated by the people of the city. When I tell you that one hundred thousand tons of fertilizer will be manufactured this year in Montgomery and that 60.0oo tons of cotton seed will be ground up in the cotton oil mills of this city the state ment seems exaggerated. but 1t is not Now if Montgomery could secure just and fair freight rates for the hauling of cotton seed in the storing centers and the sending of the products out fair and just rates for hauling the ma terial from which fertilizer Is made and for. distributing it throughout the agri- cultural districts of the State the city would become a great manufacturing center, second to none in this line of industry"
 The Peoples Cotton Oil Company of which Dr. Tennille Is President. has only recently completed the erection of u new COtIOn HILL dl u COSI O1 StV,Vuu The old mill of the company represents an investment of s60.O00. In the two mills seventy-fve men are employed The mills are kept open night and day double shift of men being employed
 In addition to this the company has a number of gins which 1t controls and operates for the advantage such a sys- tenn gives in securing first call on the output of the gins.
 "The increase of the cotton oil mill ing industry in Alabama" said Dr. Tennille. has been rapid. It has been nothing short of remarkable. In the past five years in the State of Alabama I should say that the cotton oil mills have trebled. The development of this particular line of industry in Mont gomery has been very rapid"
 "The output of cotton oil mill is made up of cotton seed meal. cotton seed oil. hulls and linters. The meal Is used both as Q fertilizer and food for live stock. In muscle producing qualities there is no commodity equal to cotton seed meal for live stock. II contains large quantities of protein, the highest form of muscle producing food. The hulls arc also used as food for stock. The linters are used as fill CTS in the manufacture of heavy duck 'HS' NSN'CA SSNs'Ho ~N EANN ucts.
 Cotton seed oil Is sold largely as an edible oil The oil we make here in Montgomery is sold in England, France. Germany, Spain and all the other Latin countries. Probably a large part of it is shipped back as fine olive oil. Cotton oil is largely used in the manufacturing of very satisfactory substitutes for lard"
 Controlling the Prices.
 The impression that the price of oil Is controlled by the price of cotton is an erroneous ono. The price of oil is controlled by the price of lard, as strange as that may seem. The price of the linters is. however controlled by the price of cotton. When cotton Is up. linters are up and when cotton Is down, linters are down."
 An important branch of the busi- ness is the purchase of the cotton seed. the securing of the material for opera ton of the mill. We keep numerous agents at work in this department. For the storing of the cotton seed as 1t is bought we have to erect seed houses along the railroads. The com panies will not store the seed as they are delivered. In these seed houses the seed is stored as it is brought in from the adjacent territory until it can be shipped to Montgomery.
 Last year was not an especially prontabIe one to the mill men. COndi-