The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
Alcohol, Fertilizer, SnOktIess
Powder, Gun Cotton and Gel
IuIoid Are Some Of Products
MONTGOMERY TRUSTS IN
VANDIVER'S JUDGMENT
Utilization of Cotton Stalks Will Also
Do Much to Stop Spread of
Boil Weevil In the
South. So.

Montgomery, July 21.-tSpecial.)-W F.
vandiver director in Cotton Stalks Pro-
duct company, which is to erect plant
for the manufacture of paper from cotton
stalks. is just back from a trip TO the
east where he perfected many of the
details of the enterprise and arranged to
have a number of samples of the product
in various stages of manufacture shipped
here for exhibition. He is enthusiastic
over the outlook and anticipates, as things
now stand that the mill will be ready for
service by the first day of next year, a
new years present, so to speak, for the
people of the south and the citizens of
Montgomery.
Mr.. Vandiver has given his time and at
tention to this enterprise and sees IN 1t
a great source of revenue for the cotton
section. As in other movements of i'm
portance to the city and state he has
taken this movement in hand with vigor
and determination. He has been leader
for years in the business interests of the
city, one of his latest accomplishments
being that of organizing the Montgomery
Freight butreau, Of which he is presi-
dent. 1t is no fattery to say that in
such matters as this the business COM
immunity has the utmost confidence In his
Judgment.
Many By-Products Possible.
1t is pointed out by Director Vandiver
that the success of the movement to make
paper from cotton stalks, already fully
demonstrated means the bringing in of a
great deal of money to the south, as well
as cheapening the cost of so staple a
product as paper The present supply of
paper is about nine million tons annually
The Cotton Stalks Product company, when
fully established, can make that much
itself, besides turning out a great many
valuable by-products, including denatured
alcohol, fertilizer, smokeless powder, gun
cotton and celluloid And 1t is not at all
unlikely that the mills may make from
the stalk fibre a class of bagging that
will successfully compete with jute, there
by bringing to the people of the cotton
section not only a saving but new source
of revenue.
In an criticize in the New York CONNER
cial, John p Coulter, financial editor
calls attention to a new feature of the
prospects, and that ii will aid in the de-
stroying of the boil weevii. 1t Is argued
that the germ life of the weeyil Is car
ried from year to year in the cotton stalk
and If the stalk Is destroyed 1t will, Of
necessity lose out with it. This alone,
the argument goes on, is a source of value
not to be taken lightly. There has also
been invented a machine for cutting tho
stalks which bales and assemblies them
for shipment. Paper from the lowest to
the highest grade will be made.
Keep Mills Going All Year.
The Montgomery mill will have capac-
ity of 100 tons of cotton stalks day, and
they will be assembled from all the section
about AS there is only a short period of
time when the stalks are in shape to har-
vest they will be collected and stored or
partially prepared 50 that work at the
plant may run along all the year. The va
rious stages of the stalk in the manufae-
ture of the products that come from 1t
will afford an even distribution of the time
through the year. An acre of ground that
makes bale OF cotton will produce
ton of stalks. which, because of the max
ing of high-class freight, the railroads will
handle at a very low rate of cost.
cit is the greatest thing of the day for
the people of the SOUTH" said Mr.. Vandi-