The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-19
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
The Planters Gin, Compress and
Warehouse Co.

II
Warehouse Co.
The Cotton Journal is very
much interested in that which is
4 going on at Brandon, Miss. A
company has been formed there
known as the Planters Gin,
Compress and Warehouse Com
pany. The object of the COM
pany, as set forth in their pros
pectus, is to furnish the planters
in that section of Mississippi with
better ginning facilities, better
COMPRISING and baling and a
complete warehouse plant; to
transact business along the lines
mentioned in accordance with
the most advanced ideas, equip
ping themselves for transacting
business direct with the spinner,
foreign or domestic. This initial
enterprise should be the starting
point of the perfected system
for handling the cotton crop in
the near future, as suggested in
an article by Henry S. Reed,
elsewere in this paper. The best
people in the vicinity of Brandon
are interested in this enterprise,
as the following list of names
will indicate: H. A. Busick, jr.,
J. 7. Shields, R. R. Busick, w.
+. Taylor, A. J, McLaurin, jr.;
w. S. May, w. s.. Crook, G. w.
White, H. A. Busick, ]. T. B.
Berry, M. E. Ward, S. P. Barton,
Jas. H. Glass and r. P. Walters.
This gin, compress and ware
house company will have the
very best of machinery and
equipments, will also be fortified
for the purchase of seed cotton,
will assist in financing the crop
in their immediate neighborhood,
and it is contemplated in the
organization to do everything
which logic suggests, towards
putting the cotton industry in
their particular locality on better
footing than has heretofore pre-
vailed. The attention of the cot
ton industry is attracted to this
initial enterprise, and it is hoped
and expected that the present
scheme will be enlarged, and
that planters and cotton men
generally will take much interest
in the various steps taken by
this company towards its COM
Ipletlon. 1t is evident sto every
one that better methods are de-
manded and the time to do things
is when there are things to do.
We would suggest that all those
who are interested, write to r.
?. Walters, of the Rankin County
Bank, Brandon, Miss, and we
hope there will be a cooperation
very much wider spread than
was originally contemplated by
the movers in this splendid en-
terprise. If the cotton planters
would take the active interest
right now, that circumstances
warrant, an initial ginning, COM
pressina and warehousing plant
can be inaugurated that will
serve as an OBJECT lesson, and
sales can be made direct from
Brandon to British and New
England spinners which will be
entirely satisfactory to the spin
ners, and they, in turn, will give
this enterprise in the producing
country, not only their moral
support, but if necessary, their
financial support. In other
words, mill owners will take
stock in similar enterprises, be-
cause there is no question in the
world but what the spinner
would prefer dealing direct with
the producer if he could be per-
mitted by business arrangements
than dealing with third parties
brokers, cotton merchants, etc
and the best Of good feeling
should exist between : the pro-
ducing and consuming classes.
When the grower and spinner
know each other better, through
such institutions as the one
under consideration, appreciation
will take the place Of distrust
and both will profit by reason of
closer contact. The progress of
the Planters Gin, Compress and
Warehouse Company will be
carefully noted by cotton inter
ests in this and foreign lands.
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