The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-15
JORDAN TO
 SPEAK HERE Meeting to Be Held Next
 Tuesday. PUBLIC TO BE GIVEN INVITATION Subject of Compressing Cotton At the Gin. The Meeting Is Under the Auspices of the Stockholders of the Farmers E Asseeiatioh Cotton warehsuse.
 

The stockholders of the Farmers As sociatfon cotton warehouse, composed largely Of both business men of the city, who own farms, and farmers who are members of both the Farmers Union and the National Cotton Association,
 will hold a very important adjourned
 meeting on Tuesday at Il a. m, in the auditorium of the Commercial Club Harvie Jordan, president of the Ma. tional Cotton Association, will address the meeting on the subject of comprese- Ing cotton at the gin or gin compress sion, cooperative cotton warehouses combined with a warehouse compress
 explaining the demand from, spinneTs for a better and more uniform grade; {; they agree in return, to reduce the heavy tax of six per cent or thirty
 pounds to 500 pound bales as now ex-
 ists.
 In the use of the gin compress, only
 four pounds of cotton bagging Is neces-
 sary to entirely cover up the bale ana
 eliminates the heavy loss to the spin
 ner of the jute fibre, which mixes with the cotton on all the exposed or so cov-
 cred surface.
 Several of these congresses have
 been in operation the past season. aud good results have obtained.
 This meeting will be open to the. public to hear MT. Jordan's address and
 being of such vital importance to this
 great cotton section of the country. q large attendance Is expected. The fol- lowing letter from Mfr. Jordan will be
 of interest:
 Atlanta. Ga, Feb. Il. 1909. Mir. Charles L. Gay, Montgomery, Ala.
 Dear Sir-I have your favor of the
 4th inst. and am very much pleased to
 know that you have shipped the gin
 compressed bale to Liverpool. Colonel NH .H.Na aA eight bales to our friend, Macalister,
 Manchester. England. so that the bale
 could be prominently and practically placed before the attention and for the | inspection of the leading English spin ners. I am also preparing to ship two or three bales to Milan, Italy, for the
 coming annual congress of the Fedora.
 ton of Master Cotton Spinners. who
 have extended me an invitation to make
 this shipment. and. if possible, have our | company represented there, as they | have given us a place on their program 1 for the discussion of the new system of compressing cotton and direct trade. 'I will take pleasure in writing Mfr.
 Kennedy along the lines indicated in your letter.
 "I am very much interested in the figures which you have given me re- garding the cost of carrying cotton iu Liverpool and in Montgomery. and # you do not object, I would be glad to use these figures in connection with an editorial to be published in The Cot ton Journal unless you can furnish me q letter covering the same subject mat ter over your signature.
 "Colonel Maxwell figures that he is netting from sS to $5 per bale on his compress shipments. these figures as
 against the old way of handling. Ac-
 cording to these figures which can be easily verified, 1t would be of immense
 value to you and your associates to have a gin compress in operation du- ring the coming season. We would be
 very glad to join you in this proposi-
 tion and have you use our press. and l will be very glad to go to Montgomery
 at any time to take up this matter on business basis.
 "You have done a great deal toward revolutionizing the handling and mar
 keting of cotton, and wish to congrat- ulate you upon the success which you
 have made and which will necessarily
 attract the attention of leading spin' ners all over the South.
 "With best wishes, beg to remain. "Yours truly, 'sT4aryie Jordan"