The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-06
THE ARpMoRE OIL AND MILLING
COMPANY.


The Ardmore Oil & Milling Co..
manufacturers of cotton seed prod.
ucts. has mills at Ardmore and Tish.
omingo, Okla, and gins at Ardmorc.
Marietta. Berwyn, Mannsville. Tisho.
mingo, Russet and Rea, Okla.
The company was organized some
fifteen years ago and under the able
management of Mr.. w. II. Moore. q
at once took place among the lead.
ing manufacturing industries of the
city and state. From the original in.
vcstmont of $4,000 the business has
broadencd until it now represents an
investment Of over $2j0U0O.
The manufacture of cotton seed
and its products may be said TO be
in it's infancy. Those who have
reached middle life can remember
twenty-five or thirty years ago cot
ton seed was practically waste
product What could be- sold at all
brought 1-2 to cents per bushel
or about $l.0O per ton The first
mills. constructed i'm a very crude
manner and operated secretly be-
ing enclosed by high board walls
with guards at each gate to- prevent
outsiders entrance, were operated by
the most ignorant class of negroes
the management only being in the
hands of white persons. These mills
advanced the price of limited
quantity OF the seed near the mills.
to two and three dollars per Ton and
it is said that the future of the iu.
dustry was in a manner forcsccn and
a company of New York capitalists
was organized and the entire indus.
try at that time was taken over by
them. This company erected other
and better mills improved methods
of manufacture and though consider
ed a trust the price OF cotton seed
was advanced once more. The eye
of the Southern banker, merchant
and farmer. always open TO his in
tcrost. saw in the manufacture of cot
ton seed, an exclusive southern I'm.
dustry, great possibilities and inde-
pendent mills began to spring M in
every town of any Importance. back
ed by home people. The so-Called
trust was at first inclined TO fight
this movement. but the tide was too
great. They succeeded in buying and
closing down a few of the independ-
cnts but several new ones would
come for every old one closed. I'm
1883 there was less than one hundred
cotton seed oil mills in operation
and by actual count in 1908 there
was eight hundred mills in operation.
The capacity of the mills today
are greater than the production of
cotton seed. Statistics show the
mills are able 10 crush the entire
crop in less than five months of the
year. Seed are selling on an average
of $500 per ton or about $3.50 per
bale increase on every bale of cotton.
The products are being consumed in
every nation in the world by man
and beast. Your horse, mule COW,
sheep. goat hog and poultry like the
meal and cake The oil. the purest
vegetable fat. Natures gift to the
Sunny South" is the most healthful.
The true value of cotton seed has
not been reached
Today the greatest hindrancc 70
cotton seed reaching its true value
is the prejudice against the prod
ucts by the producer France. Ger
many and England are all said TO
be greater consumers of these prod
ucts than the United States Figure
what the cotton seed oil industry has
done for the South in the last TWEEN
ty-five years and then decide, Mr..
Producers. if you are not a partner
in the business, whether you have in
vested a dollar or not. haven't you
received pretty fair dividends
II other people have made money
in the business you have received
the lions share of the profits and
the end has not been reached
With your assistance In enlarging
the markets a liberal patronage and
consumption at home and on the
farm of the products. cotton seed
will be selling in five or ten years
at twenty dollars per ton with a
home demand for every ton produced.