The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-31
PEANUT OIL MANUFACTURING
NEXT BIG INDUSTRY FOR STATE
Increasing Demand for Oils AS Shown by Growth of Bust
ness in Artificial Butter and Lard-Meat Oils Grow
Scarcer. * aass aaa4
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the State possesses. Ten years ago
it was a little place containing a few
houses to shelter the men who work.
ed at the brick yard and at the saw
mill. 1t is not so big as a barn
door now, to borrow from Mercutio,
but it will serve as the illustration.
Anybody who knows Vass knows
A. Cameron. If should be asked
TO pick out a gentleman, one who
could be regarded as a definition of
the word, like as not 1 should say
Cameron, of Vass.
A. Cameron is a quiet, genial, hon
est, Industrious Scotchman, whitening
at the temples, sense under his hat,
n clear eye, and a reputation at the
bank.
send my cotton to his gin and
never go there to see what he does
with it. He gins it, weighs it, sends
it to his store house, keeps track OF
II. a the price when l sell 1T,
sends me his check according to his
figures, n l never bother to look
over weights, prices or any thing else
for / would as soon think of doubt
ing my own weights as those of A..
Cameron. If I can give a man any
better credentials than that, l don't
know how to go about it.
Sure. We have a lot of good men in
his community, as in most
ties, but 1 don't know of any man
ill DidCt tHdl L IdIh SIC do q llioIl
than A. Cameron.
Which has not really any thing par
t~icularly to do with this story. The
way Mr.. Caremon gets into it is this.
When / first knew him and Vass he
was running a saw mill there, and
the saw mill was the big part of the
Vass settlement. The lumber was cut
out. Instead of following the vanish
ing timber crop to Florida and out
to the South, Mr.. Cameron put up a
cotton mill. Now he has a perman-
ent industry around which q town is
growing up, and he has become a de-
veloper of his neighborhood and a
promoter of industry. His gin is a
model. and it encourages cotton grow
ing. His mill is a model, and it en-
courages cotton growing. He has
started a line of industry that six
or eight years ago was practically un-
dreamed of, at least On a considerable
scale in his neighborhood.
\ Factor i'm a Record.
A. Cameron is one of the manifesto
tions of what is doing in cotton mill
ing and cotton growing. He is one
of the factors in creating that record
which shows that the South is rapidly
expanding North as a spinner of cot
ton, although a few years ago the
North had a lead so great that h.
one suspected the South would come
to gain the supremacy, so soon, if
ever.
Something like ten years ago the
South caught up with the North on
u consumption of abOu two million
bales a year. Now the South is chas-
ing hard TOWARD three million bales a
year, and the mills built by men like
A. Cameron. of Vass, are doing a big
part in making the change.
Another typical man in this change
that is coming about is a chap with
a ~Sood-natured face, a square jaw
and a substantial Teutonic ancestry
If the name Of Barringer can be be
lieved. Barringer is at the head O
the oil mill at Sanford, where much
OF the cotton seed goes from Vass
Barringer stands for the men WIN
are building up what is to be eventu
ally n of the great industries of tn,
world, and in which North CarOlin;
is to have it's share because Nortl
Carolina is n of the most favored
agricultural states on the globe.
Not so. The cotton oil industry ha
not reached its development yet. l
has only started, and I assure you tina
it has a whole family Of relations tina
are going to grow up in this State.
a Look at the Oil Business.
Let us a a look at the oil bust
ness. Oil is one of the essentials {
life and to all kinds of industry. Tn
production of mineral oil alone fror
wells in the United States totals full
two hundred million barrels a yea
at the present time. Yet the pric
of mineral oil at that enormous pre-
duction is higher h it was twent
years & when the production wa
not more than a fourth as large. TIL
life of an oil we'll at its high produo
ton is hardly more than six month
to a year The oil wells of the Unite
States are rained. All Of the old o
fields have long 6 ceased to /
considerable factors. 1t is only b
discovering new fields farther an
farther West that the supply is keI
up. This can not go on a great viii
longer. for already the territory ca!
of the Mississippi is practically drail
ed out, and the region west of TT
river is following fast. Yet the gre;
production is not keeping up wit
demands. The increasing populate
and the increasing needs are steadi
asking for more oil. The cotton see
mills are steadily asking for mo-
seed to make more oil. The pain
makers are going out to the flax cou1