Imperial Valley press., 1915-11-30
Great Cotton Seed Mill
Project Is On Foot

tidewater. and the new corporation
will continue the activities of these
plants as they are now carried on, but
upon a larger scale The tidewater
plant is that Of the San Pedro Reduc-
tion Company on Terminal Island and
it is an unique institution because of
its costly and highly efficient machin-
cry and equipment for the sanitary
and scientific treatment of industrial
by products. This company has made
such rapid progress during the year
just ending in improving its protected
processes for the retrieving of oils
and other valuable elements from
these materials that their business has
been phenomenal success and has
led to the organization Of the new
corporation. The other plants figuring
in the merger are the gin of the Mu-
tual Cotton Company of Imperial and
the gin and partly built cottonseed
mill of Powers & Douglas at Blythe.
In addition to these , plants the
new company has purchased the build
ing materials. machinery and equip
ment for > other gins, each of which
will have stands OF so saws. These
will he erected Immediately at CaleX-
leo, where the company has purchased
a site with 500 feet Of frontage on
the Southern Pacific and it is eX-
pected that they will be operating by
the first of January. The partly fin
ished oil mill at Blythe will be rushed
to completion and , other mills will
be built as soon as possible, one at
the company's CaleXico gins and the
other in the northern end OF the great
valley. The plant at San Pedro will
be enlarged by the erection and equip
ment of complete new department
for the extraction of Cottonseed oil
and the manufacture of cottonseed
meal and other products by the pro-
cesses which have made this COM
panY so successful. The combined
value of the plants now operating or
imme ediatelY to be built will be nearly
$500. 200.
To Benefit Cotton Growers.
The immediate plan of the com
pany." said Mr.. Crouch. when seen at
his offices in the Marsh strong build
ing. is to operate the , gins now
running and the being built and to
ship the seed II the san Pedro plant,
together with a large amount of seed
contracted 1bl from blltI gins. MAJ
season however. We expect to have
our several gins and mills i'm the val
ley in full operation. We propose to
place the manufactu of cottonsced
products and by-products upon a much
higher and more diGnified basis.
have every reason to believe our op-
erations will result, not only in the
growing Of more cotton. but also in
securing to the growers better prices.
Ultimately we intend to manufacture
foods for human consumption from the
cottonEeod. as has been demonstrated
as being entirely feasible, but for the
present season we must content our
selves with making only salad oils for
the human family and other foods for
stock and poultry. Because of the
highly sanitary and scientific methods
we use. these products will readily
take front rank in their class and
add much TO the fame of California
as a food producer. The time is not
far distant when one of the thriving
valley towns will become to the cot
tonseed industry what Akron, O., is
to the rubber business"
In order to get the widest and most
effective distribution for it's products.
the California Food Products Com
pany is now negotiating with the Globe
Grain and Milling Company for the