The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-02
COMPRESS WILL
MAKE The DEMAND
GROW RAPIDLY
Brunswick Capital Should Back
the Enterprise Very
Substantially.
FERTILIZER PLANTS TO COME
President F. D. M. Strachan, of
the Strachan Shipping Co.,
Talks Interestingly of Neces-
sity for Cotton Market in
Brunswick.
FERTILIZER PLANTS TO COME

The fact that Brunswick has long
needed cotton compress and can get
several hundred thousand bales of cot
ton annually that should naturally
come to Brunswick for export on ac-
count of freight rate advantages but
which have gone to Savannah and 9TH
er ports because Brunswick has had
no compress is shown by the fact that
the board of trade has already receiv-
ed an inquiry for names of cotton ex-
porters, the writer of the letter stating
that he had seen in the press that
brunswick is to have compress by
the opening of the cotton season.
- Ihere are 100000 to 25O,O0O bales
oiIfcotton H. Brunswick's natural fer
Hory, the number depending on the
size OF the years cotton crop, that
VIII come to Brunswick for export in
future as the result of the establish
ment OF a cotton compress by the
Strachan Shipping company, provided
the cotton factors m other ports do
not succeed in diverting a consider
able portion of that cotton TO their
ports by virtue Of the control thew
exercise over the planter by having
nnanced his crop and furnished the
fertilizer with which he made the cot
ton. The movement of cotton from
the hands of the farmer is controlled
almost entirely by the cotton fac
forage concerns that furnish the far
mer his fertilizer; in other words, fl
nance his crop, according to informa-
ton furnished The News by the board
of trade, The exceptions are only
those planters who are financially able
to make their crops without outside
aid and are consequently able to sell
TO the best bidder IN the open mar
ket
Secretary Smith, of the board of
trade, states that Brunswick has suf
tered more from not being a cotton
buying market, i: comparison with
other ports, than from any other one
cause in the past, and that the only
remedy is for our local people to form
a corporation to do a cotton factorage
business and colfs~Sl the cotton in
Brunswick's natural territory. If this
is done a fertilizer factory-not a
mixing plant, but an actual factory
with the necessary acid chambers for
producing acid phosphate from phos-
phate rock and sulphuric acid-will be
necessary adjunct While a cotton fac
orage company will necessitate the
establishment of fertilizer factory it
will make much easier the work of
securing one. as it will provide vol
ume of certain sales in addition to ad-
vantages of the tremendous territory
in which Brunswick has lower rates
than other ports-a territory much
larger than Savannah enjoys, the rich
est and fastest growing section of
Georgia. The board of trade is now
working on data for a campaign to in
terest the large fertilizer companies
and the propaganda will be carried to
every one of the lagrer companies in
the United States.
President F. D. Nj. Strachan, of the
Strachan Shipping company, who is to
build the cotton compress, and who,
with the aid of the board of trade, de-
veloped the situation respecting. the
! need of compress. and the posi-
bilities of profit for such an enterprise
discussing the situation with a News