The log cabin Democrat., 1920-10-02
OIL MILL IS GREATLY
 tXTENDED,ENLARCED
VISITORS SHOWN PLANT
Local Mill Now Modern and Complete in Equipment-Shows Process
 of Milling.

 pare favorably with those of much larger cities and which each year is manufacturing products sold for from $250,000 to $500,000, was exhibited yesterday to scores of visitors who called at the plant of the Conway Cotton Oil X Gin Company, at the in Vitation of Manager r. F. Cleaver. The visitors included merchants, business men scores of students and faculties from schools here and others who were interested in the development of in- dustry, Mr. Cleaver and others at the plant extended every courtesy, and explained the course of cotton seed from the time 1t leaves the gin until t comes out as cotton seed oil or a by product. First among the impress sions gained from viewing the plant is it's thoroughness and completeness and the visitor is struck with it's cleanliness.
 In the gin house, which is across the street from the main plant, are two complete gins housed under one roof. Steam is carried from the main boil CT through 300-foot pipe to the big 90-horsepower engine which op- crates the gin, separator taking care of it's condensation while going the distance. A suction pipe from the gin carries the seed to the mill seed house Two electric motors, one of 50 and one ot 23 horsepower, operate the pipe, the seed not being touched by hand.
 The first step in the milling pro cess is started when the seed are moved into the cleaner, a machine which takes out all trash and sends the clean product to the linters in the mill itself. An electric magnet, operat- ed by small dynamo which also sup plies light for the entire plant, cu.ls cut any particles which may be still with the seed. A side light on the mills completeness are devices which automatically sharpen the saws which operate in the linters. These devices operate with more than human precis- ion, the saw merely set in place and the filing stopped when the saw IS ready for use again.
 Leaving the lintars, the seed are ready for the huller, which cracks the seed and conveys the product to the shaker, which separates hulls from meal. Then the hulls go to the hull house and the meat to the mill. Heavy rollers take the meat and fIatten it out in preparation for the final step Ill milling, At this point, the meat IS in the form of flakes, which are routed on the kettles for boiling by steam under high pressure Here the cake IS formed, pressed out and wrap ped Tn cover clothes made of camers hair.
 The final steps in the milling come when the cakes are placed in the steam presser, b boxes to the row, and the oil pressed out under 4,0OO pounds of hydraulic pressure to the square inch. The oil is routed from the presser to the storage tans, remaining there un- til shipped out. Twenty minutes in the presser IS required to extract the oil, After the cover cloth has been removed, two things can happen to the cake from which the oil has been taken. It can be sent to the grinder and be made into cottonseed meal. or It can be sent to the cracker, and turned out in broken particles. This hard meal IS used in the west where the strong winds would blow away or dlnary meal before the cattle could eat it.
 Four products are derived from the milling process, Mr. Cleaver said. The llnters are used in many forms of manufacturing, becoming automo- bile tops, lining for tires or even mounting for sundry articles of con- mon use. The oil, which is the most valuable of the products, is sold to larger plants and is made into the standard cooking oil, Meal and hulls are sold for feed. Four tanks, one of 3O,oOO gallons capacity and three of e.oO2 each, are on the grounds for storage of the oil before it is sold and carried out in tank cars.
 Improvements costing about S15 GOO have been made at the plant during the past F months, Mr. Cleaver sad. Additional machinery and equipment needed to make the mill thoroughly modcrn have been installed and the plant and up to the minute in its thoroughness. The mill is operated only during the cotton season, start ing its run today to continue until about March 1. From expressions of the visitors yesterday. it was evident that while all were aware of the io- cation of the plant ill Conway. none Was aware of the extent to which it