Year: 1859

To Cotton Planters, Commission Merchants
Editors of Papers, and The Friends of III,
South-- Patented Invention for SPINNING
the Cotton Crops on the Plantations di
reclt from the Seed, fully demonstrated


by Which the Planters net income Il
doubled or more than doubled I


1.-THE above invention has been put into complete
4 and successful operation on the plantations o.


one of the most distinguished gentlemen Of Mis-


sissippi and he invites Planters and all interested
! to go and see it. The machinery works beauti'
i fully. Little negroeslearned to attend it in few


days, and the yarns have not only commanded the


premium at the Mississippi State Fair, but one


of the judges states (who is a spinner of twenty


years experience) that they are about double as


strong as any that were in competition with them


and now all question, doubt or conjecture as to


its practicablity is satisfactorily and positively


answered. by its actual and daily working demon


straton. Working on one plantations proves that


it will work on ALL


The machinery was exhibited at the Crystal


Palace in New York. and the Judges Of the Amer
iean Institute awarded it full and we'll deserved
report in which they stated that, "as the cotton
passed directly on from the seed continuously from
my Hermaphrodite to the other machines, by
which excluded from use the ginning and balipg
machinery of the plantation, and several machines
in the factories to open and dsentangle it, and
which are very violent in their operations; must
make my yarn of longer and less broken staple,
and therefore it must be q stronger and better
yarn"


But THE UNPARALLELED FEATURE OF
THE INVENTIONS IS-that it DOUBLES THE
NET INCOME of tie Planter adopting it., and l,
in effect, sell him plantation, negroes stock,
etc., fully as valuable to him in its production as
that on which he makes his cotton and other at
tendant crops; and this prodigious result is
achieved by him without strain or difficulty.


My invention consists in the discovery that the
same capital that now produces a crop Of cotton,
the same steam or water power that now gins and
bales it, the same expenses very nearly that ac
crue to raise the CROP AMI the labor of few
little negroes and women, ineffective as field
hands, could attend the machinery, which would
put the crop into yarns. instead of ginning and
baling it as cotton, whereby the planters income
would be doubled a better yarn be spun, at least
nine -tenths of the risk of fire on the plantation
removed, with half the baggng and rope, and
lessened charges, (save those of commissions,
which will be doubled to the commission merchant
as they will be on double amount.) and which
is made practically effective by machinery which
unites the separate processes of the gin and pack
ing house of the plantation and that of the spin
ming factory into one, with great saving in ma
chinery, motive power, labor and capital.


We can make any number or size of yarn
desired, and this invention. from its nature, is
complete and cannot be improved upon.


The cost of the machinery to the planter will
not be as much as half the enhanced value of the
second crop wouhl more than buy the necessary
operatives out and out, if the planter chooses.
The accumulation Of money by this will very soon
pay planters out of debt who are now involved,
and rapidly afford them means, and those not in
debt to carry out their most sanguine wishes.


The yarns are selling here at 19E to 223 c., and
there is not only demand here for many more
than we now make, but we are now fHlly informed
that there is a market for them in Great Britain
and in Europe far beyond our capacity to spin
them, and at prices fully and over netting what
we are getting here. The quotation for such yarns
rs we are now making on the LIST February at
Manchester-extra hard water-twist-was I'D.
per pound, and in Germany 24c., which would
net here 20 to 21c., and the accounts are that
spinners have contracts 90 days ahead In put
ting our crops into yarns we have, perhaps, ten
thousand customers for them to one fol cotton
and hence our ability to get fairer range of
prices than we now do for cotton. The people
from end of the world to the ether, are mass Of
buyers of yarns, while the whole cotton crop is
bought for only few thousand spinners.


To make the powerful inducement to the planter
to spin his crop up more clear and striking, /
would distinctly call his attention to the number
and great value of the hands that in all the year
are employed in raising the crop to the valne of
the lands upon which it and the attendant crops
are made the value of the mules, stock, imple-
ments, machinery, etc., necessary to help raise it
the heavy annual expenses paid out to raise,
gin and pack the crop, let me contrast all this
value and expenses and its net yield with the
more than doubled net yield by my invention, ef-
fected by few half hands and machinery that
costs nothing compared to the value of the lands
and the investment which raises the cotton, and
upon which the outlay, in addition to his present
expenses is for machinery which will last thirty
years, and the wages of spinner and oils.


The moment this is seen and understood by the
planters, that these few half hands and this ma
chinery and trifing outlay will net them as much
or more than their large investment, with the
heavy expenses on it to raise the crop does, they
will not pause in cir decision to avail themselves
of my invention as soon as possible.


That this immensely increased income is not to
be transient, and that the price will not decline
by our spinning the entire crop of the country
into yarns, let me impress these facts on your
minds. The cotton spinner is at heavy outlay
to buy his location and to pay for his factory
buildings and those of the operatives, to arrange
and buy his motive power and his fuel for it, to
buy his machines, to pay his daily expenses for
the hire of his clerks, managers, overseers and
operatives to bgy his daily supply of cotton
pay bis insurance, freight and other expenses
and which, altogether, demands large share of
capital. The actual cost to the spinner, besides
the cost of cotton to spin, is from 8 to 10c. a
pound then, besides, the cost of cotton and the
cost to spin, he must get several cents more for
each pound to pay him his profit on bis capital
and for the trouble he is at. Now, as the planter
has within himself all these items very nearly
and must have them, he evidently is not at this
outlay and expense, and SO what it costs the
spinner for pound Of cotton and to spin pound
of yarn, and some. if not all of his profit, the
planter may be positive he will get for his yarns
The spinner cannot sell below his cost, and as the
planter must make better yarn, as his yarns
appear in market tie present spinners will with
draw from SO unequal contest This must be
apparent to all.


TERMS AND CONDITIONS.


I will have the machinery made in the best
manner, and as low as ] can, which the planter
can have on time for city acceptances. give him
plans and directions for the prepaI alton of his