A $2U,0J0,00J COTTON-HANDLINg CO.
Compressing and Warehousing Cotton and
Other Improvements by a Strong Com- ,
pany, With Sully as President. '
, St. Loujs,
It will be remembered that w.ijie six weeks
(t, Daniel J. Sully;ihr temporarily dethroned
cotton king, announci d that he had quit the
4pit" forever and would henceforth devote
himself to the work of introducing improve
ments in cotton raising and handling. In
accordance with this detei initiation, all the
j jipers were signed here today in the organiza
tion of a gigantic company, whose object is to
develop cotton-handling on a vast scale. The
S uthern Cotton Corporation will be the name
of the company, with a capitalization of
jo,ooo,coo $5,000,000 preferred stock and
15,000,000 common. Sully will be presi
de nt!4 The company is being financed by
men of undoubted strength and prominence
in the financial world, who will be actively
identified with its management The funda
mental feature will be baling at the ginhouse,
Sully having some time since secured control
of the Whitman square bale cotton press,
which it is proposed to manufacture and sell.
Other operations of the company include
further radical improvements in cotron handl
ing all the way from the field to the factor.
Improved methods of culture, better ginning,
a process of final balitlg at the gin which
obviates the necessity for further coupressing,
and a great wear-housing system- extending
over the whole country's territory, which will
store cotton and issue receipts on which local
as well as outside banks can loan with abso
lute safety are among the innovations which
the company will introduce. '
After an examination of the Whitman square,
cotton-bale press and its products Mr. John
E. Searles, the one-time sugar king and later
the promoter, if nor tne father, of the round
cotton bale made admissions to his friends to
day regarding the superiority of the Whitman
baler that were of utmost importance to the
entire cotton world. Mr. Searles, still one of
tiie largest stockholders in the American Cot
lou Co., which owns the patent for producing
the roundlap bale, has recently been invited
by many leading stockholders of the American
Cotton Co. to return to the management of
thai company, and he has had under consider
ation the acceptance of the offer and the pro-
table reorganization of the company.
Announcement in the Manufactures Record
sme weeks ago concerning the organization
by Daniel J. Sully of a cotton-handling com
pany, together with Mr. Sully's declaration
mat in getting hold of the Whitman square
bale press he had secured the machine for
making the ouly" perfect bale, induced Mr.
Searles to personally examine the Whitman
press and bale before going any further with
plans for again taking an active part in the
artairs of the round bale company.
Accordingly, Mr. Searles came to St
Louis, where the Whitman cotton press is
made, and where it is exhibited in the Agri
cultural Palace of the Worlds's Fair. In
co.npaiiy wiih a mechanical engineer of inter
national reputation Mr. Searles today made a
most exhaustive examination of the press and
tuc bale, and it has leaked out through a close
personal friend and business associate of Mr.
Srarles that at the conclusion of the inspection
he wired to William N. Cromwell, attorney
lor tae American Cotton Co., New York, to
t.ic e.ie:t that the .Whitman process is entirely
practicable; that it is thoroughly protected,
and in a.rong hands would be so dangerous a
competitor tuat the American Cotton Co.u.ust
control the Whitman press if that company is
to continue in business. " N,
To his triend Mr. Searles unhesitatingly
a lmitted that the Whitman bale docs all he
had hoped to do with the round bale, antag
onizes nobody metis every objection which he
bad to tight with the rouud bale in changing
the form of the package. He practically ad
mitted that it would Ur folly to try to push the
round bale agaiust this newer and better inven
tion. Another point recognized by him as of
irreat value in the proposition as outlined by
th Sullv eomiianv is the determination
j r j ..
attempt 110 monopolistic control of the Whit
nu press, but to put than on sale to every
body, liy the way, as showing the popular
favoi it is receiving. Mr. Edward Alkinson,
t..c coitou insurance expert of Boston, has
suggested as a fitting name for the Whitman:
iiutiy bale the "Underwriters" bale.
uudeitood that the suggestion will be adopted.
- Albert Phenjs.
an absolutely safe warel.rue, whoe cotton
rocipts would bvV Rilt-ede collat-ral' in local
wnksasjWell as rinaiicxl centers, as giain
elevator receipts are today. Howtwr great
was tin- ood which Milly's fiht for hiUh-r-prlced
cotton brought to the barer oi ihe
South, we believe that in this orgarizat:on
there rro pos ibilitics of sti 1 greater good
through the hupiovcruem of cottonseed, which
will be a part .f the company's business, the
development cf better ginning and compressing
systems, as wep as in the establishment of t
broad warehouse system. Ed. Manufacturers'
Record. ,
COLUMBUS ITEMS.
. F Ly Weaver was one of the busy men
about town Monday and Tuesday.
County Commissioners, T. M. Ruppe and
W. Y. Miller, spent Monday night at the
home of F. L. Weaver. j
H. G. Cannon, of Lynn, was in town!
Monday, and judging from the way he was !
hustling about, he had plenty of business that
required his attention.
J. T. Waldrop was among the out of town
visitors here Monday. Mr. Waldrop spoke
encouragingly of the conditions of crops
generally in his section and seemed to be
especially elated over his own prospects for a
big harvest in the fall.
County Superintendent of Education, W.
M. Justice, spent Monday in town.
T. C. Mills, of Tryon, was a visitor to
Columbus Monday. . '
M. A. Cornwell,. of Green's Creek town
ship, was a business visitor here Monday.
J. A, Hines, of Collinsville, spent Monday
with the people of Columbus. -
A Mrs. Klincks, of Charleston, S. C, is
stopping at the Columbus hotel.
Mrs. Westlake and daughter, Helen, went
on Thursday to Log Cabin Inn to spend a
few weeks on top of the mountain.
J. G. Hughes and his assistants, Messrs.
L. H. Cloud, W. E, Hill and T. E. Walter,
have begun to erect the addition to the young
ladies dormitory of the Central Industrial
Institute. The work is getting well under
way and will be pushed along as rapidly as
possible.
Register of Deeds F. M. Burgess, is now
busy working on the tax list.
Rev. W. M. Whiteside and his mother,
are visiting friends and relatives in Gaston
county. Mr. Whiteside is also traveling in
the interests of the Central Industrial Institute.
He will piobably return about Monday, 1 8th.
N. T; Mills, of Poplar Grove, stopped on
his journey through town Wednesday long
enough to subscribe to the Asheville Semi
Weekly Citizen and The Poik County
News. Follow his example and do likewise,
ye who are not subscribers. You will never
regret it
Mrs. W. M. Whiteside and children are
visiting Mrs, Whiteside's father, Mr. "Benny"
Wilson on Green River.
to
"The above dispatch of the organization of
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a company with Mr. bully as presiaem ana
with some of the leading financial people of
the country as active manager is one of the
most important announcements which has
been made for a long time connected with the
development ol the South. It is important tn
that after the most thorough investigations of
the Whitman press it has been found that it
meets every requirement for puttings up a
square bale of cotton at the gin, and thus
avoiding the expense of rehandling and recom
pressing, doing in this respect.wbat the round
a good deal ?a!e'y to make his appointment.
He walked from Lynn to Bethlehero last Suu
lay.: .He came up through the woods and old
;wlds with his Sunday sdioes ripped, muddy
and jxttora of one nearly off,"' having come
through field?, and along by-paths to rua'ce
time. But after alt, he was cheerful apof
ogizinj for his plight and preached with his
tisUil viror nd earnestness.
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North Carolina, 1 c ."
Polk County, ' Superior Court.
Mary E. D. Blanton,
J. W. Gardner and wife Maggie A. Gardner.
The defendants above named, J. W.
Gardner and wife Maggie Gardner, will take
notice : That an action entitled as above has
been brought against them in the Superior
court of Polk county, North Carolina, by the
plaintiff above named, for the purpose of
compelling said defendants to execute to said
plaintiff a deed for certain land lying in Polk
county, N.C, under contract for conditions
broken.. Arid said defendants will further
take notice that they required to appear before
the Judge of-the Superior court,at a court to
be held for the county of Polk, at the court
bouse in Columbus, N. C, on the 4th Mon
day after the first Monday in September 1904,
and answer or demur to the complaint of the;
plaintiff which will be deposited with , the
Clefk of the Superior court of said county
within the first three days of the Term, or
the plaintiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
J. P. Arlrdge,
Clerk Superior Court, Polk County.
This July 1 2th, 1904. 8-4
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MILL- SPRING NEWS, .
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Salisbury is up on a visit to. her sister Mrs.
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city if they all attend as they should. Our
bale was expected to do in the saving of re-J people are pleased that the institute is to be
cotupressiug charges without the radical rfr. nc nere for the two counties and that it begins
volution in the shape of the bale. The world next week. But why has Polk so few teachers?
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square bale, and tne wnuman F.., ' h Method"ist' Church next 2nd Sunday.
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