60 A STORY OF COTTON 



It is bound to be admitted, that such a DRASTIC change 

 in the shape, or in the covering of a bale of cotton, would 

 LVIMEDIATELY DRAW severe criticism from each individual 

 industry, that would become FINANCIALLY affected by this 

 change in the method of handling cotton. 



The ONE industry that probably would be the loudest in 

 the denunciation of the method, would be the compressor of 

 cotton, as the profit derived from the actual re-compression 

 of cotton by a compressor, is quite an item, particularly, if 

 the compressor has always looked solely to the profit derived 

 from the re-compressing of cotton for his revenues for con- 

 ducting a compress and storage enterprise. 



If the industries of ALL of the compressors of cotton are 

 to be affected by gin compression being adopted, and, if their 

 re-compressing machinery should become obsolete and un- 

 necessary, they must always bear in mind that, as an OFF- 

 SET for this lack of revenue from re-compressing cotton, 

 they need ONLY to enlarge and modernize their storage 

 facilities. 



The original bale of cotton, as placed on storage, when 

 gin compressed, would occupy only one-half of the room as 

 does a STANDARD BALE, and the compressor's profit that 

 would be derived from storage would be doubled and would 

 ENTIRELY offset the profit that might be lost by the disuse 

 of re-compressing machinery. 



Another interest that would, no doubt, OPPOSE such a 

 DRASTIC change, would be the manufacturer of steel bands, 

 provided that Ihe ROUND GIN COMPRESSED BALE was 

 given preferred consideration. 



At present, there are manufactured, each year, at the steel 

 plants, approximately seventy-eight million iron bands or 

 straps, and the same number of iron buckles. 



If the RECTANGULAR BALE OF GIN COMPRESSING 

 WERE favorably considered, each band now manufactured 

 of approximately eleven feet in length, would then be reduced 

 to eight feet in length, and the market for the unnecessary 

 three feet oi each iron band of the seventy-eight million, that 

 they now manufacture, \\ould no longer obtain. 



