THE GIANT OF COTTON COMPRESSES. 



MORSE IMPROVED TYLER. 



Uiiparalled Success ! Ten Built and put in Operation 

 in the last Six Months ! Seven in this City ! 



The forty years' use of the TYLER PRESS proves 

 its principle superior to all others. The Morse im- 

 provements add fifty per cent, to its economy and 

 effective power. 



The cylinder, placed above and out of 

 the way, can be enlarged to any size 

 without spreading the frame, securing 

 remarkable COMPACTNESS and DUR- 

 ABILITY. 



The ingenious shape of rack and 

 sectors gives an IMMENSE and PRO- 

 GRESSIVE LEVERAGE, securing 

 better results with 100 lbs. steam than 

 others with 140, SAVING TEN TO 

 EIFTEEN DOLLARS PER DAY IN 

 EUEL, two boilers being ample for our 

 largest presses. 



It is least liable to get out of order 

 because so perfectly simple in construc- 

 tion. 



Its free piston alone 

 gives it 25 per cent, 

 of power. By an 

 ingenious shape of 

 the channel bars 

 nearly all the slack 

 of the ties is taken 

 up. 



In' short, it has 

 the unanimous in- 

 dorsement of all 

 first-class engineers 

 and pressmen as a 

 marvel of simi'li- 



CITY, STRENGTH, 

 DURABILITY, ECONO- 

 MY and POWER. 

 The Morse Presses 

 reduce a bale of or- 

 dinary size to six 



inches in the press ! and are the only presses that fully meet the demands of the Bg®« 

 Their marvelous success and prodigious power may be daily seen at the following presses in 

 this city: ORLEANS, FACTORS', LOUISIANA, PENN'S, PLANTERS, CANAL 

 STREET and LIVERPOOL. 

 New Presses wanted for the opening of next season's business should be ojdered at once. 

 Apply to or address 



STEERS & MORSE, Patentees and Contracting Builders, 



185 GRAVIER STREET, NEW ORLAEXS. 

 EXTRAORDINARY COMPRESSING, 



The new Morse compresses erected in this city during the present season are producing 

 astonishing results, by way of largely increased cargoes of cotton from this port. 



The ship Mary E. Riggs, of 1277 tons American register (1226 British,) has just received 

 a cargo of 5400 bales of cotton, weighing 2,-568,640 pounds ; making 2011 per ton American 

 and2U95 tbs per ton British measurement. 



The first cargo of this ship from this port was 3740 bales ; the last and largest (pre- 

 vious to the present one) was 4364 bales, weighing 1,943,498 pounds. Her present cargo of 

 5400 bales exceeds her largest previous cargo 1036 bales, or 625,142 pounds. With freight 

 at one cent per pound and five per cent, primage the value of this increase, for this me- 

 dium sized vessel, is about $6600. This cargo was compressed without the advantage of 

 a "Tie Puller," in the ordinary course of business, by the Eactors' Press, one of the 

 seven large Morse compresses recently erected in New Orleans by S. B. Steers & Co. 



The only cargoes of single bales approximating this one, are the following : 



The Minnie H, Gerow (1304 tons American) last season, from the Champion Press, 

 2,481.790—1903 IKsperton measurement. 



The Western Empire (1399 tons American register) last season, from the Champion 

 Press, 2022 per ton. 



The Minnie H- Gerow this season, from the International Press (Taylor hydraulic, 

 64-inch cylinders), 2,644,906—2028 pounds per ton. 



But in all these cargoes of 1903, 2022 and 2028 per ton measurement, the pullers were 

 used, for which is claimed an advantage of 20 per cent. 



If the present cargo of the Mary E. Riggs had had this advantage, her 2011 pounds per 

 ton American, and 2095 British, would have been 2413 and 2514 per ton— or say 20 per cent- 

 larger than any cargo of single bales ever cleared in this country. 



The Mary E. Riggs' largest previous cargo of 4,364 bales averaged only 445 lbs per bale. 

 Present cargo of 5400 averages 476, Gain in bales is therefore over 1 400 instead of 1076. 



