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Revision as of 14:07, 16 November 2009
The cotton industry expanded dramatically in late nineteenth-century Arkansas as new technology made the processing of cotton fibers more economical and the processing of cotton seeds feasible. Seeds were milled to make hulls, linters, meal, and cottonseed oil.
1890s Little Rock firms
- Arkansas Cotton Oil Company
- Howell Cotton Company
- J. B. Miller & Company
- Miller Ragland & Company
- Little & Martin
- Little Rock Cotton Mills
- M. W. Taggart & Company
- Southern Cotton Oil Company
- Thomas Manufacturing Company - cotton presses, cotton elevators, cotton gins
