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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.  
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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====
 
====1890s Little Rock firms====
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*[[Southern Cotton Oil Company]]
 
*[[Southern Cotton Oil Company]]
 
*[[Thomas Manufacturing Company]] - cotton presses, cotton elevators, cotton gins
 
*[[Thomas Manufacturing Company]] - cotton presses, cotton elevators, cotton gins
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====1900s Little Rock firms====
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*[[Allen-West Compress Company]]
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*[[Alphin-Lake Cotton Company]]
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*[[Arkansas Cotton Oil Company]]
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*[[Ziba Bennitt & Company]]
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*[[C. C. Burrow & Company]]
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*[[Consumers Cotton Oil Company]]
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*[[Dixie Cotton Oil Company]]
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*[[Knoop, Frerichs & Company]]
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*[[Lesser Cotton Company]]
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*[[R. A. Little]] 
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*[[R. E. Morris & Company]]
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*[[J. W. Pope Company]]
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*[[Southern Cotton Oil Company]]
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*[[George Taylor Compress Company]]
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====Little Rock Cotton Production====
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*1899-1900 - 124,556 bales
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*1900-1901 - 205,129 "
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 15:14, 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

1900s Little Rock firms

Little Rock Cotton Production

  • 1899-1900 - 124,556 bales
  • 1900-1901 - 205,129 "

References

External links