Cotton Industry
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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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Cotton Gins
Cottonseed Oil Mills
The Arkansas legislature passed the first act for the incorporation of a cottonseed oil mill on January 1, 1861. The first mill was subsequently constructed in Pine Bluff.
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
1900s Little Rock firms
- Allen-West Compress Company
- Alphin-Lake Cotton Company
- Arkansas Cotton Oil Company
- Ziba Bennitt & Company
- C. C. Burrow & Company
- Consumers Cotton Oil Company
- Dixie Cotton Oil Company
- Knoop, Frerichs & Company
- Lesser Cotton Company
- R. A. Little
- R. E. Morris & Company
- J. W. Pope Company
- Southern Cotton Oil Company
- George Taylor Compress Company
Little Rock Cotton Production
- 1899-1900 - 124,556 bales
- 1900-1901 - 205,129 "
