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Oliver Oil Company
| Name | Oliver Oil Company |
| Ortssitz | Columbia (South Carolina) |
| Straße | Garden Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Ölmühle |
| Quellenangaben | [Robbins: Historical and descriptive sketch (1888) 46] [United States miller 19 (1885) Nr.3, S. 92, Anzeige von Westinghouse, mit Referenzen] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1885 |
Gründung durch Oliver Brothers |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Öl |
1885 |
Gründung |
1888 |
[Robbins] |
aus Baumwollsamen |
| ZEIT | 1888 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The plant for cotton seed oil manufacture, established by the Oliver Brothers in 1885 set the ball to rolling which has brought additional industries, and is of itself a business pf no mean importance. Some four acres of ground was purchased by the firm, four acres south of the Union Depot, brick buildings erected at a cost of 18.500, a full outfit of modern oil mill machinery, costing over 50.000 put in operation, and the plant is now nearing the close of its third successful season in the business. The same company started the Charlotte. V.C., mills prior to locating a plant here, and the Oliver Oil Company still operates that in connection with the Columbia mill. The president of the company is A. E. Thornton, of Atlanta, while Geo. L. Baker, of Selma, Ala., now a resident of Columbia, officiates as secretary and treasurer here. J. A. Rankin is superintendent and M. C. Robertson bookkeeper. The capacity of the mill is over 90 tons per day (24 hours), and the season, which will close in May, will have used up over 12.000 tons of seed. From this 4,000 tons of meal is produced, which is principally returned to the farming sections of this State as a fertilizer, or used as feed for stock. More than 10.000 (50 gallon) barrels of oil are produced during the year, and this is principally shipped to the eastern markets. The cotton seed oil has rapidly secured a staple market value in the
metropolitan cities, as by many it is used instead of the olive for salads, etc. For culinary purposes it is fast
taking the precedence of lard, being without doubt decidedly preferable to animal fat from a hygienic stand-point, and equally as good from an economical and epicurean basis. It is doubtless used to a large extent in making butterine and other compounds of that nature. As we give a detailed account of the process of oil manufacture in the following
article, we shall not reproduce it here for the operation in the two mills is almost precisely the same. The Oliver Oil Company expend for cotton seed more than 175.000 per annum, and their weekly pay roll foots up to nearly 500. Some 75 men are employed, and the amount of money which they circulate in the city adds materially to the volume of the floating currency in Columbia. |
| QUELLE | [Robbins: Historical and descriptive sketch (1888) 46] |
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