By Lynn Willoughby
Fair to Middlin' is the recipient of the 1992 Mrs. Simon Baruch college Award of The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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A Cotton Economy 11 2. Apalachicola Aweigh 32 3. Cotton Money 53 4. Cotton Banks 69 5. Financing the Cotton Trade 90 6. Cotton Men 100 7. The End of an Era 116 Notes 139 Bibliography 173 Index 193 About the Author 199 Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award 201 Page ix Illustrations and Tables Maps The Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley 15 Railroads and the Chattahoochee Valley 121 Photographs Columbus on the Chattahoochee, 1868 16 The Port of Apalachicola, 1837 35 Steamer Shamrock, Circa 1860s 51 Silver Pitcher Awarded by Apalachicola Chamber of Commerce in 1843 105 Tables 2-1.
When cotton arrived from the farm, it was either in the form of "round bales," that were tubular pieces of bagging that had been filled by tramping the cotton into it, or "square bales" covered with bagging that had been compressed first by "foot labor" and then with a large wooden screw. The plantation presses were not sufficiently strong to compress the bales for export, and by the time they reached the coast they were in poor condition. Before the cotton left Apalachicola it had to be recompressed into a smaller parcel by using steam or hydraulic power.
The factor's primary task was to find a buyer for the planter's cotton, but in order to do that he first had to evaluate the cotton, repackage it, and store it. Once it was in a warehouse the factor studied the returns of all the American and foreign markets to determine trends in the price of the staple and in which market he should sell the cotton. If the product was not sold locally, he had to engage a ship at a cost that would not devour the profits of the final sale. Most importantly the factor had to arrange financing.