Z 0067.000
AMERICAN COTTON OIL COMPANY PAPERS
1903 - 1914
Letters and copies of letters and other documents collected for evidence
in the case of the State of Mississippi vs. the American Cotton Oil Company,
et al, filed by Attorney General Ross A. Collins against all oil mills
buying cotton seed in Mississippi on the charge that the buyers, through
a secret order called the Sons of Plato, were fixing prices of cotton seed.
Among the Mississippi firms which have correspondence and papers included
in the collection are the following:
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Belzoni Oil Co., Belzoni
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Brookhaven Progressive Cotton Oil Co., Brookhaven
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Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., Greenwood and Jackson
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Canton Oil Co., Canton
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Carrollton Cotton Oil Co.
- Central Cotton Oil Co., Jackson
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Clay County Cotton Oil Co., West Point
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Crenshaw Cotton Oil Co., Crenshaw
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DeSoto Oil Co., Greenville
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Eagle Cotton Oil Co., Meridian
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Exporters Cotton Oil Co., Gulfport
- Grenada Oil Mill, Grenada
- Gulfport Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Co., Gulfport
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Hazlehurst Oil Mill and Fertilizer Co., Hazlehurst
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Houston Cotton Oil Co., Houston
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Imperial Cotton Oil Co., Macon
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Jackson Cotton Oil Co., Jackson
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Jackson Oil and Refining Co., Jackson
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Kosciusko Oil Mill and Fertilizer Co., Kosciusko
- Laurel Oil and Fertilizer Co., Laurel
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Magnolia Cotton Oil Co., Magnolia
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Magnolia Oil Mill and Manufacturing Co., Magnolia
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Meridian Fertilizer Factory, Meridian
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Minter City Oil Works, Minter City
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Mississippi Cotton Oil Co., Columbus, Grenada, Jackson, Meridian, West
Point, and Yazoo City
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Natchez Oil Co., Natchez
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Newton Oil and Manufacturing Co., Natchez and Newton
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Okolona Cotton Oil Co., Okolona
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Oxford Oil Mill Co., Oxford
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Pearl Cotton Oil Co., Columbia
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People's Oil Mill and Fertilizer Works, Aberdeen
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Planters Oil Mill and Manufacturing Co., Greenwood
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Pontotoc Cotton Oil Co., Pontotoc
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Port Gibson Oil Works, Port Gibson
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Producers Cotton Oil Co., Yazoo City
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Refuge Cotton Oil Co., Columbus and Vicksburg
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Starkville Cotton Oil Co., Starkville
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Union Brokerage and Commission Co., Vicksburg
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Vicksburg Cotton Oil Co., Vicksburg
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Wesson Oil and Fertilizer Co., Wesson
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Winona Oil and Manufacturing Co., Winona
Content:
Frequent reports by Buckeye Cotton Company of Mississippi to Proctor and
Gamble Corporation in Ohio, of which the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company's central
office was a part, on the condition of crops and business in general (including
the boll weevil problem); direct references to membership among Sons of
Plato (begin in folder 14); announcements of meetings in Memphis, Jackson,
New Orleans by Sons of Plato; lists of Mississippi Seed Houses and scales
in 1905 (12); list of Mississippi Feed Stuff dealers in 1905 (12); telegrams
to Proctor and Gamble Company and to the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company of
Ohio in code (these give first indication of legal action, September, 1912);
list of Mississippi Academy, Sons of Plato (Box 6, folder 177).
Correspondents include: Albert J. Perkins (Memphis), H. W. Crenshaw,
J. Eastland, W. H. Madden, S. N. Malone, J. T. Caldwell, W. B. Gowdy, W.
R. Smith, S. E. Birdsong, G. W. Covington, R. W. Johnson, W. B. Gowdy,
E. M. Durham, R. D. Peet.
The papers are distributed by dates as follows:
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n.d., 67 items
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1903, 25 items
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1904, 869 items
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1905 234 items
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1906, 512 items
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1907, 566 items
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1908, 599 items
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1909, 530 items
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1910, 25 items
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1911, 429 items
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1912, 280 items
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1913, 308 items
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1914, 110 items
Filed chronologically in 210 folders in seven manuscript boxes.
