Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: American Cotton Oil Company Papers (Z/0067).
Creator/Collector: American Cotton Oil Company.
Date(s): 1903-1914.
Size: 3.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff.
Provenance: Gift of Donor, of Place, State, on Date; Z/U/XXXX.XXX.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: American Cotton Oil Company Papers (Z/0067), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

History:

American Cotton Oil Company

History to come.

 

Scope and Content Note:

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:

  • Belzoni Oil Co., Belzoni
  • Brookhaven Progressive Cotton Oil Co., Brookhaven
  • Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., Greenwood and Jackson
  • Canton Oil Co., Canton
  • Carrollton Cotton Oil Co.
  • Central Cotton Oil Co., Jackson
  • Clay County Cotton Oil Co., West Point
  • Crenshaw Cotton Oil Co., Crenshaw
  • DeSoto Oil Co., Greenville
  • Eagle Cotton Oil Co., Meridian
  • Exporters Cotton Oil Co., Gulfport
  • Grenada Oil Mill, Grenada
  • Gulfport Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Co., Gulfport
  • Hazlehurst Oil Mill and Fertilizer Co., Hazlehurst
  • Houston Cotton Oil Co., Houston
  • Imperial Cotton Oil Co., Macon
  • Jackson Cotton Oil Co., Jackson
  • Jackson Oil and Refining Co., Jackson
  • Kosciusko Oil Mill and Fertilizer Co., Kosciusko
  • Laurel Oil and Fertilizer Co., Laurel
  • Magnolia Cotton Oil Co., Magnolia
  • Magnolia Oil Mill and Manufacturing Co., Magnolia
  • Meridian Fertilizer Factory, Meridian
  • Minter City Oil Works, Minter City
  • Mississippi Cotton Oil Co., Columbus, Grenada, Jackson, Meridian, West Point, and Yazoo City
  • Natchez Oil Co., Natchez
  • Newton Oil and Manufacturing Co., Natchez and Newton
  • Okolona Cotton Oil Co., Okolona
  • Oxford Oil Mill Co., Oxford
  • Pearl Cotton Oil Co., Columbia
  • People's Oil Mill and Fertilizer Works, Aberdeen
  • Planters Oil Mill and Manufacturing Co., Greenwood
  • Pontotoc Cotton Oil Co., Pontotoc
  • Port Gibson Oil Works, Port Gibson
  • Producers Cotton Oil Co., Yazoo City
  • Refuge Cotton Oil Co., Columbus and Vicksburg
  • Starkville Cotton Oil Co., Starkville
  • Union Brokerage and Commission Co., Vicksburg
  • Vicksburg Cotton Oil Co., Vicksburg
  • Wesson Oil and Fertilizer Co., Wesson
  • Winona Oil and Manufacturing Co., Winona

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:

  • n.d., 67 items
  • 1903, 25 items
  • 1904, 869 items
  • 1905 234 items
  • 1906, 512 items
  • 1907, 566 items
  • 1908, 599 items
  • 1909, 530 items
  • 1910, 25 items
  • 1911, 429 items
  • 1912, 280 items
  • 1913, 308 items
  • 1914, 110 items