Clay County AlArchives News.....Ashcraft, Thomas Cotton House Screws September 17, 1851
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South Western Baptist September 17, 1851
THE UNDERSIGNED have recently made valuable improvement on the COTTON HOUSE 
SCREW, for which improvement a PATENT has been issued. He now prepared to sell 
Individual Rights, the Right to Counties or States, on liberal terms. 
It is confidently believed that the Cotton Screw, when understood by Cotton 
Planters, will be used to the entire exclusion of all other Cotton Screw and 
Presses now in use, from the fact that the whole Screw and Machinery is entirely 
protected from exposure to rain, &c being situated in a house, and when properly 
constructed, will last from twenty to thirty years, and even longer when the 
process of packing easier and quicker performed, the Balds better shaped and 
equally as heavy the entire cost of construction but a trifle greater than the 
common Screw. Order for Rights directed (free possage) to THOMAS ASHCRAFT will 
receive prompt attention. Wesabulga, Randolph County Ala. 

[Certificates]
LaGrange Ga June 5, 1849. 
Last Fall Mr. Thomas Ashcraft put up for me one of his Improved House Presses, 
which has since been Patented. It is entirely protected from the rain, and is 
used, however inclement the weather, without exposing the hands. By it the whole 
process of packing I made safe, easy, convenient and speepy. I all these 
particular, as well as for durability, I consider it fur superior to any Cotton 
Screw or Press I have seen. H. A. HARRISON, 

This will certify that Mr. Ashcraft has built for me one of his Patented Cotton 
Presses, which I have had in use during the past season. I consider them far 
more superior any Cotton Press I have ever met with, they are much more 
convenient for the purpose then the Old-Fashioned Press, and as for their 
durability, from the fact of their being entirely under over. It is difficult to 
say how long they will last. his X JAMES A. ATCHISON.
Troup Ga. June 5, 1849. mark. 

LaGrange, 27th May 1851. 
Mr. Ashcraft, Dear Sir, I have visited Gen. H. A. Haralson's Plantation, for the 
purpose of seeing your Patent Screw, and I take pleasure in saying, that it is 
the best I have ever seen, its simplicity and durability, it not surpassed by 
any now in use now. JAMES HERRING P.M.

The above Patentee is now engaged in putting up one of his Screws at Mr. R.R. 
Pool's. It. 15 miles S. West of Marion. It would be to the interest of Farmers 
to call and see it before they put up Screws, it will be completed in ten to 
fifteen days.

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