Oral history interview with Ernest Griffith, 1982 November 4.

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Griffith, Ernest A., 1896-. Oral history interview with Ernest Griffith, 1982 November 4.

Oral history interview with Ernest Griffith, 1982 November 4.

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Interview with Ernest Griffith concerning his experiences as owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner in Weinert, Texas. Griffith discusses his family background, his education in Texola, Oklahoma, his part-time employment as a cotton picker, his involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores in West Texas in the 1920s, and the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin in Weinert, Texas in 1927. He also comments on buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, the variations in cotton prices, the Depression in Weinert, the sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimbell Milling Company during the off-season, dry land farming, the reasons for the decrease in cotton gins, and the use for cotton burrs and seed hulls. Griffith talks about the sale of his cotton gin business in 1946, the operation of gins in Sherman, Texas and the grain department in Woodward, Oklahoma for the Kimbell Milling Company, the Weinert cotton gin personnel, the significant changes in the cotton ginning business during thirty years, the ginning procedure, and his civic and trade association activities.

72 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT