Murger Gin and Cotton Mill, 1910

ROBERT S. MUNGER, a young man operating his father's gin at Mexia, Texas, from 1883 through 1885, conceived the idea of handling the cotton to the gins by air. It would then be distributed to two or more gins in a battery with a belt distributor, using a common lint flue behind the gins to take the cotton to a battery condenser. The cotton would then be moved to a double box cotton press.

Mr. Munger received a number of patents covering this method of ginning and handling cotton. After making an unsuccessful effort to sell them to several gin manufacturers, he established at Dallas, Texas, in 1884, a small plant for the manufacture of the Munger Ginning System, embodying his principle and ideas. He continued this work individually from 1884 to 1887, at which time he needed capital. He interested a banker, W. M. Gaston, and organized the Munger Improved Cotton Machine Manufacturing Company as a corporation. The officers were R. S. Munger, President, W. H. Gaston, Vice President, and T. E. Littlefield, Secretary and Treasurer. In 1889 W. H. Gaston was made President, R. S. Munger, Vice President, and S. I. Munger, Secretary and Treasurer.