"This early Twenties photo of the cotton gin on Hazel, between First and Second, was made by L. D. Oaks.  Sampling cotton in the foreground are T. W. Wynn and L. G. Black associates of the Clay County Cotton Company.  Lute Ruff and John Hardesty, employees are standing by the cotton bales on the platform.  Others in the photograph are unidentified."

Submitted by Danny Moore