New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-09
souTHERn MISREPRESENTATION OIL

The practicabilty Of manufacturing oil from rosin
is attracting widespread attention throughout the
interior. We are pleased to notice that cur country
exchanges are quoting literally from the articles Of
the city press on the subject and calling the atten
ton Of their readers to the merits of enterprise IN
which results of the largest moment to the South are
involved. a
On Saturday last we quoted an article from the
Natchitoches Chronicle, taking very sensible as
well as practical view of the matters to which we
appended some comments opposite to the occasion.
The Holmesville (pike CO. Miss) Independent OF the
ID inst contains some very excellent observations
setting forth the practical nature of the undertaking,
the ipexhaustb;lity Of the raw material, the large
nrots that would necessarily flow from the transfor-
nation of rosin into oil under the new invention, and
tbe mighty source of wealth that is thus opened to
the south We will here subjon portion of the re-
marks of our Holmesvile contemporary:
Tr,lv the South is beginning to exhibit the monop
oles which she is destined to enjoy by Judlclous
and skifll management of the resources in her own
hand Our cotton and our oil-the one now clothes
the world while the other, the product OF the refuse
seed and Of our pine forests will soon be resorted to
to illuminate the world and keep the wheels OF com
| merce moving everywhere. When it is remembered
that oil enters into every department Of manufacture,
from the construction of the finest cambria needle to
nor the steamer be propelled without oilthat the
press the great lever Of civilization and pioneer of
progress, could not be run without oi-an idea may
be formed of the immensely of the oil trade So great
is the demand that all former sources of supply are
fast falling The whale has been driven from one
haunt to another, until now his unfrequent presence
in the fisheries compels the conviction that the world
must look to some other source for supply OF the
indispensable article Of OIL In this emergency, we
find that France and England have found it necessary
to remove the duties on the import of turpentine
rosn and oil into those countries. 1t has been well
remarked that this simple fact speaks volumes Of
praeticalities. E Gas $
be stopped for this deficiency of the supply OF the ne
cessary lubricating material from the that
have hitherto kept them in motion. Here, in the
South new resources daily developing themselves
to render us more and independent of the world
and promising the most lucrative returns to in
creasing wealth. We hail these evidences Of prosper
ity and strength to our immediate section with the
eXuberant outbursts of unaloyed delight and as true
Souhrons desire to every facility granted to this
end. when we feed and cothe ourselves, do our owr
1 printing, burn own oil and gas, and furnish our
selves and the rest Of mankind with the necessaryl
bricating material for the movements Of machinery
A manufacture and commerce, we may then apply K
ourselves collectively, the more than princely it'll
A assumed by our unpretendng sheet-that of inde
/ pendent and true S0uthsons'' ss +f
4 The Paulding Clariona paper enjoying the larges
circulation and influence in Mississippi Il
the new enterprise in the following language
4 SOUTHERN DEvELoPMENT.-The New Orleans Ores
cent of the 18th ult. has article under the abov
head which is calculated to interest particularly tn
owners and settlers of our extensive pine forests
1 this State and those who have engaged In the We
new but promising business of tu,penttne making
The interest of the subject is not confined however
4 exclusively to those. Every one who feels concerned
in seeing the vast and Astounding natural resources
/ the South developed by the hand of industry AM
enterprise, and made efficient in adding to the com
mercial wealth, greatness and power which it is per
fecty within her power to achieve, will view thi
4 movement with feelings of lively interest. .r Ia g
The new branch of industry of which the Crescent
speaks is one of far Importance than those who
have paid no attention to the statistics i'll relation tt
it are probably aware The reatlyincreased demand
/ for OIL and the advancing prices, particularly of the
finer qualities, render any new method of producing
| it one of the most tempting and promising openings
for the investment of labor ard capital We shall be
greatly surprised if it is not eagerly embraced by
capitalists and does not ultimately become one Of thu
most important and remuneratiye branches of South
ern industry. one can calculate the untold wealth
which lies undisturbed. and with scarce an efor
being made for its development and realization in gu
neglected and heretofore unappreciated pine forests
+ If we are not wide of the mark the pine forests
what is known East Mississippi" will yield, in
few brief years, larger profit to their owners tha
do the wellcultivated cotton lands of West Missis
4 sippi. At all events such is our confident and we
grounded belief.
We learn that the stock in the " Southern Oil Con
pany is being taken at rate that promises to clos
the subscription books within few days. Our cit
zens should act upon this hint and shares will
ont delay That the investment will prove mmensel
4 profitable there is not shadow of doubt. .I.. .