New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-28

becomes generally known and the business extends 10
| manner commensurate with its usefulness and i'm
! portance all of which we are firmly persuaded will
happen within very brief period propose to give
description of the works of the Company, located
at Mobile Of the prospects which hold themselves out
inytingy to the stockholders, and Of the profitable
nature Of the enterprise generally.
First we will speak of the grounds, buildings and
wharf belonging to the Company. The location is
eligible, commodious and convenient better selec-
ton could not have been made had the whole South
ern coast been diligently surveyed. The property is
situated directly on Mobile Bay having water front
of one hundred feet, with depth of about five hun
bred and seventy.ive feet The front lot has sub
stantia wharf, at which the water is sixteen feet
deep--a depth amply sufficient and more too for all
the purposes Of the Company. The front lot is Sc
PARTED from the buildings OF the Company, and win
be used for the reception of rosn COAL etc. and to
ship the products of the mandatory. substantial
shed is in process Of erection under which rosin pur
chased in bulk, etc, may be placed and protected
from the weather This front lot is divided from the
general works Of the Company by Water street. On
the right OF the main entrance to the works is two
story brick office and back OF, and adjoining the
Office, is cooper's shop twenty-five feet wide and
sixty two feet long with brick wall and iron roof
En- PEASANT we will remark that the Southern Oil
Company intend making all their own barrels, which
Is rot only sensible, but first rate idea. On the
left Of the entrance as aforesaid is brick warehouse
fifty feet wide and eighty feet in length, perfectly
freproof, in which located four tremendous oil
receivers Of sufficient capacity to contain ten thou
sand gallons each, which is about one months aver
age manufacture. These buildings both front on
Water street. In the rear is the main building, or
factory, in which the machinery is located and the
entire process Of Transforming crude, dirtylookng
rosin, into pure, limpid and valuable machinery,
paint and other oils, carried on. This edtice is
seventy five feet wide, eighty feet long, and fftytwo
feet highs near fre-proof as possible, the roof
ard sides being covered with iron. On entering the
first things that strike the eye fur stills staunchy
set in circular brick work-strong, massive, and
almost indesructble, it would SEEM These extend
nearly the first floor of the building through
the middle of which, we might as well mention here
not, is the railroad, leading from the wharf to the
rear Of the works Back Of the stills are the pitch
kettles, engine, boiler etc. At elevation of six
teen feet is substantial double floor and upon this
floor are the condensers, bleaching kettles steam APP
paratus chemicals and all the paraphernala requisite
complete and rapid carrying on of the extensive
BUSINESS Of the Company.
The whole Of the arrangement of the main and
other buildings is the most perfect and complete we
have ever witnessed. There is place provided for
everything, and everything in its place. And, while
has been taken to propel business with astonish
ing celebrity and regularity, enough room has been
saved for comfort. and the means taken for proper
ventilation Of the principal structure cannot be
highly praised. No similar works. either in the North
or South, can be found which will at all compare in
extent, staunchness adaptation TO rapid business,
convenience or neatness with the Southern Oil Com
pany's Mobile Works. Notwithstanding the hume
processes through which the rosn passes before
its transmutaon into refined OIL suited the wants
Of engineers, machinists, painters, etc the introduce
ton Of seam chemicals, etc. necessary to its perfect
manufacture from its first vaporizs;ion to its after
passages through the copper condensers immersed in
cold water, to its last bleaching when steam is APP
piled with power almost terrible to the uninitiated
everything is arranged purely scientific principles
with eye single to rapidity regularity and economy
and the working of the mandatory is reduced to
the competest order and system that could be dc
ysed. BY way Of illustration for the benefit Of those
not fully posted, we will cite daily occurring fact
At o'clock in the morning, on any given day. sixty
barrels Of rosin placed in the STILL and at o'clock
same day, one thousand gallons refined oil will be
deposited In the great oil receivers in the warehouse
before alluded to- And all this is done with small
trouble, labor, or operative expense. With the ex-
ception Of introducing chemicals and injecting steam
there is little work performed from the moment the
rosin is thrown into the first still till the oil is depos-
tied In the warehouse receivers except to keep up the
fires and turn the various cocks that lead from the
bleaching kettles to the stills, and finally from the
last bleaching kettle to the pipe that conveys the
pure oil to the tanks in the warehouse.
For the admirable construction, arrangement and
efficiency Of these works, the stockholders Of the
Southern Oil Company are deeply indebted to Mr..
William II. Poet, who gave his personal attention to
the matter from beginning to end The result Of his
labors. we are pleased to say, and we speak know
ingy in premises has given unaloyed satisfaction
to the stockholders and directors, large party of
whom were in Mobile on the 10th inst on which day
the factory put in full operation SO that those
interested az well Others might have fair oppor-
tunity Of witnessing its practical workings. The
writer OF this article was one Of the party and to
say that he was more than gratied would be but a
poor expression Of the pleasure he experienced which
was shared by all present. formal opening Of the
works will take place within brief period, and
when il does occur, shall take satisfaction in duly
chroncling it.
The value Of the Southern Oil Company's patents
cannot well be overestimated, when we take into
consideration the extent Of country they cover and
the demand for the oils which they produce, Their
patents give them the exclusive right to manufacture
rosn oils in the five principal pine States of the
South, viz: Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina and Florida. In these States the supply of
TIE raw material is illimtahle aud nexhaustbe and
should the whale fisheries entirely fail, and other
sources OF supply of oil be cut Off utterly the pine
forests Of the South will furnish in abundance il not
In profnse abundance the means to manufacture an
article without which the world would find it difficult
to get along at ALL The questions then arise, will
these oils answer for lubrcatiug and other purposes
as claimed in the patents and il So viii there be
sufficient demand for them to make the enterprise
profitable to the stockholders Both these ques-
tions may be answered in the Affirmative without
hesitation. If any faith is to be eposed n the volun
tary statements Of engineers and machiniss Of the
highest character and longest experience. the ma.
chnery oil manufactured from rosin by the Southern
Oh Company, is as good lubricator as lard OIL aud
many Of them syer that it is better.
Assuming this to be the case, from the high aud
animpeachable testimony have seen, we will pro
coed to the consideration of the other question in
volved-that Of demand. II the oil will answer for