New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-28
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sons crescent Circulation In the Bay quite exten.
aivel returned fora few hours to Mobile, The town
was aWfully hot and uncomfortable; and this rel.
GREETED for the extra reason that foiled my design
Of taking general inspection Of the city, inside and
out, with the view Of ottng down such features as
might be Of interest to the Grescents stayathome
friends in New Orleans,
| As it vas however, Isueeeeded in company with
party of Others in paying visit to the factory Of
the Southern Oil Company which has just been COM
pleted and is beginning to get to work. The novelty
Of the business in these parasitic manufacture Of oil
from roainand the size beauty and stylish finish Of
the faetory-haye made the enterprise decided OBJ.
ject Of interest with the people of Mobile as wea
one of the prettiest and most striking of the arch
tectural objects which arrest the strangers eye in
steaming up to the city.
The factory fronts the Bay IN the lower end of the
city, and ii approached from the water by broad
wharf exclusively its own The main building is a
large square structure of the height Of three stories
though inside there is particular division into stor
les, It is an immense frame, covered with sheet
iron, painted dark brown, with Bridgewater paint
and the paint oil made there; with slat windows,
ornamented cornices, and three towering chimneys
with ornamented tops Inside, it is very roomy, and
as light and airy as bird-cage, whilst the apparatus
for making the oil is arranged with taste and an
economy Of space and Of manual labor which at once
engages the attention of the most inexperienced
visitor.
There are on the ground four huge iron stills, or
retorts, encased in the most massive brckwork, in
which the rosn undergoes the process of melting and
evaporatng. Level with the tops of these stills is
floor, upon which the remainder Of the manufacture
is done. From each still huge iron swans neck con-
veys the yaporized rosinoF rather OIL the adhesive
material remaining in the stills and draining out be-
/ low in the shape Of peterborough a tank of water
by which the vapor is condensed. The oil then passes
through pipe into large copper-lined cauldron or
| purifier, with steam pipe coled in the bottom for
the purpose Of boiling it. Chemicals are here intro
duced and the OIL passing from still to purifier and
from purifier to still, in good time reaches the final
reservoir, whence it is TAKEN as beautiful and pure
an oil for painting and machinery use as is known to
commerce.
The most admirable feature of the apparatus, is its
laborsaying feature, A steam engine is kept going,
for the double purpose Of pumping water into the
condensing tank and hoisting the rosin to the floor
which tops the stills. The rosin is broken up and
poured into the still through hole in the top The
hole is sealed up the fire started underneath and
then the rosn fuls its mission without further aid
of human hands, In the still it separates into its
| three component parts-oil, pitch and naphtha-
each of which takes its way without interference from
the others. The oil ascends in vapor, Gas previously
descrihed) is condensed in the tanks, boiled in the
purifier, and upon becoming perfect, takes its way to
the reservoirs in adjoining building, where it is
drawn into barrels and headed up for expectation.
Besides the oil, the pitch and naphtha are market
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clean shirt in a piece Of brown paper, Tbey came
down for the express purpose Of ptcbing in and
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leanan nothing to learn to sneak Of was noIitelv
invited to assist but nv native basbfnness restrained
mel felt unable to face 50 much new beontr and