New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-23
Southern on Company.

| The Inauguration Of the Mobile works of the South.
| ern Oil Company as described in the Crescent and
various other newspapers of this city and Mobile
has aroused quite lively interest ia the enterprise
in all sections of the Southern country It is des
canted upon in many ofour exchanges and the large
benefits which will flow from it, are admitted on all
sides to be thoroughly established.
During the last four or five weeks this oil has been
thoroughly tested and the results have surpassed the
anteipatons Of the most sanguine of the supporters
OF the enterprise. Wherever it has been used no
matter on what description of machinery it has sue
ceeded admirably. 1t has been tried on locomotives
on the machinery Of steamboats, and steamships, in
toundrtes, machine shops aud in printing Offices and
has been universally pronounced the best lnbricatng
fluid now in general use. Ii nothing has il failed.
Hence, as natural consequence, its surprising ex-
cclence may be set down an ineontroyertibe fact
Among the newspapers which have noticed this
new enterprise sensiby and a7orably is that staunch
journal, the Baltimore American. From an elaborate
article in its issue of the 18th inst we make the fol
lowing extracts:
The Southern Oil Company holds from the inventor
the exclusive patent right OF manufacturing oil out OF
rosin in the five Southern States Of Alabama hissis
slppi, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Up to
the present time they had carried on the manufacture
on limited scale, and rather as an experiment than
otherwise. Being fully assured by the results that
the business could be made highly productive and
profitable and that the article they could mauufac.
ture would make and increase its market the eXteT-
sye works recently completed were resolved on. The
pine orchards of the South furnish CHEAP and mex
haustihle supplies OF the material IL is now settled
that a pure lubrtcating oil can be manufactured
from rOsin by an inexpensive process which
some contend is not only equal but superior to any
animal oil. The of the article is universal aud
the demand for it constantly increasing while the
chief sources from whence this prime necessity of
civilized lie has hitherto been obtained are Tanidfv
diminishing IN numbers and the cost of the article is
raising every year. Lard oil involves considerable
outlay The hog must be tattened at more or less
expense upon corn before he can be called upon for
his unctious contributions to the wants of opT dwell
lngs or our manufactures. while the abundance and
cheapness of rosin will doubtless allow the oil made
from 1t to be supplied to the consumer at much more
reasonable rates
Like almost every other important invention, the
manufacture Of oil from Tosn has been forced to CON
tend with many obstacles and delDys from its first in
cepton until II reached the point Of success The in
Yentor, u seems experienced the i'll fortune of too
many q ms predecessors IN the paths of ingenuity
and ruined himself IN endeayOung to get his dis.
cOYery into operation unaided, He was compellpd
to take others into the business with him who anper
to have regarded the affair rather as a subject Of
speculation than bona tidf enteIprise And now
II is claimed that the manuaCtOry Of the SOuth
ern Oil Company at Mobile is the first urenared
10 go extensively into the manufacture ana the
only one AZ which pure ubricating ell is made
out Of rostn Whether this is exactly 80 or
not, It is certain that Company have a lair field to
SAT- On and need ask no fayOrs, They have only to
la NV. the large promises they make aud produce an
aiteLe OF the kind, quality and quantity they under
lthe Y 49, at reasonable price, and gigantic bust
ness VII open before them aud their enterprise will
9e one o. d, the most important ever started at The
aoethi ne southern journals are very sangune on
sne sa9jett ana are unanimous in considering the
movement as in effect the opening Of new mine Of
| wealth. me success Of this manufacture they say
VIII greatly advance at once the value Of the nine
| the cotton and sugar lands. - eN