The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28
dfE OIL and IT'S USES.
VALUABLE IN sInDICINE AND IN
MANUFACTURING.
nsnarkabie Remedial and Ailments
ary valse Of the Pare Article
Great Quantities Are Consussed
n soaps and other Products.

i. soaps sna otAer Products.
No,ive oil suggests to the lay mind little
NSsides salad; and statistics regarding the
amount OF olive oil imported Into the
United States annually would call up VS.
"a OF Indigestion appalling even In this
6vrpeptic nation. Then, too. the facts
about tho adulteration Of olive oil are cal
culated to harrow the feelings Of q people
opposed, on general principles. to being
cbeafed by any one whose profits are not
intended for American use. National pride
helps an American to endure being cheated
~ a ellow-countryman; but to he done
~ foreigner Is gall and bitterness In
the matter OF adulterated olive oil. how
dyer, Americans connive at their own de-
struction. They cast their bread upon
the waters in the shape OF cotton seed oil
exported to France and Italy; and. after
many days, It comes back to them In bot
ties labeled pure olive OIL They pay
for pure olive oil plus the duty OF so cents
1 gallon. and then eat their salad in con-
tent
By far the largest share Of our olive OIL
h imported from France. The best and
the worst comes from italy. The olives
Of Lucca-in fact, of the whole Tuscan
district-are famous for their flavor and
make the most delicious olive oil on the
market; but the Italians haven't the prac-
teal business ability Of the French, and
have never made their oil industry COM
pete with that of France. The market
f6r French oil is so great that the olive
crop Of France is always Inadequate to
supply the demand, ana every year many
French manufacturers send into ITALY. buy
tjp italian oil. Clarity ii. and sell ii under
their own labels. French oil of
the best quality is thought by
italian oil, for the very reason which
makes Il more attractive In appearance.
II IA more Thoroughly clarified. and the
process improves its appearances hut re-
moves much OF the albumen which is the
chief source of value and flavor in olive
In earlier days the olives were gathered
nv shaking the trees: hut that practice
has been abandoned. becauseIt was proved
that the br,iisine OF the fruit harmed tha
favor az the oil. Now the olive pickers
climb into the trees ana pick each olive
separately. LAYING IL carefully in basket.
The, fruit il crushed In presses much like
our cider presses. and the oil is allowed
TO stand until sediment forms. Then II
Is poured Off into another cash and al
lowed to stand once more After n a. fairly
clear II ia strained through cotton wool ~
through n mixture ~ charcoal ana sard
ana IL then ready for adulteration and
hacking.
Fully three fourths Of the olive oil on
the market Is more or less aduIterated
usually with cotton seed oil. hnt the
quality OF the olive oil senerallv snId
throurho,,t the Tinted states has ,,,-
proved greatly within recent wears Ther.
was a time when foreign mannfacturers
expressed in their own vernac,,lar the
theory that any old olive OIL would 90 In
America; but the American palafe has
been educated at considerable eynensa
and today the United States is the hest
market in the world for the better grades
of olive oil. The oil IL shipped in bottles
or in bulk. Some American desiers
among them many of our our most truat.
worthy firms. prefer to buv of in hnI,<
test II and nut it M under their own
labelss guaranteeing It's purity. Other
dealers buy It In bulk for other reasons.
They buy good OIL adulterate IL to suit
their wishes, and then bottle II under a
fictitious foreign label. It is guaranteed
pure by some firm that does not exist.
The most trustworthy foreign makers
usually put up various grades OF oil. and
their first quality grade Is to be trusted.
Only q comparatively small percentage
OF the olive oil imported by this country
is used for culinary purposes. Large
quantities OF the purest brands are en-
pfoyed for medicinal use, the remarkable
remedial and alimsntary value of the purc
oil being a well established fact in utedj-
cine. In the treatment Of gall stones II
has been found an efficacious agent: ana
in other diseases, tuberculosis, .scrofula.
anaemia, ETC., its curative qualities are
of great value
Hundreds of gallons OF olive oil are a1so
imported annually for use in the prepara-
ton OF soaps, pomades and lotions OF all
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