Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-11-20
OIL PLANT WANTS
TOLOCATE IN
BOGALUSA
Gustave Mahlck of The E.s-
sentiaI Oil Specialties Co.
Here to Close Contract
for $500, 600 Company.


day night, it was stated that Bog&-
lusa had an opportunity of securing
large industry in the very near flu
ture, providing the owners of the
company could get the moral support
of the business men and property
owners and that labor could be Sc
cured and good living conditions pro-
vided for the workers.
This meeting was for the purpose
of hearing and considering the propo-
sition of Gustave Mahlck, general
manager of The Essential Oil Spe-
cialties Company of Philadelphia,
Gathered at the banquet tables were
more than two hundred and fifty Of
the leading business men and citi-
zens of Bogalusa. Chairman Cowgirl
introduced Mr.. Mahlck, who in max
ing the headline talk of the evening,
said in part:
Ufito those who talk and talk this
proverb may appeal: The steam that
blows the whistle will never turn the
wheel But, gentlemen, must talk
to you and explain my proposition.
My company, which is subsidiary of
the Rockefeller interests, has sent me
to the South to find a location for
lf-million-dollar plant for the ex-
traction of essential oils from yellow
pine. First, I want to explain to you
what are essential oils and their uses.
From pine stumps, tops, and roots we
extract turpentine, pine oil, rosin oil
and rosin, from the turpentine and
pine oil we manufacture artificial
lilac oil, which is used extensively by
soap manufacturers and perfumers.
Our company has been manufacture
ing this oil for the past five years,
supplying America, England, Canada
Australia and Japan, and lately also
Italy and Sweden. This business
| was formerly taken care of entirely
by Germany. We also intend to
manufacture pure terpin hydrate
which is used extensively in medi-
cinal preparations, particularly fol
throat affections. The demand fol-
this product is ever increasing anC
owing to lack of raw material Oul
company has not been able to fill
orders. But with the location of oul
plant in the heart Of the raw material
we will take up the production OF
terpin hydrate on large scale.
eve are also manufacturing rea
camphor of very high quality, fol
which we are obtaining at present
price of $4.25 per pound against
$3.50 for ordinary Japanes camphor
The United States imports 100000
pounds of camphor annually, Of
which 4,166, 900 pounds alone are
used each year in the celluloid in
dustry. All camphor formerly came
from the Island of Formosa, which
is controlled by Japan. We are now
making a higher grade of camphol
from pine stumDs and are shipping II
to Japan, where it commands high
er price than the native product
An enterprise of this kind would
eventually draw to Bogalusa Other
| industries, such as manufacturers OF
toilet articles, movie films and soap
toy factories and advertising novel
ties, which consume celluloid in large
quantities, and celluloid is made from
camphor.
81 have visited some of the largest
sawmills in Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Ny
first idea was to link eight or more
of the larger sawmills together b!
placing an extraction plant at eaci
of them and erecting central re
filming plant for the handling of thu
raw oils so produced, but since see
ing the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany and Bogalusa, am Of the opin
ion that my first plan can be aban
doned, as the Great Southern Lum
Der Company, with its enormous ca
pacity and facilities, could easily sup
DIV the two to three hundred cord
of woods to be used daily.
"our plant would employ at leas
| 200 men, and want this representa-
tive body of men to pledge ther
moral support and assure me Of GOO
living conditions for the workmen.
After hearing Mr.. Mahlck MI
Cowgirl called upon j. B. Lindsey
: ]. A. Spekehhier, A. N. Dobbs, Jes
Johnson, B. L. Talley, Judge c. Eli
| OFT, Judge P. B. Carter and other