Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-21
MRS. SP|Tz HAS
GREAT INVENTION
|NP|NON sHELLER
Lack of Capital to Enable
Her to Buy Nuts in Large
Quantities at Proper Sea-
son Is Handicap.

1.-THE pinon industry might cas-
ily be made one of New Mexico
great commercial enterprises. TINS
state, Arizona and q part or COLO
RADIO. produce the only pine nut
which Is so tasty as to be in great
commercial demand"
The speaker was Fannie s. Spltz,
shelter and shipper of pinon meats
and the greatest known authority
on the pinon nut and its possiblll-
ties. Mrs. Spitz continued:
"This nut is a volunteer. 1t re-
ouires no cultivation and grows
over a vast area. It has more va
ried possibilities in its use than
any other known nut. AS 1000
its value is very high. AS a diet
for those afflicted with certain
kidney ailments, it Is without an
equal. In fruit salads, vegetable
salads, candies, cakes, dressings
for baked fowl and in thousand
other edibles, it adds a delicious
flavor and great food values. But
it is an exasperatingly difficult nut
20 shell by hand"
Mrs. Spitz is the inventor of the
only machine made for the she'll
ing of pin'ons. These machines
are power driven and each will
produce about so quarts of shelled
nuts each day. During the period
of experimenting and improving,
Mrs. Spitz has handled the ma
chimes practically without help.
Her present machines are not eX-
detrimental. The nuts are poured
into the hopper and the clean,
white, whole meats Of the nut, flow
in steady stream from the ex-
polling shute. The simplicity and
efficiency of the machine are re-
markable.
IT had hoped to interest New
Mexico business men with me In
this enterprise" added Mrs. Spitz.
VI have felt that scores of carloads
of pinons might be shelled and
shipped out of a factory here each
year, furnishing employment to
many and acting as great ad-
vertisement for New Mexico, while
returning q handsome profit. But
I have as yet failed to find any
one with necessary capital who
also has a keen vision of the pos
sibilities. For three years, work
ing without capital with which to
buy nuts in large quantities at the
proper season and operating only
one machine, ] have proven the
practicability of the machine and
the profit to he made"
Mrs. Spitz then unfolded to The
writer her plans for leasing ma
chimes in all parts of the United
States. "Until after the holidays"
she said, 81 will be busy Smelling
nuts for my customers who would
be disappointed if they failed to
get them. After that I am going
east and make arrangements for
the Immediate manufacture of n
large number of machines for leas-
ing to customers and nut dealers.
II am without the strength to
carry on the nut-shelling industry,
on the scale it deserves" was the
of Mrs. Spitz. mo one
capable to aiding has proposed to
help, so I have concluded to lease
the machines unless negotiations
still pending, should result in the
sale of my patents"
Mrs, Spitz then showed her WIS.,
itor scores of letters from dealers
in all parts of the United States
asking her upon what terms her
machines might be leased. Her
caller left her presence with an in
in his mind as to
whether or not New Mexico's bust
ness men were overlooking an i'm
mense opportunity.
The question shaped itself like
this, SHOULD not Albuquerque be
known to the world as the home
IF the shelled pinon?"