| Show omo two lio iio 11 d C 11 t EDITOR desert DESERET T NEWS dr shin answer to your 1 inquiries nin in the council chamber during t the late a fe session of the legislative assembly of utah on the subject of successfully manufacturing oil in utah from the different plants from which the castor olive and sweet ons ous oils are extracted I 1 will observe that years ago in company with mr elijah duj ah thomas I 1 raised in this thia county the palma Chrls christi tl or castor OR oil b bean 1 le and successfully cess fully extracted in this city as d clear elear and as pure an article of castor oil as was ever produced in any country and we feel assured that our process of clarifying castor oil unknown in our opinion to any one except ourselves will enable e us to continue to compete as with any manufacturers in the world from IT our experience we feel satisfied that the castor bean cannot be remuneratively grown irl in so high a latitude as this but can successfully be raised in the southern counties of utah where the members of the dixie oil company are now p proposing ro posing to plant several acres and are getting up presses s ses and other fixtures in thia this city to manufacture pire f castor oil at st SL george this corm corn pany expect to be abe able to begin pressing oil as early as july uth and with what beans beaus they ca can 1 procure from their own plan pian planting ung anticipate b being e 1 ng able to produce as much ou oil as is at present consumed in this territory and even more and at figures considerably less than the present importers can offer it the company will put up their oil on in tin cans and will warrant it free of any rancid taste so long as it is kept closed from air and not openly ex exposed rosed to light and heat sweet weeton oil on is extracted from the seed of the benee plant orient ale als and is not olive oil as many suppose pose it Is said sala ad tobe to be a native of f the east fast in indies suz suj suppose es and tind was introduced into the southern southern states by negroes from africa the seed is of a cream color is about the size of flax seed and is very rich in oil the negroes in tb south often boll it with ineat meat also with vegetables it is good to eat raw and the leaves of the plant are used medicinally it is very productive and can be grown on any warm arm sandy soil where cotton will pay to cull cuil cultivate vate the oil company intend so soon as na enough seed can be P procured ro c w ed to plant one acre or two to place in m market r k et chii this useful and highly prized oil which is scarcely surpassed for salads ac by oil and for lubricating small bearings in is not equalled equal led by castor OIL oll the olea or olive from which olive oil is extracted tr is cultivated in but few localities in the united states arwas first brought to california by the jesuits about years ago has been introduced trod into the states of florida alabama Lou lousiana slana geo georgia a and south carolina but I 1 1 am not awane aware 0 olits its being much grown except for family use the fruit is picketed led and sometimes press pressed ed to obtain salad saiad sal sai adoll oil the olive ivo treo tree begins to beay bear at the age of from eight to twelve years and will annually ally aily produce from seven to twenty pounds of oil to the tree it grows from 15 to 20 feet feyt high I 1 hope to see it brownin grown nin in washington and ana kane counties and pure oil made from the olives I 1 will add as I 1 a am m writing u upon n southern products that from th the e cotton s seed eto ego 1 a valuable oil used for lights can be obtained more anon respectfully yours S 31 BLAIR G S L ci city ty jan 2 1807 we take pleasure in giving space to the above letter and invite our dixie friends to its pern the oil manufactured by blair and thomas in this city several years a ago ngo 0 O took the first premium gium at our state fair and we are pleased to see those brethren determined to establish the business in dixie 11 where the castor bean we are satisfied will produce a remunerative crop it will add another and a very important link to lothe the cham of manufactures absolutely feces chary ha to enable us to become a self sustaining people castor oil Is rapidly becoming more popular for lubricating purposes and the uses to which it is now applied have become so very numerous besides alts bits medicinal qualities thau thai they are not easily enumerated we are assured that as good if not a sweeter and aad better article of oil put up in tin cans s can be furnished famished our citizens for less money by the company than can ba be imported if it so go and we have good reasons to believe it this alone will annually save many thousands of dollars to our citizens that are now paid in money to the merchants in the east we trust the company will find favor with the people and that they will raise beans bean in such quantities that the demand for oil in utah may be supplied the company have already tent ploughs hs hoes laborers octo plant several acres with castor beans and are now getting up their presses ac here we trust our druggists and merchants will buy their oil of this firm and encourage so useful an success to the dixie oil company v |
