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aOn being notified that this oil contained peanut oil, Cobb, Bates & Yerxa replied, "We wish 

 to !-ay to you that we buy the Dupont oil to be not only pure olive oil but the best to be had." A 

 second sample of a different shipment, secured by our representative from Cobb. Bates A: Yerxa 

 without their knowledge, was found to be pure. For analysis of pure sample. No. 7049, see page .'>.".. 



b A letter addressed to Giacomo Luigi, New Orleans, La., was returned unopened. 



cSee correspondence given below. 



The following letters were received in regard to the two brands of 

 California oil found to be adulterated. The second letter needs no 

 comment, but the first brings out ;i very important fact, namely, the 

 use or misuse of labels of well-known brands to cover gross adultera- 

 tions. 



MOXTECITO, CAL., ^fij7, 1903. 



Yours of 14th ultimo, with analysis of " Kl Montecito Manufacturing Comjiany's 

 Olive Oil," at hand. 



In reply, I beg to state that the above company was organized in 1893 to make a 

 />////// j.iire olive oil, and it never put out or sold a drop of any but pure olive oil. 



The making of oil was discontinued in 1896 and the hvst of the stock on hand was 

 Bold in August, 1X99, to Haas Brothers, of San Francisco, some 1,4()(> hot ties. The 

 machinery was sold last year, and the tine stone hmldinr costing nearly $7,000 is for 

 sale. Pare, olive oil could not be sold in competition with adulterated spurious oils, 

 and as the parties interested in this company would not resort to such methods, the 

 company simply went out of business. The company never sold any oil t" H.\\ land 

 &Co., of Oakland. 



Respectfully, yonre, l-'.i. MONTKCITO MV, 



Ki\vi.\ H.SAWYKK 



