60 OLIVE OIL AND ITS SUBSTITUTES. 



OAKLAND, (-AI.., May (>, 1903. 



Your favor under date of April 14, 1903, at hand and contents noted. Beg to say 

 in reply that I am much surprised to learn result of your analysis of my "Ramona" 

 brand of olive oil, as when I adopted this brand for my retail trade I had the oil 

 thoroughly analyzed, with result, showing freedom from any adulterants. Ipresumed 

 that the same brand of oil from the same producers and importers would run same 

 in quality and purity, but it seems, as you remark in your favor referred to before, 

 that "manufacturers vary in the goods they turn out." It must }>e so in this ease, 

 and I shall certainly change the oil and obtain a />nrt: oil. 



Permit me t<> say that 1 am not a wholesaler, simply bottling oil for my />/</// 

 business. It seems, on my part, to be simply a case of too much trust imposed in 

 manufacturers' agents. 



I would remark that parties to whom I have submitted a sample of oil, now bottled 

 under brand mentioned, for analysis, report adulteration of about 5 per cent. How- 

 ever, that would suffice to necessitate its being discarded as a pure article. 

 1 beg to remain, yours, truly, 



\V. P. WUEKI.KK. 



The Department of State, upon the request of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, instructed the United States consul at Bordeaux to 

 investigate the existence of the firms named on the labels reproduced 

 01 1 1 Mates I and II as manufacturers of olive oil at that port. The follow- 

 ino excerpts are made from the report rendered by the consul: 



1. No such firms as Tisserand & Fils, or Freres & Du Peaux, or Jules Chambon & 

 Cieare known in this consulate or appear on the books thereof during the year 1903. 



2. No such firms are to be found in the last directory of the city of Bordeaux. 

 Whether there are such linns in Bordeaux can be conclusively determined only 



by an examination of the registry books, for which a fee of 35 centimes (7 cents) per 

 volume is charged for each volume included in the search. 



It is well-nigh impossible that there should be such all rm as " Freres \- Du Peaux." 

 It might be " Dupeaux Freres" or "Dupeaux & Freres." 



From all I can gather I think there is somewhere in Bordeaux a tirm which some- 

 times calls itself ' Jules Chambon & Cie," but where it is, who compose it, or what 

 i.- its business the most searching inquiry has failed to reveal. Of the other two 

 firms named not even a trace or suspicion can be found. 

 I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



ALBION W. TOITR< ; ' 

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