The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-08


ing. In twenty minutes from the lighting
Of the qas n loaf could be baked, as am
informed. and have no reason to doubt
the statement, for in about eight minutes
found the oven quite hot enough Tor COOK
ing. "a, I'll.
But it is in supplying towns with light
| that the great value of this Invention mes
| Through 1t any small town can now DO
| lighted with the very best Of gas--thc COS,
OF erecting the works should be reduce
! TO one-hali-and the price to consumes
would be far below the present minimum
rate anywhere. Not only so, out-and
this Is the wonderful feature OF TINS as
covery-I will show that TINS
GAS CAN DE MADE FOR NOTHING
Each town, In supplying itself with gas,
would from the residum Of their wood,
bones. and animal matter, get large sup
plies Of such valuable materials as tar,
turpentine, phosphorus, pyroligneous acid,
liquid ammonia, and super-phosphate OF
lime /; and the sale Of these at even half
the present market rates would more IMAM
pay the whole working expenses. lhis
seems an eXtravagant assertion, but u Is
fully warranted, it the quantities gwen o.,
the several extracts are correct. heduceu
10 figures the statement Of the profits OF
making this gas, as compared with that
from coal, are positively astounding.
WHAT COULD BE SAVED By USING TIE NEW
GAS.
For example, the charge per i,ooo ieet
of coal gas in New York is $3.50 IN green
backs: and | think am correct IN stating
that even at that rate very few Of the COM
panies paw. The New Workers. use about
!. 900. 900 feet per day, to make which
onantity under the new patent would re-
auire about 400 cords OF wood, or about
one schooner load, and l60 tons OF bone
the bone being in the proportion about
one third or one-half. This bone would
cost. laid down at the works, from $50 to
s25 per ton; and the pine wood just now
costs $40 per cord wholesale. Now, sup
posing vegetable matter of one kind or an-
other can be got for 81 out of the l66 tons
required to supply carbon to the gas, we
would need 100 tons of bones at say S25,
and 40 cords Of wood at $40, to produce the
1000 900 feet wanted. At the reduced price
of 81 even-a reduction of $3.50 on the
price consumers now pay-the gross pro-
ceeds of the gas would be Sl4 900, exclu-
sive of the residum. The total working
expenses would not exceed, it is calculated,
So 500. To make the same quantity OF gas
from coal would require some $4,000 per
day of an outlay, made up as follows:
700 tons coal at 600
Wages. neutrality-suspicious.. INV
Other expenses. neutrality-suspicious.. l'ooo
$40, SOC
have made the expenses greater in this
instance, because the more laborlous ana
costly nature of the work demand it. You
can produce, am told, the same amount
of gas from wood in twelve hours, which
will need for its extraction from coal
twenty -four hours.
THE RESIDUM.
Thus, not counting the resdum in favor
OF the wood and bone gas, the cost OF Its
production would be some $4,000 per day
cheaper than coal gas. But, taking the
rcsdum into account, the figures from
this startling array The 400 cords pine
wood, it is claimed, produce 40 bushels OF
charcoal per cord, or 10000 bushels. TINS
readily sells at present for 40 cents per
hushel; but counting it half price it makes
S0,ZUU. Inc WOOu tai Si""'
to nearly 500 barrels. At half price, (S2,)
this makes $1,000. There would remain
also, as the product of the days wood,
some I 1900 gallons of tHrpentine, which, at
half price, Us cents,) would make 1900.
The 100 tons of bone would produce, at
all events, 20 tons of bone black, at say
$50 per ton, Git usually sells at $9O,) which
would make $500. There would be, also,
200 barrels of ammoniacal liquor at 81 per
barrel-still half price, equal to $500. The
&C tons Of animal matter, not bone, would
add to this 1872 barrels more, which, at 81,
would give 1928. Here is the sum total OF
the resdum:
l6 900 bushels charcoal at .S3, 200
500 barrels of tar 1T $2................. 600
1900 gallons of turpen tine at 2Jc....... 300
10 tons OF bone black At $50. .......... $500
200 barrels liquid ammonia At I...... 500
1872 barrels liquid (other animal matter) d2s