The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-26
MILLIONS In 1T.
Litho.Carbon and Its Advent Into the
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Litho-Carbon and Its Advent Into the
Commercial World.
Everybody looks at j. X. Pardee's shoes.
Lately the attention bestowed upon them
has been somewhat embarrassing to him,
but it is no joke. As Pardee says himself.
''there's millions in IT, No ordinary shine
ornaments Mr.. Pardee's footwear. 1t is
the latest thing in the market and patent
leather is not in it" with litho-carbon.
Mr.. Pardee discovered his shoe polish in
Texas. When he passed the shoe polishing
stands on Main street yesterday the polite
attendants forgot their usual inquiry of
''Shine 'em up, sir?" and gazed in astonish-
ment at the brilliant appearance of the
mining mans well-titting shoes. While in
the corridor of The Helena Yesterday the
discoverer of the litho-carbon mine in
Texas drew up n foot and brushed the
shoe with a white handkerchief without
soiling the linen. He told one of his friends
all about his discovery and the company
he has incorporated to put the litho-
carbon on the market. Litho-carbon's
physical properties are those of an in
tensely black semi solid mass, tasteless and
odorless, resisting the action of water,
acids and alkalies, non-infammable, non
volatile and Interchangeable under any natu-
raj degree of heat or cold, and capable of
resisting a considerable degree of artificial
heat without change. 1t is a non conductor
of heat and electricity of high order. Ex-
periments have been made which show Its
uses in the commercial world to be mani
fold, and its various applications must
produce an important, IT not startling, In
f1uence or many industries.
Mr.. Pardee's company hold letters patent
covering, as a product, the processes of OK
traction, treatment and all uses of lltho-
carbon. Among the uses to which it will
be put are positive insulators, black var
nishes, japans, paints, substitute for hard
rubber and horn, gutta percha and rubber
tissue, water, acid and alkali-proof vessels
of wood-pulp: a waterproof and peculiarly
tenacious varnish for leather, producing
the effect of patent leather: water, acid and
alkali-proof bricks; water. acid and alkali-
proof pipes of iron, paper or wood-pulp, and
pavements.
Litho.carbon, always perfectly flexible,
can be rolled out to the thinness of tissue
paper, and in that condition it possesses all
the properties of gutta-percha ard rubber
product, without the offensive odor and
senaitiveness to heat and cold that belong
to the latter. In this form it can be used
in the manufacture of waterproof gar
ments, ladies' dress shields and the very
many other devices of cloth for which there
is a demand. The saturation of any kind
of cloth with a solution of litho-carbor
makes that fabric absolutely waterproof
also uncomfortable. For the manufacture
of mackintoshes, betting, hose. tarpaul;ns
etc, it possesses all the valuable qualities
of rubber, without any of the odors or de-
structible characteristics of that material
1t can also be used for lining beer watts ant
barrels and many other uses.
The Litho-Carbon company has been or
gained with a capital stock of 100000
in $1,000 shares of 800 each, and incorpo
rated under the laws Of New Jersey. Mr.
Pardee is the general superintendent of thu
company. The general office is in Nov
York city and the Jersey City Office il a
Montgomery street. Mr.. Pardce will leav'
Montana in the fall and have charge of TIL
mine, which is about ninety miles northeas
of San .Antonio, Texas. He will. however
retain his interests in his property here.