The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-16
4 VIEW INDUSTRY OPENED.
The Manufacture Of LampblaCk from
Resin DTOSS.

A Pointer for Turpentine Operators.
The Demand for Lampblaek and the
cost of its Produetion-Mr. O. B.
yvarrand Thinks Turpentine Men
could Make More Money by Turning
+ba Inferior Grades Of Resin into
1ampblack than by suspending OPP
erations.
The manufacture of lamp-blacz from
,osiu dross has aroused considerable in
+orest among turpentine operators. The
industry has wide field There is large
amount rof the rev material produced
which is now utterly wasted, and there is
q large demand for lampblack at fair
prices.
A still producing annually, 1900 barrels
of rosin. and 800 barrels of spirits of tur-
nontine. or $500 barrels in all, produces
about 20 per cent. in refuse dross or equal
TO 500 barrels of 500 pounds each, $50, 900
mounds of dross or 1875 tons. AS dross,
however, has a lot of wood, pine straw,
dirt. etc, it would not be safe to count on
anoutput of more than 30 per cent. of this
weight in merchantable lampblack or 81
tons year.
Mr.. c. B. Warrand, who has given the
subject a good deal of close attention and
study. says
Il can place 10000 pounds of lampblack
to-day at u cents per pomnd f. o. b., or
$50 per ton. so that each still could easily
produce over s., 900 oflampblack.'
BIG WASTE OF MATERIAL.
There are, Mr.. Warrand says, prob
ably 600 stills in Georgia; so that it would
be quite sure to assume that Georgia
wastes half a million dollars annually
This is in dross alone. But there is auch
inferior rosin shipped, he estimates, that
sells now at 35 cents per barrel
of 200 pounds, or 81 per ton. The
freight, cost of barrels and other
expenses will consume 81 out of the
s. received, netting to the operator only
50 per ton. One ton of rosin will yield 700
to 500 pounds of lampblack, and at ~
cents per pound it would bring from $40
$l2 per ton, instead of So, or from 300 to
400 per cent. over present prices. This
would be direct profit to the individual
manufacturer. Indirectly the whole trade
would be benefited, as every barrel
turned into lampblack would decrease the
receipts and hence increase the price on
rosin marketed,
THE DEMAND FOR LAMPBLAeK.
Two houses in New York alone, Mr..
Warrand says, are ready to handle 10000
tons of lampblacS each. One house in
Glasgow with a branch in Hamburg is
prepared to handle as much more. Chi
cagO, Cincinnati and other western manu-
featuring centers would probably con-
sumo as much as New York. So there is
not much probability of any overproduc-
ton in the near future, while the demand
is steady one
Printers ink is made on the basis of
sixteen parts of lampblack, one part of
linseed oil and one partof soap. The issue
OF the Sunday papers in New York con-
sumes every Saturday night fifteen tons
of printers ink. Shoeblacking is made
from lampblack, molasses and oil of Wit
rol. Every ton of fertilizer placed on the
market has an admixture of fifty pounds
OF lampblack to give the fertilizer the de-
sired color. This is especially the case
with Florida phosphates, which are so
bright that superphosphate from the
same would not be pleasing to the eye
WlthouJ IampDlack, which is in itself an
excellent fertilizer worth much more
than phOsphates or cotton seed meal.
BETTER THAN SHUTTING DOWN.
The turpentine operators, Mr.. Warrand
says, have got good thing in the lamp
black which can be easily produced and
easily sold, and it would certainly be
"l7SA' HO UllhhSi 4OI UlSLu w curbtu JIlelF
shipments by turning the inferior grades
OF rosin into profitable lampbIack than to
cease operations. Both will have the same
effect, with the difference that one way
would be highly profitable, while stop
page means total loss of income with
mules to feed and labor left to shift for
itself
very crude lampblack house, Mr..
Warrand says, can be put up as low as
fifty dollars. A very perfect one, with
patent furnace yielding, twice as much
Iampblack from the same material, will
cost less that $500.