The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-12
PROFITS FROM TRASH
PREVENT BANKRUPTCY.
How Judicious Disposal of Waste In
Factories Affects Business.

eDce between sulNluehuS anu udhhI upt-
II is the tendency of the age to
ave in small things and the man who
= nat ayailing himself of the last
nrumb of profit in his output is COM
ling with men who have solved the
latter on the right side of the ac-
count.
the profitable disposition of a city's
carnage would have been looked upon
as the vagary of a dreamer. To-day
mis- refuse gives employment to armies
~ workers. Bones, rags, glass, iron
ond naper are sorted over and collected.
OId Tin cans are worked over for the
I'm the solder from the joints and
6naly go to the blast furnace for melt
ing into pig iron.
In Glasgow are reduction plants for
the infiammable residue, which turn out
for the city 5000 horse power in a ten
hour day, this power going for manu-
featuring.
In New York process for reducing
garbage means first, steam digestion of
The matter separating the greases from
the fertilizer elements. Nearly all the
greases are shipped abroad. where they
are made into glycerin, red oil, lard
oil. and inferior soap. The dried resi-
due is sifted through screens, where
the bone glass, iron and tin and like
matter are collected, leaving only the
fertilizer filler. This when cooled, is
bagged for shipment to the impover-
ished cotton lands Only the water
from which the grease is skinned is
left. and when this has been evaporated
TO the consistency of syrup 1T may be
mixed with the fertilizer matter to al
vantage.
Some of the high priced perfumes in
the markets are made from the oils and
others extracted from flowers, but 9TH
ers Of cheaper grade are produced from
other and even i'll smelling substances.
Fusel oil is one of the disagreeable by
products of alcohol distillation, yet it
enters into many perfume oils. Oil of
pineapple is made from the action of
putrid cheese on sugar.
In the iron and steel industry moth
ing has been so troublesome to dispose
of as the millions of tons of Stag that
collect from the blast furnaces. But
from paving blocks to bricks for build
ings, and finally to a cement mixture,
and then to use as fertilizer the Stag
piles of the blast furnaces have come
to have a value.
Germany has gone further with the
wastes of the furnaces, and has evolv-
ed process by which the gases from
the furnaces may be made to do Serv-
ice in running gas engines. In the
production of a ton of pig iron a profit
of SLIPS for this gas has been shown,
meaning for the German iron industry
an annual saving of $10.00000 a year.
From the sawdust of the mills an
artificial wood has been made by a
combination of heat and hydraulic
pressure which promises an era of ar
tificial woods. 1t is harder, devoid of
grain. susceptible to high polish and
in many ways approaches the qualities
of ebony and mahogany
From the sawdust and mill scraps of
brentwood more than 80 per cent of
the weight of the wood used has been
made into sugar. Two hundred and
twenty pounds of this wood have Yield
ed eight quarts of alcohol. Pine and
mr. sawdust are even more valuable
for alcohol, producing a greater ouan-
tity and purer quality. Sawdust also
enters largely into the making of clay
ana pottery products in the United
States
Paper from the waste woods and
waste products of wood leads ALI else
IN value of the products from lumber
residue. Once only the white woods
We're regarded as of value for white
paper but with the bleaching processes
VI tne present there is no limitation of
oo.or' trees OF the pine family, how
ever work up more economically.
From these papers paper box material
Is maze and chemical elements result
ing from the making of paper from
WOO are turned to account.
Inc py-productS Of Chicago sIaaIrh-
houses nave been mentioned more
Inah almost any other of the waste
4 ila'erlals OF the country. A listing of
ne ny products of the stock yards is
TossestIVe enough of the value of the
thrown VI ue ANIMALS that once were
glnes awsy' These are gelatine,
glues, hair for plaster. c1Irled hair ~.
uipInolstery, bristles, blood. neatsfoot
S,i, bones, horns, hoofs, SOAP stool.
sI,IS lsinglass, albumen. hides
snns' wool, sausage castings. for-tiIi1,
antI tne glands and membranes of
th1..' from which are taken nensin
'itynnus, throids and pancrea tin
uabio VI the interesting sources OF val
r1orn. ny products is the wool of com
In ne,, as taken from the sheep's baclx
sheen Ling .ls close to the ground the
arebi p dosorbs into his system consId~
laDle potash from, the soil sr,;s gu
tbrn', - excreted with other matter
,,,oe Uusn the skin and attaches 10 ar
o LII some varieties of sheer, thoso
man, with the dirt which adhere
weiaS. constitute two-thirds of the
Of az vi the wool. Even now much
yaters STUNT goes to waste in wash
wool a.. - AZ many centerS of tha
sails ano the potash and potash
or viii recovered with profit, togeth-
acids Ihe wool grease and resultant
Ius' IN France 1900 pounds 30 49,
81 =, may yield 'yolk" products valuad
for Pi.z9 ana yet cost less than 60 cents
LOT extraction. w SeNts
of u the United States five products
cifc "p p, Iat nave been adapted to sne-
prodnctsP fuses at profit. One of these
ointro is softening and is used IN
ofbar "a ana toilet compounds: an
anoth feather and betting DRESSING.
bacon,a., freed OF resinous Substances
ricata" 81. lubricant; and another lub,
cstIn,s. liner - animal fibres. IL has been
srraasa mat S3,00OO00 worth of wool
strea,, ana potash runs down the
wear IN the United States every
this borrower, 1t is asserted that if
uses ,vn,.S, We're saved. its by-product
resent Ou'o increase and II might rem
Son,o proht Of SIS, 100000 ANNUALLY.
dnstrw one; writing of the cotton in
Of coty. al the United States. has said
1890 'on seed that It was earba ee in
and na Satue food in 1880, a table food
he aS Siany Things else in 1890" II NAV
value u es Tor the present year that the
is y, ol the seed Of the cotton miami
cottor cent of the value of ali the
tho on hore; The prime product of
is - "a IS the oil, and in the oil cakes
fact pe FOUND one Of the nearly ner-
ereo,, az We foods. From the oil av-
.n,'sn go pounds TO the ton OF seed
t,in.e oiiVe OIL Is made I'm vast oman,
ha"ls salad dressings have n FOR ?
grader Soaps are made from the purer