Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-08
INT TO WASTE AND WHICH NOW BRING FORTUNE

4, Maryland 10 grind up granite for this
| purpose, and, IL they are successful,
other plants VIII probably be erected all
| over the country.
| UNCLE SAM WORTH 1875 BILLIONS.
Many people imagine that the United
| States is at the maximum Of It's pros
| perity. The truth Is We are at the be-
ginning. We shall make more during
| the next generation out of what now
| goes TO waste, than We made genera
| tion ago out OF our staple crops. In
| deed the waste OF today makes the for
tunes OF tomorrow. IN 1870 our national
| wealth amounted to about 30 billion
| dollars, aud 80 years later II had al
| most reached the l00-blllion mark. We
! are probably worth Is billions more to-
day and the great part of the Increase
| comes from by.products once classed as
waste, Take the beef trust. It's big
dividends come from the saving OF
| every scrap in the refuse. IL the choice
| cuts of the meat alone were sold. the
| packing houses could not exist. They
| have scores of products which our fore
| fathers never thought OF from potted
| meats to ooulllons, liquid extracts aud
| drugs.
Indeed, the by-products OF these cs.
adjustments bring In millions and II
small army OF scientists are kept busy
Analysing the waste and making new
| things for man. II Is said that every
| bit OF the hog is now saved. excepting
| the sqneal and the kick and that not
an atom Of tho beef goes To waste. A
| few years ago visited a packing fac
| tory IN Buenos Ayres and saw the
blood running away In stream In
our factories In Chicago the blood Is
North 1iu "a, IL. l..
| albumen and other things. II Is sold
| TO printers tanners and sugar refiners.
and, as fertilizer, II brings a big price
per ton, In some OF the Australia and
New Zealand factories saw the bones
thrown aside. Al Chicago the bones
are first cooked to extract the fat and
gelatine. Certain kinds are saved to
make umbrella, tooth brush and knife
handles, and other things in which hard
bone is needed. The hoofs Of the cattle
are nodded into ornaments, and the
tips OF the horns are tlattened out and
eventually sold as combs and buttons
, The backs OF brushes are made OF horn
tips, and some OF the finest hoofs are
| shipped to Japan to be made into no.
\ lions which are again sold IN the United
States,
DRUGS FROM THE SLAUGHTER
HOUSES,
The packing houses are now get
| ting big money out of chemicals and
! drugs OF various kinds. They produce
| pepsin from the stomachs of pigs and
| pancreatine and other digestants as
| well. From the calves they get gray
brain matter which Is now used for
| nervous diseases. and IL especially
valuable In neurasthenia insanity and
81. Yitus' dance
| One Of the most important Of the
| chemical by-products OF the slaughter
| houses is employed IN gold mining
| II Is "A poisonous stuff. known as cyan
| ide OF potassium, which looks like
| alum. 1t comes, I think, from the
| hoofs OF certain animals and other
such refuse This stuff has 9 strong
affinity for gold and certain pro-
| portion OF It. mixed with water, Is
used TO take the gold out Of ground
| quartz. The gold goes into the liquid
| Just like salt and the fluid is then
| drawn of and the gold caught again,
| by running IL over zine shovings
The bristles of the hogs are saved,
| cattle hair Is used for camel's hair
| pencils, and also TO make shoddy. Tho
| bile goes 10 the bookblnder, and the
| stomachs Of the young calves TO the
| cheese manufacturers
1 FORTUNES IN COTTON BY-PRoD-
! UCrs.
We are now making millions out OF
| what once formed the waste of our
] cotton fields, ana we are likely to