Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-26
Wood Alcohol Men as Friends.

he SalQ.
Wood Alcohol Men as Friends.
eThe enactment of the law re-
verses the attitude of the wood alcohol
people. From being strenuous oppon-
ents OF free denatured alcohol. they will
become of necessity its friends, as in
its largest use lies their greatest pros
perity.
The amendment providing for the
use of methyl (wood) alcohol, or other
materials or admixtures of the same,
adds to or takes nothing away from
the bill
The amendment which provides
such denaturing to be done upon APP
plication by any regularly licensed dis
tiller, In u denaturing bonded ware
house. specially designated or set apart
TOR denaturing purposes only, and un-
der conditions to be prescribed by the
commissioner Of Internal revenue was
made at the suggestion of Commits
sloner 1erkes and was in the nature
or compromise between the PROPOSE
ton to confine the manufacture to dis
5tilleries that would be permitted to
make denatured alcohol alone and the
proposition to have central warehouses
where the denaturing should be done.
Under the wording of the act, individ-
ual ddstilleries can have their bonded
denaturing warehouses In connection
with. or separate from, the dastilleries,
or the central plant system can be re-
sorted to.
eat every distillery the government
VIII keep an agent or inspector who
will also have charge of the bonded
warehouse and there will be no ex-
pense whatever to the manufacturer
either for licensing the distillery, bond
I ing the warehouse. or paying for the
supervision Or the inspection.
so far as l am able to judge now.
we have succeeded beyond our expec-
tations. This law, giving lis tax-free
alcohol, is drawn along such liberal
lines that the manufactures will reap
benefit beyond anything they could
have hoped for, while the producers
Of the raw material, the farmers, who
will also be the consumers cf the alco-
hol for fuel, light and power. will re-
ceive full measure of benefit as leg
islation can give them, so far as can
now be seen"
Regulations to be Rushed.
1t is the purpose of Commissioner
Yerkes to have his regulations in pos
session of the public in ample time for
capital to busy itself and arrange to
have distilleries erected at favorable
points in time to use the next years
crop of potatoes, corn, beets, etc. This
will mean that the farmers of Mime
sofa, the Dakotas and other northwes-
tern states, in common with those of
other sections of the country, will, in
many cases, be figuring next year on
crops somewhat different In character
from those generally grown.
Nothing definite can be stated at
this time regarding the investment of
capital in the northwest, but in a gen.
eral way l am permitted TO say that
as much New England capital as will
be necessary for that purpose has
already been pledged for investment
in distilleries in the potato and beet
and corn country of the middle west
and northwest states. Much of the
capital is to be brought to Minnesota
and the Rakotas. Next season the
potato farmers in Anoka county and
other sections Of Minnesota, north
and west Of Minneapolis, ought to
find a ready market. .. standard prices,
for every bushel they can raise, and
this will be the condition permanent