The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-02
Yankee Business Ingenuity
By Frederic J. HdSkin ==-

Ill the ingenuity
yci az on WI is manifested in the form
frssss .,, .rnsts. The little fellows are
3, o. business. despite the en-
b doug oT the millionaire corpora
pihIn,gansij;v ingenuity is every
D. in some new business, some
hpai"sd or some new saving by
De.oO sln wealth of the nation is IN
rlsd-
leans buy and throw away 80
Sn Ss,',is nairs of shoes each year. In
% majority of instances only
y gies' a. these are worn out. What
sls' of + the uppers7 Junk dealers
is;;e y, V.,ometimes, but il is only with"
" ih%, u, few months that prepara-
b " bcen made on a large scale
-, the leather thrown away IN
s ,.t shoes. 4 plant IN New York
r5.sses the old footwear, grlnds 1T
~ Isdcr mixes il with forty per
t S; pS;s rubber. and rolls II under
NJ ln nressure into sheets of reno
,g,s,ber which may be turned into
,llmooks leather ornaments, or any
'sl',S.u M,S.ussnd leather novelties on the
rsa
a, s'qumbo country of Missis-
q. road question is one of the
~ nroblems the planter has TO
riA Better roads are absolutely
',yr but how arc they 10 be madeg
mi any rock or stone or gravel
4. many miles, either above or bo-
=. cTound-nothing but clay and
A, The United States government
a Ken conducting some successful e'i-
.-,n,s in that section which may
I. ,Ls nrohlem. The road is covered
, rordwood of kind fl for burn
4, This wood is overlaid with few
~. al the clay which is To be had
,szndauco upon all sides. Little
!, ara left through the clay, and then
4 f5el is set on fire. When 1t has
~ ont, the clay has hardened into
4 meat brick, ms wide as the road
:, long as NAV be. This brick is
4 hd. but II will wear off slowly
. viii not get muddy. A mile of
! rad can be built for about Sl100.
the middle West where the rural
lone has reached its highest de-
.pusnt, and where the telephone
suies have multiplied as the sands
n. sea, the problem of distributing
4 uu rata fee for long distance mes
=, among the several companies be-
y most complex. Last year 81 tele~
Z, tlsaring house was organized in
n. and il proved to be such sue
= hat it has been copied in two or
,s ueighboring states. The clearing
-s taxes charge of the money paid
. IN ong.distanco messages going
la ihs lines of more than one COM
~ and makes the settlements. This
|ipe house also issues mileage
az which are receivable by eny
|riOne company in the State for
distance messages. the scheme be-
srzctly the same as that of inter
Essablc mileage books on railroads.
Of telephone calls to mind
rgeniOus story told by 4 telephone
iior who went into n neighborhood
souScwives To its use. When all
D arguments failed he told what
es the wonderful talking wire was
1arg mothers. cit is by all odds
cost Indispensable household arti.
Ter invented, said the versatile
Il. ss he warmed to his subject. "It
II dspenses with the need of
for the baby, When the farmer s
wants 10 run over the waS 10 gos-
Elth her neighbor, she puts the baby
sep, drops the receiver into the
and tells Central about it.
Central hears the baby cry she
i'ly. rings up the mother, who
E.,s home TO looS after her little
J. 1 think the reader will agree
my agent who can put mp a line
rument like that is wasting his
zines by remaining in the telc-
: business. He ought TO ioin
9 with Lawson in boosting COP
or 20 TO the assistance of Harri-
n juggling railway stocks.
a1S growers of Southern California
~ PeiPtAeu DN TWO great pro
Near shortage and box shortage
s been most difficult TO get the
shooss of which orange boxes
Ads, the wood getting scarccr and
=, soNly all the time. Now comes :
n,nlsn with an idea for perman
Saet. He is making box of pull
Z requires but one.fourth as mucl
and the wood may be supplied
u lorm Of chips, or even sawdust
.ssaiIy' The pulp box is lighter
p 'Vo pounds Of weight in a car
ol iruit, 1T is cheaper. and III
promises the supply will be equa
= demand.
line with this idea the Texal
IA - concerns are introducing plant.
.Anic every particle of the pine
shlcn they consume, The lum
Inc INST product, then the vast,
= ile1 INTO pitch and its other dis
G Then tho exhausted pulp i
! .alo Pasteboard for paper boxes
J particle of sawdust goes to waste
tss a chip. BY this development
,alll becomes not only a saw-mill