The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
OUR MANY ENTERPRISES
We Make $5OO,OOO,OOO a Year
Out of Nothing.
TO ACCOMPLISH THIS
We Turn Sawdust Into Sugar and A.
cohoI-We Make Clothing From
Pine Needles-Derive Perfumery
From Street oHaI and a Heavenly
Azure From Old Hoofs.

u!dHuldCIuicu Out Ol UldleTldlS WUlCn
thirty years ago were thrown away as
waste today amounts to fully $780,
COO,000--a sum equal to nearly seven
times the annual production of gold
in the United States.
Sawdust was for years looked upon
as an absolute waste material, says
Moody's Magazine, and was either
dumped into a stream if flowing water
or thrown into a heap where it could
be conveniently disposed of. During
the last few years process has been
discovered which has given sawdust
value greater than that of solid lum-
Der.
BY the use of hydraulic pressure and
intense heat the particles are formed
into a solid mass capable of being
moulded into any shape and of receiv-
ing a brilliant polish. The only ma
torials used are sawdust, alum and
glue
Imitation marble can be manufac-
tured from a mixture of sawdust with
ivory waste, waterglass and glue. In
Norway acetic acid, wood naphtha, tar
and alcohol are produced on a COM
mercial scale out of sawdust.
Factories have been erected in this
country and in Europe for converting
pine needles into forest wool. This is
used for mattresses and furniture, for
manufacture in hygienic articles and
for such things as undervests and
chest protectors.
The principal use of sawdust seems
destined to be in the production OF
sugar and of alcohol. It is Practically
pure cellulose and easily conyS"tlb!s
into those products.
For many years bltuminoua cosl
operators threw away slack as waste.
Later it sold for five cents a ton. To.
day it commands at the mine Is coAs3
ton, or within FIVE cents a ton CT
the price of run up mine coal.
The increase is due to demand com
ing from makers of cement. Formerly
they bought lump coal and pulveriael
It. Finally one of them experimental
with slack and found it satisfactory
and cheaper. He is said to use lao
tons of slack daily.
Each large packing establishment
now has its long list of by-products.
The products of the gray brain matter
Of calves are employed in affections of
the nervous system, sucn as nervous
debility, nervous exhaustion, ST. Vitus'
dance, mental disorder and insanity.
The blood of the slaughtered ami
mails is CONCEALED and manufactured
into buttons and is also utilized in
the production of albumen for the use
of the calico printer the sugar
refiner, the tanner and others.
The bones are used for score of
different purposes, being manufac-
tured into knife and toothbrush han
dies, chessmen, combs, backs of
brushes, mouthpieces of pipes and
various other articles. Black hoofs
are used in the manufacture of cyan
ide Of potassium for gold extraction,
and are also ground up to make fer
tilizer for florists, grape growers and
others.
Among the other articles manufac-
tured out Of the former waste pro-
ducts of the abattoir are glue, fly
paper, sandpaper, gelatine, isinglass,
curled hair, bristles, wool felt, hair
felt. laundry soap, soap powders, giy-
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poultry food, meats foot oil and
score Of other products. The annual
value Of the byproducts of the pack
ing industry, all of which are manu-
factured out of what was considered
waste material thirty years ago, is
approximately 5000, 100000.
Prior to 1860 cottonseed was usually
hauled to remote place to rot or
dumped into stream of flowing
water. Out of this product, then
deemed a nuisance. there was manu-
factured in 1900 by-products having
value OF more than $42. 1000 900.
More than score OF products are
today manufactured out of cottonseed,
including butter, paper, fertilizer, cot
ton batting, cattle feed, soap, lard,
cottolene, crude oil and salad oils.
John d. Archbold, vice-president of
the Standard Oil company, is author
ity for the statement that for the last
ten years more than one-half of the
profits of the company have been
made out of the manufacture of Ly-
products. The company could throw
into the ocean every drop Of refined
oil as fast as it was manufactured,
and would still be able to pay hand
some dividends to its stockholders
simply through the sale of its by
products.
The choicest perfumes which are
placed upon the market are obtained
from oils and ethers extracted from
flowers, but there are many other oils
which are artiicially made out of bad
smelling elements Oil of pineapple
Is best made by the action of putrid
cheese or sugar or by distilling rancid
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