The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1907-10-17
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
DENATURED ALCOHOL

Washington, September 26.-The
attention of collectors, revenue agents
and other revenue officers is especially
called to the fact that the act of June
z, 1906, known as the denatured alcohol
law, as amended by the act of March
2, 1907, provides for the production of
alcohol for denaturation from any SUBJ
stance whatever. Regulations No. 80,
revised July Is, 1907 part ID, made
pursuant to this law sets out in detail
the manner in which industrial distil-
leries shall be constructed and operated.
In the preparation of these regula-
tions effort was made so to liberalize
the methods of dealing with the pro-
duction of industrial alcohol as to
encourage such production. Many of
the provisions of the laws relating to
the operation of distilleries at which
spirits for tax payment are produced
were suspended as applied to industrial
distilleries, and the artificial element of
cost of production resulting from rules
and regulations more or less restrictive
in their character necessary at regu-
larly established distilleries, are elimin-
ated in the case of industrial distil-
leries. The effort has been, so far as
governmental regulation and SUPER
vision are concerned, to remove every
obstacle to the placing of industrial
distilleries on the same basis as the
sawmill, the gristmill, or flour mill.
Industrial distilleries are those at
which not more than 100 proof gallons
of spirits can be produced in twenty
fo,,r sor~e, ard of Nhieh a1cshnl fcr
denaturation only can be produced.
In the production Of spirits at such
distilleries any substance whatever
may be used.
An industrial distiller can set up and
operate his plant at any point on land
owned or controlled by himself, except
upon the premises of brewery, or
within 600 feet of the premises of
rectifying establishment or vinegar
factory using the vaporizing process.
There must be filed with the collector
of the district statement describing
the distillery, the distilling apparatus,
and the distillery premises.
The distiller must give bond equal to
the tax on the spirits that can be pro-
duced at the plant in thirty days oper-
ating at its full capacity, and the penal
sum of this bond must at all times be
equal to the tax on all undenatured
spirits on hand at the distillery.
The proprietor of an industrial distil-
lery is not required to produce 80 per
cent of the spirits called for by his sur
vey. If he accounts for all the mater
ial used and all the spirits produced, he
can not be held for deficiency under his
survey. He can operate his distillery
at such times as suit his convenience,
and an officer is not put on duty at the
distillery unless in the opinion of the
collector of the district the interests of
the service demands it.
One or more persons, or an associa-
tion of persons, may set up, register,
and operate an industrial distillery-
that is to say, it may be operated by
one farmer, two farmers, or a dozen
farmers.
The operators may have all or part
of the product denatured at the distil-
leries for their own use or for local
consumption, or they may sell all or a
part Of it to central denaturing bonded
warehouses for transfer thereto for
denaturing purposes.
Alcohol before, or after, being de-
natured may be transferred from the
distillery in Tanks or tank cars.
Record of all spirit-producing mater
ial brought on the distillery premises
and used for the manufacture of spirits,
of the time the plant operates each
day, and Of all alcohol produced each
day and removed or denatured must be
kept by the operator of the distillery,
and monthly returns of the operations
of the distillery must be made to the
collector of the district.
In the application for the survey of
his distillery, the owner or operator
must name som pc rson who will be in
charge of the distillery and be respon-
sible for the same during his absence.
The government, on application made
to the proper collector of internal rev.