The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-28
OR MANY ENTERPRISES
We Make $5OO,OOO,OOO a Year
Out of Nothing.
TO ACCOMPLISH THIS
We Turn Sawdust Into Sugar and Al.
eohol-We Make Clothing From,
Pine Needles-Derive Perfumery
From Street OHa and a Heavenly
Azure From Old Hoofs.

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Azure From Old Hoofs.
The value of products annually
manufactured out of materials which
thirty years ago were thrown away as
waste today amounts to fully $780,
000,000-a sum equal to nearly seven
times the annual production of gold
in the United States.
Sawdust was for years looked upon
rs an absolute waste material says
Moody's Magazine, and was either
dumped into a stream If flowing water
or thrown into heap where 1t could
be conveniently disposed of. During
the last few years process has been
discovered which has given sawdust a
value greater than that of solid lum-
ber
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 brilliant polish. The only ma
terials 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
aud alcohol are produced on a COM
Nercial 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 hygenic 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. 1t is practically
pure cellulose and easily convertible
into those products.
For many years bituminous coal
operators threw away slack as waste.
Later it sold for five cents ton. To-
day it commands at the mine 70 cents
a ton, or within five cents a ton OF
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 pulverized
it. Finally one of them experimental
with slack and found it satisfactory
and cheaper. He Is said to use l4U
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
tho nervous system, such 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
tho production of albumen for the use
OF the calico printer, the sugar
reduer, the tanner and others.
The bones are used for a score of
different purposes, being manufac-
tnred 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
tiiizer for florists, grape growers and
others.
Among the other articles manufac-
tured out of the former waste pro-
duets OF the abattoir are glue fly
paper, sandpaper, gelatine, isinglass,
cIrled hair, bristles, wool felt, hair
felt, laundry soap, soap powders, giy-
oerine, ammonia, bone meal pepsin,
poultry food, meats foot oil and a
score of other products. The annual
value Of the by-products of the pack
ing industry. all of which are manu-
featured out of what was considered
u waste material thirty years ago, is
approximately $20O,O00,00O.
Prior to 1860 cottonseed was usually
hauled to a remote place to rot or
dumped into stream of flowing
water, Out of this product then
deemed nuisance. there was manu-
factured in 1900 by-products having a
value of more than $4,000, 900.
More than a score of products are
today manufactured out of cottonseed,
including butter, paper, fertilizer, cot
ton batting, cattle feed, soap, lard,
oottolene, crude oil and salad oils.
John ID. Archbold, 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 by
products. The company could throw
into the ocean every drop of refined
oil as fast as 1t 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 hut there are many Other oils