Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-03-05
DENATURED ALCOHOL.
farmers May Make II Future Fuel OF
the West,

BY Fred w. Lewis. Secretary Washington Stat.
| Grange, Tumwater Wash.
Two years ago the Grange, assist.
ed by some other organizations, went
to work to try and pass a law that
would allow alcohol to be manufac-
tured and used for light and fuel
without having to pay the prohibit
ii" revenue tax, that had been re-
quired by the government, so as to
| free the people of the country from
the tyranny Of the Standard Oil Co.,
which has gradually raised the price
OF fuel oil from low price to an
amount that Is paying the monopoly
extremely large dividends, thereby
| levying an unreasonable tax on the
consumer of the products of petro-
leum.
| After a long and hard fight in
congress in which the Standard Oil
Company did their best to prevent
| the passage Of the bill, we conquered
and now farmer, or several of them
may erect a still, and make alcohol
/ in any quantities, the same to be de-
| natured, or poisoned, by officers ap-
pointed by the government, and may
then be used or sold to any one un-
der a permit which may be obtained
, from the government.
1t Is now our duty to get the ap-
pliances for the use of the product
into general use, so that there will
be a demand for the alcohol, SO that
there will be distilleries installed all
over the west, SO as to use the waste
products of our farms to make fuel
for our engines, stoves, both heating
and cooking, and to give us one of
the best lights that you ever saw.
/ wish that it were possible for me
to show the lamp with it's beautiful
light, so that you could realize the
value of 1t as light producing fuel.
Wherever l have demonstrated the
light, it has met with an enthusias-
tic reception and it is only a ques-
tion Of letting people see the value
of de-natured alcohol, to insure a
demand that will fill our land with
dIstilleries, making our own fuel out
of the small potatoes, sprouted |
wheat, small, and imperfect apples,
and fruit of other varieties, and in |
fact, anything that is composed of
sugar or starch.
A corn-field, with it's stalks filled |
with sweetness, will make large |
quantities of alcohol and a small |
amount of land will raise enough |
fuel to keep our homes we'll heated
and lighted for the year.
Another good quality of this al
cohol is that it is perfectly clean and
healthful. There is no dust, smoke,
SCOT, or gas, developed in the burn
ing of it for either light or heat,
and it does not vitiate the air in the |,
20;
and does not have to use the oxygen
out of the air in the room, SO much
as any other fuel.
There is no wick-trimming to be
done, as the wick is never on fire,
and as far as smoke is concerned,
the lamp chimneys will never need
any washing, so the lamps are much
easier to take care of. l.
You can turn it off until there Is
very small light, and so makes per-
feet night lamp, as there is no gas,
as there is from a kerosene lamp, |,
to make the bed room a hot-bed of
disease.
There is another great boon to the ,
in the alcohol flat-iron,
which will burn only about a cents
worth of fuel, rather than ten or fif- 7
cen cents worth as when you have :
o use a stove of any sort. You can :,
axe this flatiron into any room of .
he house, out onto the porch, out r
Inder a shade tree, or anywhere else y,
hat you want to, as you have no :,
string attached to you as in the ),
lectric iron, and you do not have to :,
ravel back and forth between the =
roning board and the stove, as you
ave always had to do, nor do you ,
ave to stand near a hot stove while
ou are doing your ironing.
Write to me and / will tell you r
ow you may procure these splendid
nprovem as the Grange is an
ious to get people to know of the n
dvantages to be derived from the Ia
ltroduction of denatured alcohol =.