The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-14
CYANAMID PLANTS
PROJECT MAY REvOLUTroNrzE
 FERTILIZER INDUSTRY.
Nitrogen is to be Secured from the Air and First Factory. is to Be at Niagara
 Fails


 Announcement Is made that work will
 begin this month on the first of a se-
 ries of great manufacturing plants in
 the United States that will revolution
 ize the fertilizer business of the world.
 the production of lime-nitrogen are re-
 alized. and it is firmly believed they
 will be. says The Nashville Banner
 It is not a fact generally known that several wealthy Nashville men are
 largely interested in the manufacture
 of nitrogen by literally harnessing the air. yet such is the case and a visit to the handsome and extensive offices of the company in the Stahlman Building
 would soon convince one that a great deal is being done in the plans to rush the. first factory, and to follow this one with others in this country. Such Nashville business men as Frank S.
 Washburn. A. H. Robinson. Whiteford R. Cole. Isaac w. Read and others are very largely interested xn this great enterprise and great things are ex- pected os 1t.
 The American Cyanamid Company is the exclusive owner of American pat ents for the manufacture of calcium cyanamid. a nitrogenous fertilizer. whose nitrogen is derived from the at- tfIOSpncT6. lHC CBVttalf Ot LnS company is $2.500.000 of common stock. s2.00O,- 900 of per cent. preferred stock and $5oo.0oo per cent. preferred stock. The plans of the company include the erection of three plants. the first of which will be at Niagara Falls. Onta- rio. teR-acre site, having been se- cured for that purpose, and contracts made for an ultimate supply of power amounting to approximately s0,o0o a. hour horsepower per annum. Ground will be broken at Niagara Falls as soon as weather conditions will permit. which. it is anticipated. will be in few days. It Is anticipated that the work will be completed and production be- gun by the end of the year. The first plant constructed at Niagara Falls will be only for a portion Of the ultimate capacity of the plant. the purpose be-. ing to secure at the earliest practica- ble time producing plant with q trained corps of men familiar with the, manufacturing and marketing of the product. From this model plant will be drawn men and methods for man. aging and operating plants to be To- cated in other sections of the United states. The market for nitrogenous fertilizer material tributary to Mag ara Falls is said to be excellent, and the transportation charges based upon water rates via the Great Lakes, Erie Canal and the Hudson River are low Tentative offers have already been re- ceived from two of the fertilizer man. ufacturers for Ghe entire initial produc- tion of the Niagara Falls plant. The ultimate capacity planned at Niagara Falls Is 10000 tons per annum. which represents annual sales of over S2,-
 600, ,0O0 '.
 The second plant Is designed to be placed in the central part of the State of Georgia. The market immediately tributary in the numerous large ferti1- izer manufacturers using millions of dollars worth of nitrogeneous fertilizer materials makes this site one of the most desirable in the United States. The initial capacity of this plant will be 10000 tons per annum. It Is ex- pected that the ultimate capacity will be limited by the power available. The expectation is that the construction of this plant will be begun during this year as soon as 1t can be begun with out interfering with the .construction and operAtion of the Niagara Falls plant.
 That portion of the plans of the American Cyanamid Company of most interest to the people of Nashville is the location of a plant at Mussel Shoals on the Tennessee River. between the towns of Decatur and Florence, Ala. Plentiful and cheap power is the most important process. requiring high tenn perature electric furnaces. for whose operation an extraordinary amount of power is required. Next in importance are the two raw materials of coke and limestone. The cokes tributary to Mus sel Shoals are suitable In quality and low in price. The limestones are su- perior and close at hand. It is antic- ipated that sufficient power may be had here, apart from the other demands, to operate a 5O.00O to s0.000 ton per an mum cyanamid plant. The market trib- utory to Mussel Shoals is excellent, the city of Nashville alone using each year in nitrogenous fertilizing materials the of about 10000 tons of cya-- namid. The fertilizer factories in points tribHtary to Mussel Shoals. at Tupelo. Jackson. Meridian. New orleans, Mobile, Gulf port, Pensacola, Montgomery, Birming- ham, Talladega. Florence. etc.. will readily absorb the entire production of the Mussel Shoals plant.
 The plans for the manufacture of nitrogen from the air--and 80 per cent. of the weight of the air Is said to con- sIst of nitrogen-contemplate the uitf- mate production of a fertilizer to re- new worn -out land in such quantity and at such a prize as to be within the reach of every farmer of the country and the world. for that matter. It is pointed out that in America. even, with its boundless acres, there Is little new land and that most of the farming land is worn and needs either rest or The three great plant foods which cause crops to grow the world over are stated to be nitrogen, and potash. The supply of the two latter is said to be necessarily restricted in area and place of produc-- tion. and 1t is known that the greatest beds of phosphat, in fact. are to the west and south of Nashville Under. the plan to make nitrogen from the air. however. and combine it,with limestone in such a manner as to pro- duce the fertilizer fine-nitroken. call cium nitrogen or cyanamid. 1t is de- i clared that g. world-food problem for the future has been solved, and that: me-nitrogen will prove even moro use. lul than the celebrated Chilian nitro zen, which is limited in. supply hard { to get and very costly. ~:
 Great works are in course of erec- ton in Europe in various countries. The Italian works. belonging to the subsidiary company formed by the Sie- mems -Halske interests, are to. be in- creased four fold. They have from the first been unable to supply the demand