Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-17
Movement Seeking Utilization Of.
Vast Deposits to be Taken
Up Again.
AN ENTERPR SING 20 s'TMAN.
Washington Has a Letter Carrier Who
q Owns an gAotomobil csand Runs
tisi lit With. Profit 81
.l.s:necinl carres p . 4.

west which was designed to bring
about the reclamation Of the swa1rlp
lands OF the country SO as to- make
them available for agricultural pur-
poses. The movement has made some
Roadway but up to the present time
Congress has not authorized thu work
which will eventually add many mil
lions of acres to the arabic area Of
the United States. .sfi III
On the other hand the technologic
bTaneh ri tbs geologic Survey has beer
lands. The result has convinced the,
scientists that millions Of dollars
worth OF fuel only await development
and that many of these swalnps and
boys abound In peat which at three
ollars ia ton aggregates in value value,
nearly forty-eight billion dollars.
The states containing the greatest
amount of peat are the eastern
Dakotas, Minnesota, Michigan, north
ern Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, New ~ orlt,:
the New England states. New Jersey,
portions of Virginia. North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Experiments have demonstrated that
peat can be converted into gas for
heat and power plants and it is be-!
alieved that such plants be estah-
|Slished IN the peat boys near cities
and towns and electricity or gas sup
piled to them direct from the plants.
In ad dition2 peat, when property dried
is said to- NAL Ike excellent fuel for
domestic purposes.
REPORT ToSsURvEY.
Professor Davis In a report to the
geologic survey says OF the prospects
OF the peat Industry. 98 Sty
The burning Of peat for power
heat, or light is but one OF its many
uses. The by products Of great value
Include coke, illumination oils, lubri-
eating oils, paraffrl wax, phenol.
asphalt, wood alcohol, acetic acid.
ISammonium sulphate and combustible
gases OF good fuel value. If used for
fuel gas there is enough NITROGEN
stored in the peat resources of the
country to supply six hundred and
forty million tons with value of
thirty-six dollars in addition to the
gas. Peat is capable of furnishing
potential substitutes for wood In
various departments of industry. and
the drain upon the vanishing forests.
Paper is now being made from peat
| lin Michigan, Possibly five per cent of
the total peat in the United States,
or 100000 tons, is suitable for the
manufacture of coarse paper and
pasteboard, which will reduce the con-
ssumptiorgof wood by whatever amount
| it displaces wood-pulp in the rnanu-
Sfacture of such articles.
II While nearly all Of the employees
1 of the department. in Washington are
/ importuning Congress to increase gov
ernment salaries SO as to make. \. At
| possible for the clerks to more readily
meet the increased cost of living one
government employe at least. and he
\ is q letter carrier, has solved Gal the
problem for himself.
IA Oyy THE PLANEyVORkS.
The postoffice department does not
buy automobiles or horses and wagons
I for the use of carriers but those hav-
Ling routes on which such vehicles are
necessary are given an allowance for
4 maintenance. The allowance FOR motor
wagons for instance Is SO a day.
The, washington City Letter carrier
Eabove referred to found himself few
years ago with about $1,000 in the
bank He at once purchasedka second
| hand automobile upon which he ex-
| pended couple hundred Of dollars
and fit it up FOR mail carrying p,lrsl
poses. His entire outlay was some
IFthing under q thousand dollars and
he estimates the cost OF maintenance
and repairs at $3.50 q year more. He.
receives for the use Of that machine.
and he estimates the life of the
machine between four and five years
so that he has. figuring $500 per an-i
mum as a sinking fund, a. profit of ups,
wards of $3.50 on his Investment each
year. Finding that there was an ops
portnnity for more business OF this
kind he bought a second machine, then
a. third, then fourth and all four are
now ming bringing him in So a day.
This particular letter carrier is frugal
and thrifty and If he continues in the
|fcourse he has adopted he will 5unqnes-
| tionably have several more machines
| in the course of the next year. 1ras-
much as there are plenty of other
| carriers to take them upon q rental
basis allowed by the government he
Ills in a fair way to save enoug h money
lsupon whiehto retire and engage in,
other business before many years have
| elapsed.
WATCH ROUGH RIDERS.
| requiring officers OF the navy and
marine. corps to take long rides and
walks to test their physical condition
so many of the members OF this
branch of the military establishment
We're seen at Buffalo Bills recent ex-.
| hibition. Every year when Colonel
| Cody brings his cowboys to Washing
| tonEthere is always a great movement
| of military men from the northwest
section to the northeast section Of the
\ city to visit the Show. This year
was no exception. General Miles
| himself was one Of the first in line
| when the ticket office was opened and
! the manager from the war department
appeared as q. representative OF Secy.
| Dickinson a the same time. In the
line with General Miles We're a score
or more of army. officers both active
1 and retired and the navy was almost
as we'll represented. There are sew
| eral hundred officers stationed in
| Washington VINO served on the plains
1 at the time that Colonel Cody was in
| his prime as a. government scout
which period extended from the late
| Sos when Ned Buntline first discov-
| cred Buffalo Bill up to the Wounded
Knee campaign of SO. Officers especi-
ally of the auartermaster's department
always takes great interest in these
expositions of frontier life not only be-
| cause of their interest In the head of
the outfit but also because they can
Invariably learn something of the
! method of quick handling large num-
bers of horses and transportation
wagons of which particular line of
/ military work the Wild West show Of
! Buffalo Bill combined with that of
Pawnee Bill as 1t is this year as well
as any other occasion either military
or civic in the known world.