The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-17

guage.
Could the statesmen of a bygone genera
ton arise from their graves they would
surely think a miracle had been wrought.
Before the civil war il was declared thaL
America was first Of all an agricultural
nation. and would alWays remain so. But
their sons have lived to see the products
of the farmg yield second place to the
products of the factory. and today the
nation which was 10 their minds destined
to be the agricultural nation of the world
has manufactures aggregating IN value
SO .C0Q00,OD year, and agricultural prod
ucts whose total value is s.. 900U.VoO More
than one-half Of the entire product OF the
combined energy of our 0.o00000 people IS
represented i'm the products of the fac
tories Of the country 1t Is said that the
total productive capacity of the people Of
the United States is valued at SZ6.OOWeUU
a year, OF 500 per capita. There are oOJ,-
900 Wage-earners engaged in menufactur-
ing. They convert nine billion dollars
worth Of raw and partly raw material
into S15O0O. 900 900 worth of finished prod
uct Il viii be seen from this that their
gross earning capacity IS upward OF Sl-WV
a year
one is hardly prepared for the state
ment that i'm point Of value of output the
slaughtering and packing industry is the
biggest In the United States. nor for the
information that there are more men en-
gagged in lumber and wood working than
/ in any other manufacturing industry ~
the country 10000 Of them being So en-
gagged. The manufacture Of things TO eat
] ana fntTES TO wear Is ABOUT Nitf-AAiiU ~
all the manufacturing being carried on in
I the United states. Add the iron and steel
industry. and the result is just about one
4 half Of the total manufacturing output.
! America now stands safely al the head
! of the manufacturing nations OF the
world. 1t is over 5000. 100000 ahead OF
/ England. both I'm capital and in product
| And England is as much ahead OF Ger
many as it is behind America. There
I has never been any official census OF
/ Industries i'm any European country such
| as the United States had every ten years
uD to 1900 and every five wears since then.
Yet the statistics have been closely gath
/ cred, and they show that the National
Manufacturers association represents as
great an output of commodities as is
produced by any two other countries eX-
| cept England
/ At no other time i'm history has the
! manufacturer been so progressive as the
/ American manufacturer of today. II took
| five centuries to go from the spanish
/ galleOn TO the Lusitania 1T required six
/ ~ years to develop the railroad engine
up to its present high standard. But
| single decade has sufficed to evolve the
/ automobile from its experimental stage
I up to d product Of the highest usefulness
/ and greatest efficiency. And so il is in al
I most every branch of manufacture. No
/ one century ever gave as much progress
/ to the world as the past twenty years
! have given.
! New industries are being morn so rap
/ idly that the laymen can scarcely Keep
! track OF them. Who ever thought of
! Wrecking whole railroad train or set
/ ting house on fire in order to get
picture a decade ago? Yet the moving
l picture man came upon the scene and
Z those things became in order And the
moving picture has in turn helped TO
! launch another industry. Not long since
/ there was a new glass factory set up IN
/ the west 1t used automatic glass blow
ers. When it needed more capital it went
/ into the financial districts in search OF
I il. The financial men were dubious. They
could not understand how a machine could
I blow glass Then the glass makers be
| thought themselves to use the moving
/ picture man to prove II. They did so,
and got their money without further ques-
Z tiOn.
/ American ingenuity can produce the
worlds mighuest electric engine, with
! horsepower far into the thousands, and
! it can produce the smallest motor, weigh
/ ing only tWenty-seVen grains. This mo-
/ tor was made by a Texas manufacturing
| ieweler. The field magnets are of the
! finest sheet steel. and so small that they
/ can scarcely be seen. The power is tax
en- off by a brush Of nearly the same in
| visible dimensions and the finest silk
covered wire is used in winding the ar
! mature. The motor is driven by a tiny
/ silver chloride battery. The jeweler
| wears it as a scarf pin. and can make
the little thing buzz as busily as the big
gest motor one ever saw.
1t has been well that denatured alco-
: hol has come upon the scene as a cheap
I fuel and a motive power for small estab-
lishments which have hitherto used oil.
/ 1t is estimated that in the past half-cen-
fury the oit fields of North America have
produced enough petroleum to fill the
entire Panama canal when completed But
the eastern oil fields are expected TO cease
to flow in important quantity within the
next decade. Denatured alcohol, depen-
dent not upon stOred-up supply which
can never be added to- but upon man S
! power to make it. is one of the examples
NnF O. ma ae Ffn.a
great resources near extinction. Concrete
comes along as the substitute for wood.
and it Is expected by one school of eco
nOmic thought that no resource will ever
become exhausted but that man will have
/ a working substitute for IT,
The discovery Of saccharine. one Of the
most important of the coal tar derivatives,
/ news how the scientist may stumble up
on something of inestimable value to the
manufacturer. A Johns Hopkins chemist
/ was experimenting with coal tar to find
some new properties, more with a view
to assigning them high-sounding names
than with the expectancy Of discovering
something which would develop into a
great Industrial asset. When he went
home to dinner he found that the bread
had a remarkably sweet taste. His land
lady declared she had not put sugar into
it. and the other bOarders did not dis
cover anything wrong with theirs. IL
was finally discovered that the sweet
ness was on his hands He FASTENED
back TO his laboratory and examined
everything he had there. Finally he To-
Gated it, and the saccharine of com
merCe was the result. 1t is so sweet
I that four pounds of il will go further
than a ton of cane or beet sugar. One
Gamer of corn was able to save $500
worth of corn in q single season through
the use of saccharine. Il requires only
One-fOurth of q grain to sWeeten a can
of corn. and the result is that a man
never eats more than a sixteenth of a
grain of il at one time. 1t is widely used
in swee tening chewing tobacco and other
things to which il is necessary to impart
a lasting flavor Of sweetness. It is also
used as a substitute for sugar I'm the
| treatment Of govt and kindred ailments
Every day new things are being in
vented and manufactured Thirty years
ago the number of articles made in tho