Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-04

al fe sources, the cOnciuSiciiS r.lcht'd would be more reliable fl actual eSper. fence were consulted. and fewer dedac- tions were drawn from general state ments. which are often the product fl the imagination.
 lt cannot be questioned that tie value of by-products has not been suf- fitieEtly appreciated by us. ana t,.-.t oar tardiness in recovering the useful ingredients of the escaping gas of our coke ovens is one of The most giaring instances of shortcoming in tha. direc- tion. And yet even for that sin thcrc is some palliation in the immature con. dition of affiliated industries. l pre- sume that it is admitted. without ar gnment, that. except under very ex- ceptional conditions, all the elements cannot be recovered from most of the ores or natural products which we treat. While it is shame that the by products from our coke ovens should be dissipated, Edward w. Parker's re- port to the U. s. Geological Survey for 1906 supplies a fairly good excuse in justification of this appalling waste. He says tpp 77S to 774):
 What has been already commented on in previous reports about the slow ness of manufacturers to change from the better known but wasteful beehive practice of the y-product-recovery method os coke manufacture is partic- ularly emphasized in the statistics pre- scented in this chapter. For it would appear from the table following that the construction of by-product ovens had about come to standstill, espe- cially when the records for the preced- ing five years are taken into consid- eration.
 "One of the reasons that has been assigned for the comparatively retro zressive condition exhibited by the statistics for 1905 ard 1906 is the lack of assurance of steady sup ply of coal tar pitch for a binder, and users Of creosoting oils for the preser- vation of timber complain of an in sufficient domestic supply Of this pro duct of coal-tar distillation."
 The truth is that one branch of in dustry is so dependent upon another that there must be equal progress along the whole line of industrial life, if complete recovery of all the avail able clements of our natural resources is to be effected. The chemical indus try must keep pace with the mining and metallurgical industry. We may be moving too slowly in that direction, but We can distinguish steady movement toward this needful cooper ation. It is encouraging for instance, to find that the waste gases from the furnaces of the Tennessee Copper com pany are being turned into sulphuric acid for the manufacture from South ern prosphates of the superphosphates which the fertilizers of the Southern r-..H ' ay |. L.. mutual relation between the metallur- gist Of Tennessee and the chemical manufacturer, the blame should not rest entirely upon the metallurgist for wasting that for which. heretofore. he has been unable to find a market. The same justification exists abroad as in this country for similar waste in other branches of industrial activity.
 Recovery of By-Produets by Legal
 Compulsion
 It is nevertheless true that legal compulsion alone has driven manu- lecturers to introduct improvements and economies which were demanded by safety, and which have redounded to the benefit of the reluctant corpora tions. In Germany and England the disposal of noxious vapors and noxious liquors has been required of the manu lecturers, but their compulsory re moval from the atmosphere and the water has resulted in their conversion into useful products, and the building up of new technical industries. An agitation is springing up in the West against the fumes from smelling works being turned lose into the at mosphere While in some cases the injury done to vegetation may have been falsely attributed to the smoke from metlllurgical works, the agita- tion has been followed by some good results. For instance, the Mountain Copper company. having been driven our of Shasta county. Cal -,by the farm CTS, has erected chemical works as an annex to its smelter at Martinez, on San Francisco bay. Here, as. else where, manufacturers are reluctant to go to the heavy expense involved in abatins such nuisances, even though they may know that in the end the abatement will be profitable. As far back as 1881 Mir. Vivian admitted that in recovering Al per cent of all the sulphuric acid emitted from his fur nases in Swansea. he condensed 366c tons of oil of vitriol at great profit. This valuable asset, though he does not so state. was secured in spite of bitter opposition on the part of those who were ultimately the most bene- fitted by i.. One looks with wonder ment at the clonds of valuable fumes which float from the New Jersey shore over Staten island to the sea instead of flowing inland as acid to the chem ical manufacturers in the neighbor- hood.
 Our industrial development. how ever, has reached such a state of ad- vancement, especially in the densely- populated portion of the country, that however averse some of us may be to expand a large share of our profits in improvements. designed primarily to relieve the public of nuisances, we must submit whether We will or not. And having obeyed the mandate of the law, not many years will eiapse before we cnme to realize that what we do under compulsion is as much for our own good as for that of our neighbor
 Early Experience in Arizona.
 promised, however, to confine my. self in my remarks to matters of ex- perience. have been identified with the copper interests of the Southwest since Issl Though the Southern Pa cific railroad had only just traverses the territory, mining was inmediatei, stimulated by railroad transportation and the Copper Queen. at Bisbee, the Old Dominion. at Globe, and the Lezin skys tthe predecessors of the Arizona Copper company as well as the De troit Copper company, were activei, at work at Clifton. All three Of tn' most productive districts. therefore. ol r- . .s1 -.~I