The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-09-11

is now working in eastern Washington, where his
work is not yet completed. He has been assisted
by A. A. Hammer, graduate of the state college.
Professor Shedd has found numerous cement areas
in the state, many of them cropping out in unex-
pected places.
Down the Pend Oreille river near the towns of
lone, Cement and Metane, he observed large de-
posits of limestone and shales and some clays.
Considerable development work has been done in
the vicinity of Metaline. A little cement has been
made at Cement. Shales, limestones and clays
occur in the vicinity of Colville and Kettle Falls,
also along the Columbia river Near Bossburg,
Ryan and Northport large deposits of limestone,
shale and clay are found. In Okanogan county
Mr.. Hammer found some limestone.
Professor Shedd thinks that the cement industry
should assume large proportions in the state.
While large and numerous areas of limestone,
shales and clays were examined during the course
of the summer field work, it will be necessary to
make chemical analyses and experimental tests to
determine the value of the various deposits.
s~S
Followers of Hermon F. Titus were completely
rounted and an entire new government by the
insurgents elected and the constitution radically
modified, as the result of the referendum vote of
the entire membership of the socialist party of the
state as announced after the official count by the
state committee. The vote was sent out July 20
and was cast during the following 20 days. In it
the members of the party were asked to indorse or
respect the action of the state convention at Ever
EFT July 3, 4, 5, and the question, with all its
phases was approved by vote of 407 to 3. WI.
Sax of Colville and T. M. Wood of Echo were
elected state committeeman.
A nam named Simmons is said to have declined
to become the private secretary of man named
Green for peculiar reason. The salary was
tempting, and the work would have been light and
agreeable, but then, as he said, he couldn't bear
the thoughts of signing letters: Green, per Sim
mons'
A telegraphic dispatch from Chicago reports
that process has been discovered and is being
applied in that city by which alcohol can be
made from sawdust at an expense Of about seven
cents gallon. This is ordinary commercial alco-
hol not the so-called wood alcohol the latter be-
ing obtained by process of destructive dstillaton.
AS laboratory proposition there is nothing novel
about this. This novelty, if any, consists in ap-
plying well-known laboratory processes CONNER
cially and cheaply.
Thus science keeps progress with local option. 1t
may soon come when any one, by proper combi-
nation of river water with pail of sawdust, may
produce sufficient alcohol for family use. Each
drug store could have it's sawdust bin in the back
yard and draw from it as became necessary. The
drummer, when entering dry town. could carry
with him few handfuls of sawdust and make his
own alcohol with any favoring to suit his taste,
adding salt and peper or red ink he may desire.
This is indeed a world of discovery
Sawdust, shavings, slabs, edgings and all odds
and ends, may be converted into pure alcoho-one
ton of dry sawdust alone producing Is gallons of
alcohol.
The inventors of the process figure the average
cost of raw material to the manufacturers at about
20 cents per ton.
In the state of Washington one of it's problems is
the easiest and cheapest way of disposing of the
waste of the mills"
If this material, hitherto considered worthless,
is suddenly made valuable new source of produc-
ton is opened and new commercial asset is given
the state
This is not the point, however that appeals to
the public generally, but rather that alcohol, which
heretofore has cost 35 cents gallon for manufac-
tlre from grains, can now be made for Z cents
thus placing the highest grade of alcohol within
reach as fuel In fact it will soon become the
cheapest fuel, so the inventors claim and will
surely displace gasoline in motor cars and other
machines.
It has been known for some time that alcohol
would burn-whether pure or whether as the ex-
harating ingredient of red eye." 1t seems
capable both of consuming and of being consumed.
Growing sentiment is trying to gradually separate
it from the internal anatomy of the human race,
but not until this latest discovery has it been
known that man can just as easily get up steam
hu arnntvino the alcohol bottle into the fuel tank