The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-05-09

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fibre lubricants.
In only a very few cities of the
world Is garbage made of value today.
What the wastes Of the American
housewife may be made to yield in
cash has recently been demonstrated
by Paul Bruet, German, in London.
Bruet says that he started on $1,000.
He began burning garbage in large
vertical cylinders, surrounded by
steam jackets. and evaporated the
seventy-five per cent Of water In the
garbage. The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as a result of the proc
ess he produced fertilizer which il
worth fifteen dollars 4 ton So sue.
cessful were his first operations that
he started small company on a cap.
ital Of 100000, and last year this So.
900 investment made profit Of
$4,000!
In many places throughout the
United States. and especially in tho
Canadian northwest, there are splen.
did opportunities for the wide-awake
American to make money in the es
tablishment Of a new kind Of twine
making factories. Farmers are now
using hemp or jute Irvine for bind.
ing their grain, at the enormous cost
OF from 1920 to $3.50 per ton. 1t Is
now found that an excellent Irvine can
be made from ordinary marsh grass
and from the common wire grass"
which grows abundantly over millions
Of acres of western country.
Along the Atlantic, the Pacific and
the Gulf of Mexico millions OF tons
of seaweed are cast up by the waves.
It is often four and Ave feet in depth,
and in France, where some of 1t Is
now being used, 1t Is found that it
will gather best where large stones
are placed within tide-mark on sandy
shores. In this country there Is az
yet little thought of putting seaweed
to use, and yet 1t is one Of the richest
and most productive OF all wastes"
One ton will produce eight pounds Of
iodine. large quantities Of chloride Of
potassium, four to ten gallons of VIOLA.
tile oil. three or four gallons of nap
tina, and $50 to 400 pounds of sulphate
of ammonia Only about 70 per cent
of the total mass is actual waste, and
the remaining 30 per cent in each ton
is worth between $25 and $40. The
highest value Is reached when 1t Is
turned ;. In gelose. or vegetable isin.
glass.
Science, the wizard Of the century,
touches with his fairy wand the black,
viscid coal-tar from the gas retorts,
and from the 140 pounds Of gas-tar In
a ton of coal science today makes
aniline dyes numbering over 1000 dis
tinct shades. OF medicines, antisep
tics, hypnotics and fever-allaying prep
arations 1t furnishes quinine, antipy
rine, atropine, morphine, exalgine
somnal, salol, chloralamide, hypnol
and a host of others. 1t furnishes
perfumes-heliotropin Glove, queer
of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al
monds. vanillin, camphor, wintergreer
and thymol. 1t has given to the
world bellite and picrite. two powerful
explosives. 1t supplies more than Il
flavoring extracts; Is the housekeep
ers' ally, with benzine and naptha. the
insecticides; supplies the farmer will
ammonial fertilizers, and has given t.
the photographer his two developers
hydroquinone and likonogen. 1t yields
paraflin. creosote and PITCH materia
for artificial paving; saccharin, sub
stance 300 times sweeter than sugar
1t gives us lampblack, material for rec
inks, lubricating oils, varnish, rosin
almost our entire supply Of ammonia
and other things whose names would
fill a page.
Not many years ago, when beef
was killed 40 per cent OF the ANNA
was waste. TcNay nothing Is los
"but its dying breath"
1t Is true, as Mr.. Rockefeller says
that today there Is gold mine no
SO very far from every hystline
brainy, ambitious young man in tn
United States"-and many of thes
mines" may be found in the utilizing
of wastes"