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In only very few cities OF the
world Is garbage made of value today.
What the WASTES" of the American
houseSSfe may be made TO yield in
cash has recently been demonstrated
by Paul Bruet. IA German. in London.
Bruet says that he started on $1,000
He began burning garbage III large
vertical cylinders. surrounded by
steam jackets. and evaporated the
seyenty-fve per cent of water n the
garbage. The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as result of the proc
ess he produced a fertilizer which is
worth fifteen dollars ton. So sue
cessful were his first operations that
he started a small company on cap
ital of $4,000, and last year this S10,-
600 investment made profit of
$4,000,
In many places throughout the
United States, and especially In the
Canadian northwest. there are splen-
did opportunities for the wide-awalle
American to make money in the es-
Enlistment OF a new kind of twine.
making factories Farmers are now
using hemp or iute twine for bind
Ing their A'ain, at the enormous cost
of from sl20 to $3.50 per ton. 1t is
now found that an excellent twine can
be made from ordinary marsh grass
and from the common wire grass
which grows abunda ntly 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.
1t is often four and five feet in depth.
and in France where some of it is
now being used, it is found that it
will gather best where large stones
are placed within tide-merk on sandy
shores. In this country there is as
yet little thought of putting seaweed
to use, and yet it 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 vola-
tile oil, three or four gallons of nap
tha, and $50 to 400 pounds of sulphate
of ammonia. Only about 70 per cent
of the total mass is actual waste, and
the remaining 80 per cent in each ton
is worth between s25 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
ton Of coal science today makes
aniline dyes numbering over 1000 dis
tinct shades. OF medicines, antisep-
tics, hypnotics and fever-allaying prep
arations it furnishes quinine, antipy-
rine, atropine, morphine, exalgine,
somnal, salol, chloralamide, hypnol,
and host of others. 1t furnishes
perfumes-heliotropi Glove, queen
Of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al
monds, vanillin camphor, wintergreen
and thymol. 1t has given to the
world belllte and picrite, two powerful
explosives 1t supplies more than 20
flavoring extracts; is the housekeep-
ers' ally. with benzine and naptha, the
insecticides; supplies the farmer with
ammonial fertilizers, and has given to
the photographer his two developers,
hydroquinone and likonogen 1t yields
paratf1n, creosote and pitch; material
for artificial paving; sacchar1n, SUBJ
stance 300 times sweeter than sugar.
1t gives us lampblack, material for red
inks, lubricating oils. varnish, rosin,
almost our entire supply of ammonia,
and other things whose names would
fiji page.
Not many years ago, when a beef"
was killed 40 per cent of the animal
was waste. Today nothing Is lost
"but it's dying breath"
1t is true, as Mr. Rockefeller says,
that today there is a gold mine not
so very far from every hustling,
brainy. ambitious young man in the
United States"-and many OF these
mines" may be found in the utilizing
of wastes"