The Tupelo journal., 1911-03-10

opportunities" have not vet been TAX.
en- advantage of. Today, for instance.
there Is scarcely a city of any size In
the United States where a man with
from two t. five thousand dollars at
his command could not set up a by
product factory in waste fruit that
would pay him large dividends on his
money. What a large wholesale fruit
merchant has carted away from his
back door as waste" would pay the
salaries of his employees if turned
into vinegar, f1avors and oils and
each of these b%y-products would be up
to the highest standard of the pure
food regulations, for decay in fruit is
a chemically harmless change.
In another way there are opportu-
mites for small capital in the sheep
raising districts of the United States
and Canada. Not many years ago
gold wash was a waste; today 1t
yields a treasure. 1t has been found
now that when a sheep is washed the
dirty water which has cleansed the
wool is of considerable VALUE, and
that 1t will yield a wool fat" fifteen
per cent as great as the wool on the
sheep. From this fat five valuable
products are secured, used as the
bases for ointments, cosmetics and
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, a German, In London.
Bfuet says that he started on $1,000.
He began burning garbage In large
vertical cylinders. surrounded by
steam jackets, and evaporated the
seventy-fve per cent of water in the
garbage. The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as a result of the proc
ess he produced a fertilizer which Is
worth fifteen dollars a ton. So sue
cessful were his first operations that
he started a small company on a cap
ital of $40. zoe, and last year this $10,-
900 investment made a profit OF
$4,000!
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
a~rations it furnishes q~uinine, antipy-
rine, atropine, morphine. exalgine.
seminal, salol, c~hloralamide, hypnol.
and a host Of others. It furnishes
Observation-Disclosures, Glove, queen
of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al
monds, vanillin, camphor, wintergreen
and thymol. 1t has given to the
world bellite and picrite, two powerful
explosives. 1t supplies more than 20
f1avoring 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 l~ikonogen. 1t yields
parafin, creosote and pitch; material
for artificial paving; saccharin. q sub
stance 300 times sweeter than sugar.
It gives us lampblack, material for red
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 a "beef"
was killed 40 per cent Of the animal
was waste. Today nothing is lost
"but its dying breath"
1t is true, as Mr.. Rockefeller says,
that today there Is a gold mine not
SO very far from every nustling.
brainy. ambitious young man in the
United States'-and many Of these
mines may be found in the utilizing
Of wastes"