The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-23
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The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord says that the manufacture OF lime
in the United States is large, impor-
tant and rapidly growing industry.
Few mineral products have so wide
a variety of uses as lime \ little
more than half the lime manufactured
in the United States is used as a
structural material, and the remain
der, amounting to more than 1,250,000
tons, valued at about S5,250,000, is
used for chemical purposes. The prin-
cipal uses which lime has in building
operations are in lime mortars and
plasters, in guaging Portland cement
mortars. concrete and gypsum plas-
ters, and as a whitewash. Both quick
and hydrated lime are used in build
ing operations.
Lime is burned in nearly all the
states and territories, Pennsylvania
leading in 1909 with a value OF more
than $2,500.000. The total produc-
ton of 1909 was 3,472,S52 short tons.
valued at $13,S05, 405, the highest in
the history of the industry and an in
crease over the figures for 1908 OF
nearly IS per cent. The average price
per ton in 1909 was $39S. In addition
to these figures lime to the value of
SIS, 405 was produced in 1909 from
burning oyster shells These and 9TH
er statistics of lime production, and
notes on the manufacture of hydrated
lime, by Ernest F. Burchard of the
United States geological survey, are
given in a separate chapter of Min
eral Resources" for 1909, the compila-
ton being the result of cooperation
between the geological survey and
the bureau of the census.
According to Mr.. Burchard, recent
tests have indicated that magnesium
lines are generally best suited to
structural work and high calcium
lines to chemical purposes, but for
certain uses the reverse of this rule
is true, and for many applications in
each branch of industry either type
of lime is equally well suited. The
chemical uses of lime are much more
varied than the uses of lime in build
ing. Lime is used for soil renovation
or sweetening, for insecticides and
fungicides, for egg preservation, for
water and sewer publication, as a dis
infectant and deodorizer, for bleach
ing, in the manufacture of numerous
chemicals. in gas manufacture, in the
milling industry, in paint and varnish
manufacture, and in the paper, smelt-
ing, beet-sugar, tanning and many 9TH
err industries.
1t is not known what amount of
lime is used for agricultural purposes,
but Mr.. Burchard notes that many of
the producers reporting to the survey
are farmers who do not operate on
a commercial scale, but merely burn a
kiln or two of lime occasionally for
their own use. In some sections lime
is known to be very extensively used
as a soil sweetener, and most of the
state agricultural experiment stations
have published bulletins discussing
it's effect on farm crops.
The lime deposits in this county, we
believe, are the most extensive of any
in the United States, and they seem
inexhaustible Near Ocala is lime
deposit that has furnished barrels
and barrels of lime continuously for
thirty or more years, and it looks as
if it's operations will be familiar
sights to our grandchildren. Similar
deposits are in many sections of the
county.
The uses of lime are becoming
more and more generally known, and
Marion county's lime deposits are as
valuable an asset as are her phos-
plate and turpentine enterprises.
The reputation of Marion county's
lime is becoming more and more ex-
tensive, and the more it is used the
more it is praised, and is now the ia
vorite brand with builders in places
where it was once 'boycotted"
Chemists are at work, we inder-
stand, to broaden the field of the uses
of lime, and the man with lime de-
post need have no fears of ending his
career at the county poor farm.
After living the life of a hermit in