Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1911-03-23

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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, German, in London.
BrAuet 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 fertilizer which is
worth fifteen dollars ton. So sue
cessful were his first operations that
he started small company on a cap
ital of $4,000, and last year this $10,-
900 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-awake
American to make money in the es-
tablishment of new kind of twine.
making factories. Farmers are now
using hemp or jute twine for bind
ing their grain, at the enormous cost
of from s120 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 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.
1t is often four and five feet in depth,
and in France, where some of it is
now being used, 1t is found that 1t
will gather best where large stones
are placed within ude-mark 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 250 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 $25 and $40. The
highest value is reached when it 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 host of others. 1t furnishes
perfumes-heliotrop 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
favoring 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
paraiIin, creosote and pitch; material
for artificial paving; saccharin, a sub
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
fill page.
Not many years ago, when 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 net
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"