The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-03-17

opportunities" have not yet 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 to 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 II turned
into vinegar, fiavors and "oils," and
each of these by-products would be up
10 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 It
Yields a treasure. It has been found
now that when a sheep is washed the
dirty water which has cleansed the
wool is of considerable value, and
that it 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 d 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.
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 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 $4,000, and last year this $1O,.
600 investment made profit OF
$4,000!
Science, the wizard Of the century,
touches with his fairy wand the black
viscid coal-tar from the gas retortsr
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 It furnishes quinine, antipy
rine, atroplne, morphine, exalgine
somnal, salol, chloralamide, hypnol
and a host Of others. 1t furnishes
Observation-Disclosures, Glove, queen
of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al
monds, vanillin, camphor, wintergreer
and thymol. 1t has given to the
world bellite and plcrite, two powerful
explosives. 1t supplies more than 2C
havoring extracts; is the housekeep
ers' ally, with benzine and naptha, the
insecticides; supplies the farmer witt
ammonial fertilizers, and has given tC
the photographer his two developers
hydroquinone and likonogen. 1t yields
paraffin, creosote and pitch; material
for artificial paving; saccharin, a sub
bIduCe oOV JlLuSS S"CCISl IHdA 0u6"A
1t gives us lampblack, material for rec
inks, lubricatlng 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 anima
was waste. Today nothing is lost
"but its dying breath"
1t is true, as Mr. Rockefeller says
that today "there is a gold mine moi
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"