The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-03-09

world thrss o. four decades EGO, In.
msnse areas Of Canada are toAay.
For hundreds Of miles east anA west
Of the Superior sAors tAs savn1ll b
ths HE Of slnsst svssy towl ssttis-
meot Mountains Of sawdust lay
everywhere. Sawdust 10 . nuisance.
II carted away At large eIpsass. 10
. white elephant on the lumbsfmak.
ers' hands. II man should appear to
any one Of the lumber manufacturess
tomorrow and say. Il will contract to
take all Of your sawdust for ten
years" the owner would b. dslightsd
to give it to him for hauling It away.
There are not oaly thousands. but
millions a tons Of It. The mills %
not burn 1t in their furnaces. - many
American manufacturer are now 10
ing. because they have more wood
trimmings than they can use.
How can this sawdust bs used Eas-
lily enough. and probably enough. too.
A method has now bssn found where
BY sawdust IL easily and cAsaply
moulded into briapsttss - hard a.
wood itself. and capable Of producing
Z heat - powerful % that Of coal.
BY mixing sawdust with glue-water
and soluble glass, and hyaraulically
pressing II, q beautiful artificial wood
IL made, which in France II called
bois durci. and which possesses \
beauty Of appearance found only In
ebony. rosewood and mahogany.
To-day the paper question" IL one
Of national importance. 1t has been
pointed out hundred times that the
newspaper. magazine and popular
novel reader is responsible for the 60
ing of our forests At . rate which
will leave US pretty nearly treeless 4
few years from now. And meanwhile,
because Of what we can class as moth
ing less than ignorance. the people of
this country and Canada are coolly
destroying an enormous paper supply
each year. For straw. after brief proc
ess, 10 paper. Last year I personally
saw thousands Of tons Of straw burn
ed by farmers on the Canadian prair-
les. Twenty million tons were burned
between Winnipeg and the coast.
The value of those stacks, in paper.
would be tremendous. and the ngure
would be doubled by those which are
burned in our own western states
Scattered evenly over the grain fields
the burned straw would not be total
loss, as 1t would be Of some assist.
ance to the soil: but burned as 1t is
In huge stacks. or "winrows." 1t does
more injury than good to the soil.
In the United States there are hun
dreds of ways In which money is
made In the utilization Of wastes
most Of them thus far being in the
hands of moneyed men, like million
aire manufacturers. packers. steel pro-
ducers. and so on. The poor mans
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 = man with
from two to Ave thousand dollars at
his command could not set up = by
product factory in waste fruit that
would pay him large dividends on his
money. What = large wholesale fruit
merchant has oartsd away from his
back door a. waste" would pay the
salaries Of his employees II turned
into vinegar. davors and oils" and
each of these by-products would be up
to the highest standard Of the pure
food regulations, for decay In fruit IL
q 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 . waste: today 1t
yields a'trsasurs. 1t has been found
now that whom sheep 10 washed the
dirty water which has clsansed the
wool 10 Of considerable value. and
that It will yield wool fat" fifteen
psr esnt ~ great ~ the wool on the
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