The Paonia newspaper., 1911-03-10
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opportunities" have not vet been TAX
en- advantage of Today, for instance,
there is scarcely 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. favors and oils" and
each OF these by-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 II
yields a treasure. II 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
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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
Bruet says that be started on $1,000.
He began burning garbage IN large
vertical cylinders. surrounded by
steam jackets. and evaporated the
seventy-hye per cent of water in the
garbage. The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as 4 result of the proc
ess he produced 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 slo.-
900 investment made profit OF
$4,000,
Science, the wizard OF the century.
touches with his fairy wand the black.
viscid coaltar 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. or medicines. anusep-
tics. hypnotics and iever-allaytng prep
arations II furnishes quinine. anipy-
rine. atropine. morphine. exalgine.
somnal. salol. chloralamide. hypnol.
and a host OF others. II furnishes
perfumes-heliotropi Glove. queen
OF the meadows. cinnamon, bitter al
monds. vanillin. camphor. wintergreen
and thymol. II has given to the
world bellite and picrite. two powerful
explosives. II supplies more than 20
fiavoring 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. II yields
parafiln. creosote and pitch: material
for artificial paving: saccharin. a sub
stance 800 times sweeter than sugar.
II gives us lampblack. material for red
inks. lubricating oils. varnish. rosin.
almost our entire supply OF ammonia.
and other things whose names would
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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 hustling,
brainy. ambitious young man in the
United States'-and many Of these
mines" may be found In the utilizing