The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-26
NITROGEN FROld THE AIR
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 For the manufacture of air nitrate fertilizer in a commercial scale, Cheap electrical power Is essential, and for this reason water power for generating electricity is sought. Limestone and coke are used in large quantities, and supplies of these materials. if ayail- able at relatively low cost, prove im- lportant factors in reducing the cost of manufacture and in assuring the suc- cess of the industry. It Is estimated that the undeveloped water power of the United States Is equivalent to ap- lproximately 30,00o 900 horse power.
 with the rapid appreciation in re- cent years of the cost of fertilizer ma lterials, their much more general use, and the prospect that a few decades at most will witness the exhaustion of the Chilean deposits of nitrate, 1t Is not surprising that efforts have beeen made 10 draw upon other sources, and espe- clally to utilize the supply of nitrogen in the air. With limestone and coke lin abundance and vast water power unused, fl would appear that tho new process by which the air Is drawn upon for nitrogen might enable the United States to manufacture fertilizers in suf- fcient quantity to keep at home the st7, 100000 now going abroad annually for such goods"
 1 On page 13 of the same report Con- sul Webster writes as follows:
 within the past year entirely new industry has been established in Canada--one which has attracted a great deal of attention because of it's drect bearing on the cost of manufac- ture of fertilizers, and hence it's bear ing on the cost and production of food- stuffs."
 On page 16 of the same report. Mr. Webster says:
 "The exhaustion of soils in the United States has increased with great rap- idity in recent years. and this has re- suited in the establishment of great fertilizer Industries. there being in- vested in factories for this purpose alone in the United States about 970,- 000, 900, and yet the fertilizer industry is said to be only in its Infancy. Tho worlds chief supply of nitrogen comeu from the Chilean desert. from which was exported in one recent year 376.- 100000 worth of nitrate, practically o( per cent of which was used in agricul- ture. During the last decade tho ex. |portation of Chilean nitrate has in. creased 50 per cent in quantity, 60 pel cent in price. and 250 per cent in totnl value The Chilean government eot1. mates that the nitrate fields will he ax. hausted in about 45 years"