The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-07-19
new FERTILIZER PROCESS.
SULPIIURIC ACID NOT NEEDED
FOR MANUFACTURING.
Interstate Chemical Corporation
Claims Process That VIII ReyOlu-
tionize the Industry - Higher
Grade of Fertilizers at Lower
Cost, According to Statement.
News and Courier.

the current number of the Manufac-
turers' Record, of Baltimore, the In
headquarters in Charleston, has con-
troll of a process by which fertilizer
will be made without the use of sui
phuric acid, thus explaining the or
der for the closing down of sulphuric
acid plants Of this concern, which is
capitalized at $7,25O.OOO. William B.
Chisolm, of Charleston, is president
of the company; he is absent from
Charleston. No statement was avail
| able last night from any of the Off
GERS now here. For some time it has
been understood that the Interstate
intended to close it's factories but no
official statement was given out for
publication.
The manufacturing of fertilizer
without sulphuric acid will revolu-
tiOnize the industry, it is stated, since
product of higher grade can be
made at lower cost. AS Charleston
is the biggest point in the world for
the manufacture Of fertilizer, the
claims made by the Interstate are of
peculiar interest here and the de-
| velOpment of the plans for changing
the factories i'm order to meet the re-
quirements of the new process will
be closely followed. The Interstate
has been doing business since October
1911. It's gross sales are reported to
reach very large figures. It's offices
are located at 21 Broad street It's
| officers are; President William b.
Chisolm, of Charleston; vice-presi-
| dent, r. b. Tilghman, of New York; d.;
secretary, John ID. Muller, of Charles
ton; treasurer, Charles b. Bryan, of
New York; general manager the
sales department, William II. Tucker.
Of Charleston.
The following is the article pub
lished in the Manufacturers Record:
THAT sulphuric acid is no longer
lizers is the remarkable statement
issued by the Interstate Chemical
Corporation, Of Charleston, S. c., and
New York. The company was orga-
nized in October 1911, with a capital
ization of s7,250.000 and financed by
John SHELTON Williams, of John l..
Williams & Son, Richmond; Red
mound & Co. and j. & w. Seligman
& Co., Of New York, and Midden-
dorf, Williams & Co., of Baltimore,
and others. The directors include
members of these firms and other
prominent bankers and fnancers,
with Mr.. w. b. Chisolm, for many
years a leading phosphate and ferti-
lizer operator, as president. Mr.. F.
b. Tilghman as vice president and
Mr.. Charles S. Bryan, of New York,
as treasurer. The company has is
sued statement explaining why 1t
had closed down all of it's sulphuric
acid plants, and in this connection
makes the following announcements:
The cOmpany's new process for
making fertilizers without the use of
sulphuric acid has proven so conclu-
sivsly successful as to render the flu,
ture making Of sulphuric acid unnec-
essary.
For the past year this com
pany has been making exhaustive ex-
periments on their process for MAX
ing fertilizers without the use of sui
phuric acid, and are now doing so on
an entirely satisfactory commercial
scale.
Their product is very much low
er in cost of production than the old
form of fertilizers, is greatly increas-
ed in grade, is in a perfect mcchani-
cal condition, and is of the highest
solubility, analyzing 45 per cent. of
ammonia and to 6 per cent. pot
ash
Coming from a company of such
standing as this the statement viii
attract far more attention than would
be given to it If made by people of
less business and financial response
bility, for it is n rcvolutionizing prop
osition. If sulphuric acd is no long
cr needed under the SyStCm which