Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-26
MINES BUREAU
DOES MUCH FOR
INDUSTRY IN
NATION
Van H. Manning, Director, in
Annual Report, Tells of
Much That Can Be Done
to Save Millions Annually.
SERIES OF INDUSTRIAL
ACHIEVEMENTS GIVEN
Various Parts of the Country
Are in Position to Take Up
the Production of Minerals
Which Europe Formerly
Dominated.

WASHINGTON, Dec 25.-What the
United States Bureau of Mines is do
ing to aid in the development of min
eral Industries in this country by sug-
costing new and better emthods Of
manufacture, by stopping the waste Of
valuable mineral resources and BY sug
costing uses for material thought to
be of no particular value. is detailed
by the Director, Van. H. Manning, in
the annual report of the bureau for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915.
issued today
The report is a series of chapters
of big industrial achievements BY Am
erican manufacturers, of millions OF
dollars saved, of heretofore useless
waste material turned into profitable
industry. of new industries being Gre
ated to manufacture what has former
ly been imported and of the conse-
quent growing industrial indepen-
dence of the United States. The be-
ginning of the European war and the
shutting off of certain manufactured
imports is said to have spurred this
government agency TO renewed and
more determined efforts in behalf OF
the people and the results are shown
in a number Of industries that have
been aided
When the expectation of coal tar
products by Germany was stopped by
the war and manufacturers who used
dyes and those who make explosives
could not obtain the necessary ingre-
dents, the bureau called attention to
the fact that there was in this coun-
try a great abundance of raw materi.
al, and that S75,OOOOOO of thee psrod.
ucts were being wasted each year
through the use of the beehive coke
oven instead of the by-product oven.
1t urged a cautious building up of the
| industry and the result has been the
construction of additional by-products
coke oven that have added 10 the year
ly output several million gallons OF
benzol needed in chemical manufac-
lures.
The bureau, at the same time, gave
to the country a process devised by
one Of its chemists, Dr. w. f. Rittman
! for the manufacture from petroleum.
/ of benzol and toluol, used in the man
| ugacture Of dyes and high explosives.
This process has since been demon
| strated on a commercial scale. Its
importance to this country lies in the
] fact that il gives the United States
an important source Of material useful
| in the making of high explosives.
something It did not have before. DIT.
Rittman also devised a process which
will enable refners to increase the
output of gasoline from crude petro-
leum 200 percent or even more. the
patent right to this process to be dedi-
Gated TO the public to prevent monop-
oily.
The bureau has developed that the
losses TO the oil and natural gas indus
try in a years time through careless
and reckless exploitation amounts to
$5O.OOO,00O and has devised and de-
monstrated a practical process for
drilling wells by which the waste of
gas and the invasion of water may be
stopped, thus saving in a single state
natural gas worth more than $l5,O00,-
600
Looking into the future the bureau
is investigating the vast deposits OF
the so-called oil shales of Utah and
Colorado. believing that the oil supply
will come from them and at no dis
tant period, These shales, II is said
rival as sources of petroleum, the oil
shales Of Scotland and New South
Wales. which have been prohtably ex
plotted in spite Of the continued com
petition of oil from other sources.
The studying Of the combustion Of
coal by experts of the bureau has LED
to certain information that calls thai
calls for new designs for futnacei
which will prove more economical
The investigations have disclosed tina
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