Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-14
IMPORTANCE Of
DYE MAKING IS
NOW REALIZED
Effect of War on American
Industries Shown by Wayin
Which New Enterprises Have
Sprung Into Existence,

tsssctsu coHaEsroHnENcE 70 MORNING JousuALl
Washington, Dec. 15-The United
states realizes how dependent It's great
textile Industries have been ON foreign
producers of dyestuffs There has
been much complaint from users Of
d,pstuffS ana much comment as TO
now the needs of users could be or
ara bcing temporarily met, but much
remains to Joe done to assure the up
building of permanent dyestuffs i'm
ou.try sufficient Go the eountrF's
needs
lf tho raw material, cuking coal
tine United States has abundant sup
ufI,s. and the potential output OF coal
.lr and the light oils from gas plants.
.4as benzol, is far greater than that
of Germany. However the actual out
uut DO the basal substances has been
much less I'm 1913 the United states,
with an output of 415oo0,o00 tons of
luminous coal, the source of coal
tar produced only about 100000 600
Gallons oi coal tar and 100000 gall
IONS III gas bcnzof
Germany with coal output of 2e5.-
UuU .000 tons I'm the same year pro-
dured more jhan $4,000 600 gallons of
bcuzo ll tire fiscal year ended June
800 1914. Germany exported coRl-tar
dy,. worth g55. 900 COO, whereas the
United states i'm the same year inn
ported dyes worth 10000 600. al
most the entire consumption in this
country with imports of dyestutfs
reduced and with an extraordinary de-
mand for benzol, touol, phenol and
other "nitcrmiate' products, there has
been an Increased domestic produc-
ton.. But SO far this increase has
been greater in intermediate products
chan finished dyestufls
Raw Materials Abundant
Not only is there an abundant
source OF coal tar dycsuffs i'm this
country. but another source of henzol
and toluol has been developed by pr.
Eulman. Of the bureau of mines, who
obtains them from petroleum The
United States leads the world i'm the
output of petroleum and produces
more than 60 per cent Of the total am
nual Yield Clearly, from coal tar and
petroleum the products necessary for
the manufacture of synthetic dNostuffs
cam bc produced in quantities far in
excess OF our needs,
That the urgent needs of textile
manufacturers i'm the United States
can De met I'm part, at least by the
use of natural dyes obtained from
logwood. ustic and the tannins, which
can De had la large supplies, is true,
and mo- doubt there viii be Il perma-
ucnt Increase in theii production As
the more brilliant and easily applied
synthetic dyes suppanted vegetable
dyes. and as one country has almost
monopolized the production of Gym
theuc dyes it remains to be seen
whether vegetable dyes can hold their
own when competition again bo9mes
keen
The establishinl of a synthetic dye
industry ON a permanent basis in the
United States is necessary to our in
aus,riai indep, adcnce How to meet
the competition of another country IN
which the services Of the ablest chem
lists and millions of dollars have been
given to upbuildng the industry is a
problem of first importance.
Investigation In order.
The subject should be carefully i'm
vesdgated by this government in or
der that congress, users of dyestuifs
and the public may be Informed re-
eardme the work to hc done in estab-
1i-bfn, aud t,,,l.ptI1ipo tho tnItttt,v