The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-10-01

lack OF dyes will begin operation a
soon as they can secure American dyes
More than two million people are di
rectly affected by the present dye fam
Inc In this country. II Is estimated ,ant
ten times that many Indirectly. In
dustries which use dye stuffs and hav,
been handicapped during the pas
year because of the lack of dyes in.
clude manufacturers of woolens, silks
cotton, paints, varnish. paper, inks
leather goods, soaps, perfumes and
medicinal preparations.
In the past, 80 per cent of the dye
stuffs used in this country have beer
imported from Germany. The German
dye exports have totalled more thar
/ t52,00O,000 year, OF which one fourth
have come to the United States.
The new plant now under construc-
ton at Camel City Is In charge OF
Milton A. Allen, who will be general
manager after its completion. With
him is J. L. Campbell, OF England, a
chemist of wide experience and high
standing in his native land who ar
rived at Camel City several weeks
ago to take charge of the laboratory
of the plant. DR.. Gage, one of the
joint inventors Of the process, is at
Camel City for short time, watch
ing the construction of the plant, and
Mr.. Pearse left last week for the East
after he had seen the first furnace
constructed and the operation of the
plant actually started
The furnaces that will be used are
large cylindrical tanks ten feet or
more in diameter and forty feet high,
into which crushed camel coal is
poured from the top, oil and coke re-
sulting from the oxidation. The coke
is used in providing gas to burn in the
furnace and the oils carried through a
distillation process and then treatment
in the dyehouse. by which the dye
stuffs and many by-products are Sc
cured. What processes are used in
treating the oil were not divulged by
the inventors, who intend. at least for
a time. to keep them a secret.
Not only does the operation of the
new plant mean employment for sew
eral hundred men, after the construc-
ton gangs have gone, bet II means
that the Kentucky Block Camel Coal
Company will have to increase it's op-
GRAFTON several fold to meet the de-
mand for coal that the new company
has indicated ii will require. DIR. Gage
said when the plant is in full operation
II will require 500 tons of coal day.
To meet this demand, the coal COM
pany has already opened two new
mines Immediately adjacent to the
plant of the Pearsite Company and
will make every effort to provide all
the coal that may be needed.
ha aEx,
Company has been in operation about
fifteen years and has mined only a
small portion of the Camel City field
that they control, and the production
OF that territory has verified the orig
inal prospecting OF the bed made 20
years ago by George NJ. Sullivan. then
with the State Geological Survey The
company is glad to have steady mar
ket close at hand for large quantity
OF COAL and will fill that order and
continue its regular coal trade. too.
Judging from the production of the
past fifteen years and the estimate of
the coal in this field, II will be able to
supply the increased demand for many
years yet
The Kentucky Block Camel Coal
Company has made several expert
ments in extracting oil from the can
mel coal they produce, and have been
much encouraged in the results Sc
cured, but was not in position to carry
on the proper tests necessary to work
out any dye process or to treat the
oil in any methods after extracting 1t.
For these reasons the coal company
has not gone further into the field
in which the company will work.
In the laboratory already Mr.. Camp
bell has worked out six colors, black,
blue, green, red, purple and yellow,
the primary colors, and Dr. Gage said
that by mixing these primaries any
desired color or shade could be secur-
ed, but that the Pearsite Company in
tended to manufacture only these pri-
mary colors for shipment in bulk lots
and let the jobbers distribute the pro-
ducts in smaller quantities and work
the original colors into other desired
shades.
rials that have been treated by the
new process dyes. have been given to
DR.. Thomas H. Norton. government
expert investigating the chemical and
dye stuff situation, but report from |
New York several days ago was to
the effect that he had not had time to !
examine the new product. To make the
production profitable in this country 1t
may be necessary to call on Congress
to provide some new legislation to pro-
tect the baby industry. as the German
doubtless will make
the same strenuous efforts to crush |
out all competition, after they have
their job of warning, as they
have done In the past, experts say. DR..
Norton in the New York interview
that there may be few col
Drs imported in small quantities for
which possibly the present tariff of 80
per cent ad valorem was not adequate.
and was of the opinion that Congress
should grant absolute and unqualified
statutory protection from underselling
ln the part of foreign competing rivals
'ather than by interfering with exist
ng tariff rates" He emphasized that
he initial cost of dyestuff companies
n America would be heavy and must
,e reckoned with, but that eventually
he cost OF productions here would be
'educed constantly. s
One OF the unique features Of the
lew Camel City plant is that in this
Instance coke is the by-product Of the
process and what is the regular by
,roduct In a large majority OF the OPP 4
,rations where coke Is made is the
product of this new plant. n