Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-15
WAR HAS
PROVED A TONIC TO
OUR INDUSTRIES
Department or Commerce Issues
Official Statement on Benefits
Which This Country viii reap
From Conflict.

the industrial future of the country.
The blow in the face received by
American industries through condi-
tons brought about by the European
war has acted as a tonic, has forced
the nation to create new branches and
enlarge the scope of great natural re.
sources of the United States. and in.
duced manufacturers and merchants
TO eNpend their markets into foreign
helds with prospects of permanent re-
suits" says the statement.
American ingenuity has been ap-
Piled with success to the making of
articles previously imported, and
among those who have shown con
spicuous ability in meeting the situa-
ton, an important place is given to
! Thomas A. Edison, Americas scienti-
nc wizard, who has had a great part
/ ID the enterprise and initiative re.
, CURED to build at a moments notice.
some of the new American maufac-
/ lures required by the emergency.
/ A review of the chief industries
ministering particularly to the temper
airy needs Of the belligerents across
the Atlantic shows that the final out
come viii be very material addition
to the manufacturing plant of the
United States. Port Of this plant will
be simply anticipatory of the normal
growth of the countrys mechanical
equipment; part must lie idle in time
of peace, but it a distinct asset in the
national preparation for an adequate
defense against attack; the remainder
furnishes at once products needed in
the healthy expansion of the chemical
industry Of the country.
Less conspicuous and spectacular.
but of far greater permanent value.
is the impulse given to the manufac-
ture on American soil with American
raw materials of variety for which
we have hitherto been dependent upon
foreign skill and enterprise. In a
more or less uncomfortable way, we
have amounts of the crude material
of our farms forests. and mines 1000
miles across the ocean, and buying
it beck in manufactured form. at
vastly EXCHANGED price We have
likewise come to recognize the absurd /
ity of allowing many natural products /
of the tropics. of South Amreica. of !
the Far East to ind their way to
Europe, and of paying foreign intelli- .
gence and skill to transform them in .
20 articles of daily need in our lives. I.
American ingenuity, adaptation, i'm
ventiVe talent, scientific attainments.
and general enterprise have promtly J
rallied 20 meet widespread demands. .
and establish on our own sold the
permanent manufacture of a number .
of wares, some of minor, others of |
major Importance The return OF.
peace viii see them we'll rooted and .
able to Withstand foreign competition. /
The Bureau Of Foreign and Dome |
tic Commerce points TO the course OF
events that followed the cutting or /
by war OF the aniline imports from
Germany and the supply of potash /
from the same source, with the re-
sulting tremendous impulse given TO
the expansion Of domestic manufac- /
ture. 1t also calls attention TO the 1
fact that, side by side with the .n- /
creased production of artificial coIors.
has come the realization by dyers of [
textiles that the possibilities of the
natural dyestuffs have been sadly ne
elected during the past fe wdecades
"The facility and exactness with
which the coal tar colors can be en-
ployed, the endless diversity of tmts
and shades readily secured by their
aid have led the modern generation
of dyers 70 disregard, in great mea.
sure, those time-honored vegetable
dyes, for centuries the only available
source of color, which still give their
charm and value TO the choice prod.
ucts Of Oriental looms. The present
dyestuh famine has brought them
again into prominence. Not 90 east
ly applied TO the aniline dyes, uhey
still have their especial merits. AS
a result the American works ensaged
in the preparation of extracts from
the yellow oak of the Alleghanies.
from the logwood of Jamaica, from
the redwood OF Brazil, from the clutch
OF India, are providing in enormous
amounts che substitutes of the more
brilliant but often more fugitive hues
Of the Coaitar products
In the future natural dyestuns
will occupy more important posi-
ton in the textile world. aud a more
ample recognition will be accorded TO
the highly perfected process Of recent
years, ensuing their fastness upon the
animal and vegetable hbres. AT the
same time, we can look forward with
confidence to the evolution of a genu
inc American coal-tar color industry
"Of the domestic potash supply it
is stated that large amounts of the
compounds of this element are pre-
sent in the vast beds of kelp floating
on the waves OF the Pacific, close to
the western littoral of the country,
that each year the waters of the Pa
cihc coast are producing a crop in
which potash salts possessing a nor
NAL value OF more than S9O00O,000
are readily available for use IN agri-
culture and the arts Now dozen