The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-07-22

plate of lime in its natural unacid-
ulated form.
That great all,wise and emnipo-
tent being, whom we call God, in the
munificence Of his provident wisdom,
created and perfected by and with
animal life-and then by petrifac-
tion stored and grouped into minable
quantities the deposits of animal re-
mains phosphates just as all find
them in our mines now, TO be used
in our own times just as we are using
them to produce forage and grain
crops to re-create every form of life
both animal and plant, to continue
and maintain the cycles of life and
thus there is and must always be
immortality, imperishable life in all
creation.
Man because of chemical research
lsuperinduced by a spirit of a more
or less wreckless speculation, or
Basil Valentine-in the end of the
18th century-all of which is in CO.
operation with Gods own provi-
dences, by experimentation discov-
cred that by acid treatment the solu-
bility of phosphates might be precip-
itated and in the chemical expert
ment, too, he discovered that with a
properly blended admixture of sui
phur and pyrites acid
can be made at possible nominal
cost of say SO the long ton, and by
the same process of research and
chemical experimentation he found
that by mixing one ton Of sulphuric
acid, cost SO (before the European
war; with one ton of raw or ground
| phosphate of say 81 per cent. B. P.
H., cost $4.40 the long ton, or, to
make reader reckoning So the long
ton, he had produced two long tons
or 44SO pounds Of acid phosphate at
a total cost for the two tons after
manipulation and complete, of say
$8-for the two tons. This acid
phosphate selling at the acid chem
bers for never less than So the ton
or SIG for the two tons, produced
by an actual manipulation of So
worth or cost price of the materials
used,
1t is a matter of little or no won
der at all that the stocks and bonds
of acid chambers are not generally
listed on the stock exchanges of do
nestle and foreign markets even in
stress of war times. 1t occurs to me.
however, even in the face of the
truth so we'll known to even our
children that no laboratories, or acid
chambers have ever been operated or
even dreamed of in Asia or darkest
Africa, the countries in which the
most luxuriant plant and animal
life odes now and has for centuries
obtained and fiourished and contin-
ues to do and from which these vast
supplies of phosphates Of lime must
be had to nourish and to sustain
their supreme production of plant
and animal life. That even the lay
man in agricultural, animal and hor-
ticultural propagation and produc-
ton would realize that raw, pulver-
lied phosphate, to give the best re-
suits and pay greatest and full
weight profits are, and in nature
must be, superior to any by artifi-
cial process, calculated fertilizers Of
any character at all.
Since my birth | have been in
close proximity to phosphates-as
mined and manipulated-and con-
tinuously since my discovery of
lphosphates in 1885, in Florida,
have as civil and mining engineer
been in active touch with every
phase of the phosphate industry and
to degree as an amateur chemist.
have been giving much Of my time
to the experimental investigating of
its possibilities and / purpose in the
near future giving series OF lee
lures or raw pulverized phosphates