The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-04-03
FATE OF BREWERIES
IN The DRY STATES
QUEER USES BEING FOUND
FOR BOOZE PLANTS-ONE
DOES DUTY AS CHURCH.

What is becoming of the breweries
in the dry" states?
Quite aside from any controversy
raging over the rights and wrongs,
the advantages and disadvantages of
prohibition law, the economic ad-
Justments which follow the enforce
ment of such law are interesting,
and nowhere is the change more rad
zeal than in the case of the brew
cries left stranded high and dry as a
bone dry calm succeeds the storm
of prohibition referendum.
One Brewery Now a Church.
After an exhaustive investigation
of converted" breweries, the prize
for the most thorough conversion
must be awarded to an ex-brewery in
Flint, Mich. This brewery has been
turned into a Methodist church,
use for which it is safe to say it was
never designed by its builders. But
Methodist congregation saw in it
building suited for their purpose, and
when the state went dry and the
brewery was offered for sale they
bought it.
Another brewery that has turned
from the manufacture of beer to
widely foreign purpose is one in Chi
cago that has become a hospital. The
Illinois conference of the Lutheran
church paid 100000 for the build
ing to use for hospital purposes.
Western Brewers Resourceful
In Olympia, Wash, an ex-brewery
is in the dairy products business, and
in Bellingham, Wash, the farmers
got together and bought the brewery
to use for a cooperative creamery.
The largest brewery in the state was
IN Seattle. That brewery has worked
out a process for producing a fine
grade of table sirup from cracked
rice, and is changing its machinery
to go into the new line of business.
A former brewer in Aberdeen is now
canning clans; another in Spokane
is brewing vinegar.
The cOmmonest use to which brew
cries are put when the state goes dry
is the manufacture of ice, or for cold
storage warehouses. Few changes
are needed to make them serve such
a purpose, and reports of breweries
now in the ice business come from al
most every state. Packing plants
also frequently replace breweries,
and SO do creameries.
A Case in Colorado.
Perhaps the most interesting of all
the converted breweries is the Coors
brewery, in Golden, Col. The found
er of the Coors brewery came from
Germany more than 40 years ago, and
set up his plant in Golden The brew
cry throve and grew into a heavy in
vestment. Then came prohibition.
The sons of Mr.. Coors had expect
ed to succeed their father, and one of
them had studied chemistry for years
in Germany with an idea of probing
into the ultimate constitution of beer
and improving it if possible. Just
after the passage of the prohibition
law in the state, one of the young
COors ran across some local clay that
was being used to make cheap brick.
His chemical training told him that it
was high grade stuff, and he convert
ed department of the brewery into
a factory for fine porcelain. 1t is said
that he has produced porcelain which
was never before equaled outside of
Germany and Austria. Meanwhile,
another Coors turned the rest of the
brewery into a matted milk factory.
1t would be possibel to prolong the
list of novel uses for old breweries
almost indefinitely. They are making
ice cream, yeast, dry cells, butter,
soap, chemicals, moving picture film.
paint, varnish-everything from arti-
fetal ice to bottled loganberry juice.
Furthermore, they are also making
money.