The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-09-14

IN guarding valuable processes as are manufac-
turers. For example, the Chinese government is
the owner or the secret of making vermon red,
which Is held by many experts to be the most
beautiful shade Of red in the world No one has
ever been able to prOdu ce like vermillion.
Inc Turkish government, 1t appears possesses
similar secret process of inlaying precious met
ais In the hardest steel. The work is done per
tectly and deties all attic mpts at reproduction.
In 1913 1t was announced that distinguished
chemist of the imperial technical school of Mos
COW had solved the problem of making artificial
rubber, and that he could sell the new product at
about 30 cents pound Yet the price of rubber
remains pretty much the same If not more. The
reason may be found by examining the patent
once records. In the last decade many hundreds
or patents for artificial rubber have been taken
out substitutes have been made from petroleum
from coal tar, turpentine, peat, from nitrated lin
seed oil and by treating cereals with phyalin
The latter invention created a considerable sen.
sation so long ago 1906 yet Judging nv the
constantly increasing demand for the natural
product 1t has had little effect upon the real rub
Der market
The chemist working In his laboratory. can
take any substance and analyze It. that is break
II up into Its original constituents, and tell YOU
what they are and how much of each element
the substance in question Is composed of: but
when 1t comes TO building up the original sub
stance out or its prime constituents he is at sea
FOR the most part BY dint of long and patient
experiments or perhaps by pure chance no may
succeed In reproducing some few natural products
but that is rs lar he can go.
indigo blue took many years to synthetizs A
herman chemist accomplished 1t at last but tho
curious discovery made that II blended With
the natural product made from the indigo plaDt
the color obtained both more durable and
prlghter than that made by either dye alone. So
aruhchi indigo has not yet ruined the indigo.
planter.
Gutta Percha Becomes Searoar
Artificial camphor has also been produced 7, "a
now made from plne-tree turpentne. Rut tbe
chemist has not yet succeeded I'm svntbetiz,n,
gutta percha. This commodity yearly becomes
scarcer Enormous quantities are required for va
rouS purposes notably the covering OF submarine
cables ana the making of golf balls A fortune
awaits the man who make artificial mt.
percha at price that will permit II IN co,nre,,
with the juice Of the Dfchops gutta.
Cork Is another substance Of everyday usa Tho,
seems 20 defy the inventor. The only spbs,it,,,
for cork Is "aper treated with paraf7n way b.,
such a corS could not be used for a hottIa Of ,-j
SO far nothing has been artifcally made IN com.
pete with the bark of the cork oak
At Delhi, in India. stands an ancient iron moi,
ument which, though exposed to all weatbers
never ruStS or decays. Yet II has no pr,tac,i,,o
covering. Here is secret which would h., sinplv
invaluable TO the world. which has been discovered
by some Indian artihcer Of old and most pntor,
tunately lost At a meeting Of steel and irop
men In London, the chairman said that they co,15
face the future with complaceucy II they co,I5
rediScoyer the secret. To shlpownprs oloDs 4,
would mean yearly saving Of millions R,st
is the great enemy Of the steel ship and shs b.s
constantly to 80 into dock TO have her huu r,s,oS
with anticorroSive solution.