El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-01

o something like 50 tons every day you
I can see that the saving in this product
Islone amounts TO about $500 per diem
J In the past u floated away in the
3 gases Of the old beehive coke oven.
] understand that a great deal OF
this ammonia fertilizer is now being
/ saved in the by product ovens OF this
part Of the south II is said 10 be one
I Of our chief sources Of nitrogen. and
some OF the authorities claim that
there is q sufficient amount of IL IN a
single acre OF bIJuminous coal four
feet thick TO maintain the fertility OF
an acre Of soil for SO years Within
the past year or so something like
1000, 900 tons of coke have been made
DO the by product ovens of the state
Of Ala bama alone, and such ovens are
now being built in Kentucky. Mary
land. Tennessee and other southern
I states In 1915 more than 5000, 600
tons Of coal were put into the bee
hive ovens Of the south and this re-
suited in a waste, IL is said. of about
$4,000 tons Of sulphate Of ammonia.
90. O0O. 600 gallons OF tar and more than
100000 gallons Of beuzoL
During 1915 the by product coke
plants or the United States made alto
-ether about $1,000. 900 gallons Of ben
FOL This rs the product which the
Germans use largely for making dyes
cOlors and medicines OF one kind OF
other II has risen greatly IN value
since AIIE n at ana TINS mas leu TO NINE
building Of many benZol plants. The
one here Is said 10 have cost some
thing like SI.00o.o00. have gone
through IL during ny stay II consists
Of great stills and other machinery.
II makes various kinds or oil from
which chemical products are formed.
including not only dyestuffs and med
icines, but also Photographic material
and important explosives.
Stag Used a. FertiIircr.
Another valuable by product Of the
furnaC es Is the Stag. This formerly
went TO waste You may see mount
aims OF 10 about almost any old smell
ing works tt defaces the landscape
auG % costs great deal 10 carry u
away and throw IL onto the dump
heap. Here az Birmingham this Stag
is crushed and ground into fertil-
izer, which sells At wholesale at so
and upwards per ton Tt Is hagged
VI like cement in little sacks Of 100
pounds each. and IS shipped over the
country 10 the farmers and garden
ers. who use II 10 increase our food
supply. The Stag is also turned into
brick This has been attempted again
and gain without success. but they
are now making a brick which is as
smooth as porcelain and almost i'm
perviOus 70 water The Stag Is also
used for ballast on railroads and in
fact. II has been turned from a loss
10 2 profit
The crushing Of this Stag for fer'U-
izer IS an interesting process The
work is done by means Of magnet.
Nr idea Of a magnet has been the
little horseshoe with which YOU lift
lacks and so elecrrify YOUR knife that
10 viii pick Up iron filings or make
them dance around over a sheet OF
white paper. They have magnets here
so powerful that they viii lift enor-
nous bodies of iron and carry them or
drop them AT viii Such magnets are
used for the loading OF the heaviest
steel rails Two Of them fastened 70
travelling crane overhead viii Tiff
ND IS of these long rails az ono time
and lay them down on the cars
Magnet Attached TO CrusH~r-
Another magnet which is also rf-
-zched 60 g. crane. is used Tor The
crushing Of limestone and sIa-. The
erusher i7 "a great round steel hsu So
heavy that 10 would require 50 horses
to haul II II II we're placed on q truck
70 he carried over a country road TIE
bali weighs Is tons. and II is as tall
as a man. Nevertheless the magnet
drops down from the crane and kisses
IL as II we're As II rises the ball
c1iuEs 10 its lips and a touch Of a
button by the man who is operating
the magnet releases the ball and II