The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-05-06
CHEMISTS TESTS FOR
CRE0SOTE IN RIVER
Water Taken From Three Places
Passed on. No Creosote Found.
Effort Made to Protect Water.

Effort Made to Protect Water.
As Sentinel readers viii recall,
some several weeks ago there was q
news item in these columns relative
TO the allegation about the fish which
are caught out of 1alobusha river
tasting like crcosote; and it vas also
stated that numbers had asserted that
they had seen many dead fish in the
river which they believed was because
OF u lcosote 1t WAS stated that tho
impression prevailed that the crCO-
Sute believed TO be in the river came
from the Tie Plant, three miles south
OF town. Following that news item.
there was communication appear
ing in The Sentinel of date Of March
25. over the signature OF Citizen 3,
which sought to show that the lie
Plant managers and authorizes were
a part Of the life Ci Gren2Ca coUn-
U. many Of them having beea born
and reared here. ard that they were
interested in everything pertaining
20 the general welfare and peace and
..-.s sress Of the. county. AS stated
l,..torially in the same issue IN which
citizens" communication appeared,
ne IS one Cf the best and "oSt con
servative citizens of the county, and
this paper feels sure that he would
not utter statement about any mat
ter, even though it might affect him
adversely in a personal way, that he
did not believe to be correct and
sound.
The Tie Plant officials discussed
the matter with the Editor OF this
paper, and as a means of testing the
waters Of the river, the writer Sug-
gested that water be taken from the
Yalobusha river at several different
places and sent to the State Chemist,
DR.. w. F. Hand, at the a. 4 VI. Col
lere fer analysis to see whether or
not creosote was in the river These
gentlemen readily agreed that 1t
would be well to do that, and by in
vitation. Mr.. John W. Vance and the
writer accompanied Mr.. J. j. Nchols,
MANAGER at Tie PI2nt, and Mr.. Walter
Schultz, a valued emploYe at lie
Plant and Ole Of the aldermen OF the
Citv of Grenada, or the trip when
the samples Of the Water were gotten.
Gallon tin cans were secured from
the Uoak Hardware Company. Inc
first gallon was taken from the river
lust rorth Of the rail road RIVER
bridge. The next one at the wooden
bridge across the river at BeW
Springs and the third one from the
river Just below the bridge north
and west OF the town Of Holcomb,
fourteen miles west Of Grenada. It'll
appeared that water taken from these
three different places ought TO be
fair test of the water up and down
the river between here and Green
wood. It might be stated that the
san. .ples were not taken Immediately
after a rain. however, they were
taken only few days after ral1
and the river was pretty full The
cans were sunk to a. depth Of fifteen
or twenty feet The three cars were
shipped by express to the State Chem
ist already referred to. After about
ten davs. the following report was
made by him to the Aver & Lord lie
Co. a COPY of which was forwarded
to the writer.
Below appears the report on the
test of the water taken at Bew
SPRINGS. which is in words and form
the same as for the other two tests:
mississippi State Chemical Labora-
tory
horticultural College, Mississippi
April 4, 1921
"W. F. HAND,
State Chemist"
'Analysis No. 52697"
of Water iBew Springs
.ReeeiVed GE'age9 on 8-a1-21 from Aver &
Lord Tie Co."
address Grenada, Miss
"RESULTS:"
mo phenols or cresols were found
TO be present. The method used Tor
testing this water was proved
to give positive results IN a
mixture containing one part or ere.
sol or phenol to one million parts OF
water"
(Signed) "W. F. HAND,
Estate Chemist"
Accompanying the reports on the
.ests was the following letter:
Mississippi Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, Department OF
Chemistry, Agricultural College,
Miss, w F. Hand, Ph. d. State
Chemist" 80.