Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
CALCIUM ARSENATE
PLANT FOR GEORGIA
IS BEING PLANNED
Plentiful Supply Of Raw
Arsenic at Low Cost Prom
ised by Washington Mines,
Engineers Investigate

Plans for the erection of a half.
million-dollar plant for the manu-
facture in Georgia of calcium arse
nate are being worked out through
the cooperation of the state depart
ment of agriculture, the City club,
and the National Gold Arsenic cor
poration, owners of extensive mines
in Washington state, from which
white arsenic, the basis of the boil
weevil poison, may be obtained in
large quantities. according to ]. j.
Brown, commissioner of agriculture
Ira w. Williams. state entomolo
gist, representing the department o.
agriculture, and H. r. Kennedy, vice
president Of the Fulton National
bank, representing the City club. at
the request of Governor Walker. left
Atlanta last week for Washington
state to investigate there the mines
which would be the source of the
raw arsenic. According to Commits
sioner Brown and Edgar Watkins,
president of the City club, Mr.. Will
liams and MIR. Kennedy will verify
the reports of engineers as to the
supply and quality OF the ores avail
able. and will report on the practi-
cability OF the plans which have been
worked out to manufacture the fin
tshed product in Georgia, using Geor-
gia lime for combination with the
white arsenic.
Cheap Supply Reported
According to engineers reports
furnished the corporation which
owns the mines, and given out by
them. it will be possible by the err
ton of plant such as is planned,
tc furnish Georgia with a plentiful
supply of calcium arsenate Of high
quality at a cost not to exceed ten
cents per pound. Not only, they
say, will it be possible to supply the
needs of Georgia farmers, but il
will be possible also to ship large
quantities of the poison to other cot
ton-growing states.
Twenty to fifty million pounds
of calcium arSenate would be used
annually in Georgia" Mr.. Williams
declared, eff its selling price could
be brought within the means OF
Georgia farmers.
Commissioner Brown declared the
department of agriculture has been
untiring in its efforts to obtain for
Georgia farmers an adequate and
cheap supply of boil weevil poison.
This under present conditions, he
said, has been a. difficult matter.
However, if the plans which are
now being worked out can be car
ried through, we believe we will have
solved this problem, which is one
Of the most important in the state
today he said
Mines Also Yield Gold
The mines which are under con
sideration are a group of eight
mines, located in Washington state
According to l.. p Jubien, secretary
of the company, they have been OPP
Grated profitably for some time for
the gold ore they contain. and the
very high arsenic content of these
ores has not been utilized. Accord
ing to Mr.. Jubien. the utilization of
the arsenic will make the mines not
only more profitable to the company,
but will enable the cost of the ar
senic to be reduced considerably.
According to Mr.. Williams, the
present plan is to extract the white
arsenic at the mines, ship it to some
point in Georgia whero a source of
lime is available, and there combine
it with the Georgia lime to make
the completed product. Calcium
arsenate is principally composed of
white arsenic and lime, in the pro-
portion of about so per cent lime
and 40 per cent arsenic, Mr.. Williams
said