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expend $zo,ooo on improvements and additions t o their buildings. The main building will be increased to 7 0 x 300 feet. When the additions are completed, the capacity will be I O O tons of acid phosphate daily. J . G. Eubanks is the president of the company, which has a capital stock of 3150,000. -
Work has begun on the foundation of the new fertilizer plant, 114 X 135 feet, on the site purchased b y the Central Chemical Co., Hagerstown, Md., in the northern suburbs along the Cumberland Valley Railway. The new plant when completed will have a capacity of 2 0 , 0 0 0 tons a year.
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On April 28th, the Arbuckle Bros. Sugar Refinery in New York City was destroyed b y fire causing a loss of about $4oo,ooo. Nothing is known as t o t h e cause of the fire except t h a t it followed an explosion in the char house.
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Years.
Production. Quintals.
1908 1909
41 , 7 5 1 , 2 8 4 44,794,465
Increase over preceding year. Quintals. Years.
.... . 3,043,181
Production. Quintals.
Increase over preceding year. Quintals.
1910 52,500,000 7,705,535 1911 (estimated) 5 5 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 2 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0
These figures are slightly higher than those given in official statistics. In 1910 there were shipped t o the United States .over IZ,OOO,OOO quintals, as against 8,000,000 in 1909. The increase in exportation over the preceding year was 1,804989 quintals in 1909 and 4,369,196 quintals in 1910; the increase in consumption was 4,559,769 quintals in 1909 and 6,814,052 quintals in 1910. The figures relative to the stocks of nitrate on the coast December 31, 1910, prepared by a special commission, show .a total of 9,916,278 quintals. A Reuter dispatch from Santiago de Chile estimates the pro,duction of nitrates for 1911 a t 55,000,ooo quintals and the world consumption a t 53,860,000 quintals, and states that nine establishments are nearing completion which will produce I I ,000, ,000 quintals a year. DUST-PROOF CEMENT BAGS FOR AUSTRALIA.
Consul General John P. Bray, Sydney, reports that differences have arisen between the local cement manufacturers and the Wharf labors a t Sydney, over handling cement in bags, the dust from which the laborers claim injures their health. The wharf laborers have virtually refused t o handle bagged cement, which seriously hampers the trade. The output of the leading cement factory is about 36,000
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On April I r t h , Henry Pemberton, former T'icePresident of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., died in Philadelphia a t the age of 85 years. Nr. Pemberton was well known as a manufacturer, scientist and author. -
Dr. G. D. Rosengarten has been elected by the Executive Committee of the Division as Chairman of the Industrial Division of the American Chemical Society in place of Dr. George C. Stone, resigned. -
The Mitchell Varnish Works have moved their plant from Newark, N. J . , t o Camden, N. J., where they also have their -
The Casein Co. of America is erecting a plant in Hagerstown, Md., for the manufacture of dry milk powder.
CONSULAR AND TRADE
NITRATE INDUSTRY O F CHILE. Minister Henry P. Fletcher, Santiago, submits the following data relative to the nitrate industry of Chile, based upon a report recently issued by the Nitrate Propaganda Association: The production of nitrate in Chile for the years 1908, 1909, 1910, and 191I (estimated), and the increased production in each year over the one preceding, were as follows, in quintals of 101.6 pounds each:
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bags per week, of which 8,000 t o xo,ooo bags are shipped t o other Australian States. Recognizing that immediate steps must be taken t o save this interstate market, the company has made a trial shipment of cement in bags lined with paper. It is stated that the present cost of these paper-lined bags makes their use almost prohibitive, but that, if the experiment proves successful, arrangements will be made t o make such bags by machinery. As this matter may interest manufacturers in the United States, some of whom produce bags of paper stock strong enough to convey coal, i t is suggested that they correspond with the company in question (address may be secured from the Bureau of Manufactures). LITHOPONE I N GERMANY. Consul General Robert P. Skinner reports that lithopone is manufactured in some 1 2 factories, of which three are in Silesia, two in the Duchy of Brunswick, one in Thuringia, two in Nassau, three on the lower Rhine, and one in Bavaria. The capacity of these factories per annum varies between 1000 carloads a t the most important and IOO a t the smallest. In addition to its various uses in the paint trade, lithopone is also being employed in the manufacture of many rubber articles, linoleum, oilcloth, sealing wax, and artificial stone. The consumption of lithopone will increase steadily, although there is no doubt an overproduction a t this time. GERMAN IN CAN DES CENT-L AMP INDUSTRY. Official statistics of the production of incandescent lamps, now being compiled in connection with the new Government t a x upon lighting apparatus, have so far been made public only for the six months from October I , 1909, t o March 31, 1910. The following table gives the total number of the various kinds of incandescent lamps manufactured and imported. Kind of lamp. Produced. Filament: Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 , 9 9 4 , 3 2 3 Metal.. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 1 7 , 8 2 8 , 7 3 0 Nernst burners, etc. , , . . , . . . . . . . 253,456 Burners for mercury-vapor lamps. 4,541
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Exported. 8,397,756 12,303,719 141,965 1,617
Imported. 566,115 141,407 418
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MINERAL PRODUCTION O F BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The total mineral production of British Columbia for 1910, compared with 1909, as Shown in Government reports, n-as as follo\Ts: Articles. Gold: Placer., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silver.. .......................... Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copper, .......................... Zinc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 4 i i ,000 4,924,090 1,239,270 1,709,259 5,918,522 400,000
lotal.,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14,668,141
1909
1910. $482,000 5,198,505 1,282,500 1,480,000 4,972,500 184,000 -.
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