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Volume 6
MARCH 20, 1928
Number 6
St. Louis as an Industrial Center of storage batteries. Zinc also is a major product of t h i s district, Geographic location, proximity to perhaps a unique number and zinc oxide, lithopone, Ozark white, and other zinc-containing o f raw materials, and a b u n d a n t t r a n s p o r t a t i o n facilities are pigments are manufactured in large quantities. t h e leading factors in t h e present development of the St. Louis Missouri produces more baryta t h a n all the rest of the D i s t r i c t . T h e city is a terminal for twenty-eight railroads, I'nitcd States, anil barium products such as blanc fixe, barium t w e n t y - t w o of t h e m t r u n k lines; t h e Mississippi is developed carbonate, and the above-mentioned lithopone are produced f o r barge-line transportation t o New Orleans and various ports on by several companies in the district. Another barium pigment the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and new developments will bring produced in conjunction with titanium oxide, and called " T i t l i e same service t o Minneapolis, Minn., and even Yankton, S. I). tanox," is also manuF a v o r a b l e freight factured. r a t e s a r e now in effect, T h e clays of the vSt. g i ν i n g St. Louis Louis District are fire a.n a d v a n t a g e o v e r clays, diaspores, and N e w York, Detroit, v a r i o u s g r a d e s of Cleveland, Chicago, potter's clays. The e t c . , t o all p o i n t s two oldest companies s o u t h and west of a now engaged in the l i n e drawn diagonally manufacture of firef r o m B u t t e , M o n t . , to clay refractories are iSavannah, G a . the Laclede-Christy The St. Louis Dis Co. and t h e Kvenst r i c t is well developed Howard Co. Their i n the manufacture of products are shipped Heavy c h e m i c a l s , all over the world. ^ a i n t pigments, fine The large b a u x i t e chemicals, pharma fields in A r k a n s a s c e u t i c a l s , a n d leather, produce ores for the a n d is rapidly devel manufacture of aluo p i n g an i r o n a n d minum a n d aluminous s t e e l industry'. The abrasives. About i m p o r t a n t r a w mate three hundred comr i a l s c o n t i n g e n t t o the panies produce lime of S t . Louis District— all grades, and tri poli, w h i c h comprises Misf u l l e r ' s earth, and s o u r i , the southern fluorspar are shipped lialf of Illinois, and to various localities A r k a n s a s — a r e , in the from this district. o r d e r of t h e i r impor St. Louis as a National Distributing Center for L. C. L. Freight tance : l e a d , z i n c , A few years ago the clays, b a r y t a , l i m e , St. Louis Coke and Package-car service based on the actual movement of 17.012 package cars forwarded from iron ore, coal, bauxite, Iron Co. built an iron St. Louis in September, 1027. Chart prepared by the Industrial Club of St. Louis s i l i c a sand, tripoli, furnace with the idea f u l l e r ' s e a r t h , and of utilizing I l l i n o i s fluorspar. S u l f u r i c coal as a s o u r c e of coke, coking the same u n d e r the Roberts patents. This plant acid is manufactured b y the M o n s a n t o Chemical Co., t h e General has now been increased to two furnaces, each having a capacity Chemical Co., and some of t h e zinc companies. The Monsanto of 500 tons per clay. A large bed of iron ore h a s been disCo. also manufactures o t h e r heavy chemicals such a s chlorine, covered in the land of t h e Iron Mountain Co., at Iron Mouncaustic soda, and hydrochloric acid, a s well as a n u m b e r of organic tain, Mo., and, with the development of this source of ore, pig chemicals, a m o n g which m a y be mentioned vanillin, caffeine, iron can be produced in the St. Louis District cheaper than in am coumarin, a n d other essential oils. T h e Mallinckrodt Chemical other locality. W o r k s produce fine chemicals and medicinal products. They It will thus be seen t h a t , in certain respects, t h e chemical have been established since 1867 and manufacture approximately industries of the St. Louis District are being well developed. two t h o u s a n d different chemicals for laboratory use, the drug On the other hand, there is considerable room for new industries, t r a d e , and photographers, a s well a s for o t h e r companies that arguing from the one fact that the St. Louis District consumes use fine chemicals. a great m a n y more chemicals t h a n it produces. Realizing this Among t h e new companies that are forging ahead in t h e St. fact, the business men of S t . Louis have organized a n industrial Louis District is the P r o v i d e n t Chemical Co., which is associated club with a subscription of one million dollars t o be spent with the Federal P h o s p h o r u s Co., located in Alabama. They in four years to develop the industrial possibilities of the produce various kinds of p h o s p h a t e s for use in the baking and city. This is not t o be t h e usual Chamber of Commerce propachemical industries, using the phosphoric acid manufactured ganda inviting industries in a promiscuous manner, b u t a by t h e electrolytic process a t Anniston, Ala. scientific research into t h e sources of raw materials, freight S t . Louis is t h e center of t h e lead-producing district and many rates, consumption within the district, the sources of compecompanies are engaged iu .suicîting. rcf.nirig, a n d the manufacture tition, ami possibly other developments i h a t might affect the of lead p r o d u c t s . W h i t e lead a n d red lead are manufactured industry. iui Lilt i>alat industry and litharge for USP in the manufacture
