MONEY IN WASTE HARDWOOD.

Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 7

MONEY IN WASTE HARDWOOD.

All the world's woodcutters might, be millionaires if they knew how to gal her up lh" twelve baskets of industrial crumbs as a distilling plant in a Michigan town. This esiablKhmeiii has a capaeitv ~i' !>n cords ni haidwood a day, Ihe b.es. ! ree ', ops, and ol her hardwood offal from logeing and lumbering opera I i.ms. l-'roin one cord of l his material lh,:,- is made |o gallons of w I ah elm!. :>'< i, p.-r conl . being pure. "Ml lib. of acetate of lime—quicklime being added for i his purI \ erv proflucl of !he W mid e.\copt, i he chare..al \<;\> ses oil in I he form of • •as. and m reduced Ic, disl illat ioll. Some irr.'du.il-l" :;:■'- and a lit He Ia r pcdiici are used as fuel. Nothing is io> i The al vim! is wmi hj half a crown a gallon. '! !:,- aclate of lime e vv ort Ii a | ieiin.v a p. mud . aml the eh.ii coal i- win'. is liv epence a bushel. | he v .due ol lime ii: ed is w oil ll not nv i-r loud hj of Ihe v alue of the ace!::!.' The value nl Ike final produel ~i the cord ol refuse wood is th.-refoie not far from IT' Ills The |,|-0,-ess is mil expeii! i\ e. The plant . i inning al full oupncil v . will I urn out a pmiluct dailv worth C'J.iJ Iriim material I hal has hut lilt Ic : n reial cable in -it •■ v rude form.