The American People Waste More Fortunes than Other Nations Make–The Shoreditch Experiment in England–The Tonner System of Germany–Millions in Ashes–Coal Fortunes Waiting to be Picked Up–Astonishing Possibilities in Irrigation–Tons of Tin Thrown Away Every Day–$5,000,000 Lost in Sulphur Every Year–A Fortune Waiting a Stovepipe Inventor–Enormous Waste of Gold and Silver.
The American nation is a wasteful one. Every 12 months by neglect, poor economic system and extravagance, materials is misplaced which if saved could be sufficient to make many individuals wealthy. There are fortunes in ashes, rubbish, sewage, and cinder piles. Why discover new fields when the previous is but unworked? Here are a number of methods by which capital could be expended with a certainty of fast and enormous income:
906. WASTE OF SEWAGEThe wasteful strategies of civilization trigger the destruction of by far essentially the most priceless of all our fertilizers, which passes out of our sewers into the ocean, and is misplaced. It is estimated that the quantity in New York City alone is price over $5,000,000 yearly. In Germany, what is named the Tonner system saves this richest of fertilizers; and the time is ripe for some one on this nation to avoid wasting this huge waste and make himself many occasions a millionaire within the Book of Wealth.
907. WASTE OF COAL ASHESTwo hundred million tons of coal are consumed yearly on this nation. About one-half of this quantity goes to ashes. It is secure to say that, after all of the cinders and slag have been sifted out, there are nonetheless 100,000,000 truck hundreds that are worse than wasted, as they threaten to hinder the free navigation of our harbor. Coal ashes have a price as a fertilizer. Even on the low cost value of twenty-five cents a load, we have now an combination of $25,000,000 misplaced by this careless waste. The time will come when some enterprising companies, with means for gathering and distributing this refuse, will make fortunes by its sale to farmers and gardeners.
908. WASTE OF GARBAGEShoreditch, inhabitants, 124,000, a borough of London, by a brand new system for the disposal of rubbish, referred to as the Dust Destructor, saved in a single 12 months $11,000, or sufficient to defray the expense of its electrical lights. What previously value eighty cents a ton for barging, is now finished by the brand new system for thirty cents. In New York City (not the Greater New York) the variety of truck hundreds final 12 months was 1,582,287, and it’s estimated {that a} related system, rather than the one which now prices the town ninety-four cents per load, would save $712,132, equal to the curiosity at six per cent. on a capital of $11,868,675, or greater than adequate to mild the entire of Manhattan Island.
909. WASTE OF SULPHURAttention has lately been referred to as to the big waste of sulphur which is happening within the copper furnaces of Western mining cities. It is alleged that the annual waste is 128,000 tons. The value of sulphur is $32 a ton. Where is the person who will cease the pouring out of this huge amount of toxic vapor upon the environment, save the big waste of priceless materials, and make for himself a huge fortune? The lists are open.
910. WASTE OF TINThousands of tons of tin cans are every day thrown within the garbage heap. It is believed that by therapy of sulphate the tin could also be recovered and once more utilized. It is a query whether or not the identical quantity of money now invested in tin mines, if put to this novel use, wouldn’t be the higher paying funding. It is estimated that there are two cents’ price of tin in an average-sized can. Cans might be collected at a value of fifty cents per hundred, or $5,000 per million. If we estimate the chemical strategy of recovering the tin at as rather more, the whole value could be $10,000 per million cans. Worth of the tin recovered at two cents per can, $20,000. Profits, 100 per cent.
911. WASTE OF HEATIn our current programs of heating, from one-fourth to one-third of the warmth passes up the chimney and is misplaced. Could not some technique be perfected by which this might be saved? It could be a fantastic boon to the poor, who want to avoid wasting each pound of coal, if this might be finished. We recommend as one plan a stovepipe radiator–two pipes, open at high and backside, traversing the vertical leg of the smoke-flue, by the use of which the air of the room shall be taken in at one finish and despatched out on the different. There are no less than 100,000 flats heated by steam. A system which is able to add one-fourth to the warmth of those rooms will likely be a cloth blessing. There needs to be tens of millions within the invention.
912. WASTE OF LANDJudge Emory, at a latest irrigation conference, acknowledged that the arid and semi-arid lands of the United States are one-half as massive as all our area, besides Alaska. It is estimated that good houses, match for 75,000,000 to 150,000,000 folks, might be made by irrigation. This system is but in its infancy. In a number of years lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} will likely be invested in making our desert lands “blossom as the rose,” however like all different enterprises, first on the sphere would be the first in fortune.
913. WASTE OF GOLD, SILVER AND IRONThe current clumsy strategies of extracting the ore of metals should quickly be outmoded by a extra economical system. To say that there are $100,000,000 price of gold and silver within the refuse piled up across the mines could be a lot beneath the precise figures. The loss in iron and different metals, owing to the identical trigger, is totally incalculable. The latest discoveries in magnetism level to the answer of the issue and the utilization of the waste. It will not be unimaginable that the electro-magnet comprises extra gold for its fortunate inventors than all the mines of the earth will yield to operators throughout a single 12 months.
