Show RANGELY Y OIL FOR COLORS If Dye Supply Fails 9 Will ViII Be Limited to Black ai and nd v V White ite i The oil wells in the Rang ely district may yet be purr pumped IJ d to lo the full fun capacity even even before a I railroad p penetrates the ui Uintah l basin Experts claim that th the e crude petroleum is t the e very thing needed for the manufacture hire tuie of dye lye material Heretofore Americas America's cas ca's J supply of dyestuff or or at least the greater great great- great I er part of it has come from I Germany The present war huts has brought almost a famine in tit that product VI Wert p. p onnin b ts i fit feel it Since the an anwar war var started last summer sumner Ameri America ca ea has learned to manufacture a great many things that had been bought abroad and we arc are still If the waris war wm is beneficial to to this country in no other way way it will certainly help us us' us t to help ourselves in hi a gl great cat m many ny ways ways a s We Ve had Ho Ito idea we could m man manufacture m- m such things as watch crystals but we five VC are doing that now We Ve are arc also manufacturing ing drugs It was thought impossible impossible impossible im im- possible to do these things Necessity Ne Necessity Ne- Ne is just as much the mother moth moth- er cr of i invention l as she w was vas s' s when th the first st man uttered the words Avoids A dispatch has been sent from with vi th reference e to the threatened color famine The suggestion that fat oil aiT be used is made N re in that th dispatch IJ h which h i is is- r 37 cs ast r c tr 7 5 I R Representatives of f the American Amer- Amer lican ican textile industry are now v in 1 j on for the purpose ee of ofin in info to the a t J Brit Brit- 1 j what is said tobe tobe to tob b be a a critical tic l condition growing wf g out of the threatened c failure of the dye supply from Germany Pressure is bei being g brought t to bear to keep the t trade ade routes open for dye shipments ship ts fl 1 ports i It is estimated T Cd rO roughly that an annual o output of i worth of silk woolen and cotton goods manufactured in the United United Unit Unit- ed led States can reach its finished state only through the dyes made in Germany Of these es essential essential essential es- es dy dyes s there are re now on i hand only thirty days days' d ys' ys supply I according furn to information furn- furn I furn-I shed by the textile I tives Three ships are at this i I writing in German ports loaded Continued on Page Three I i. i i 1 Continued from Page One I c l i jl ito Am Ami i ica i- i ca valued at sufficient mci t tto to supply the American mills un Uil until un- un til tl I A August t v I IThe The processes of dye manufacture manu mane facture while not precisely secret se se- cr cret et arc ale highly I 1 hl y skilled and nd may be acquired ire and nd applied commer daily only b by long and p painstaking ing mg experimentation c me t ti t Ji ft f io i There are ne said said to toe to b be lio no few fewer er than 1200 chemists holding diplomas from the great German universities employed in the in industry in- in of making dye in Ge Ger- Ger It lt is this hig highly ny trained organization controlled by a n few big concerns which gives to Germany such power over the worlds world's textile interest I At the outbreak of the war it is said that a German owned and managed dye dyo factory located located ed cd in in England Englund was taken tal over overby overby overby by the British government but the new management has not yet been able to turn ou out t a single pound of proper German dye While progress in the United States has been slow in establishing establishing stab stab- lishing the man manufacture facture of colored colored colored color color- ed d dyes in item of black es the one I flye Iye America may be said to be DO independent and if the German supply should be shut off entirely America will literally be thrown into mourning Variants of nat natural ural wl white te and black in stripes and checks check will tend to to break the funereal monotony The materials materials entel entering ing into the manufacture of dye in GermanY Germany Germany Ger Ger- many ar are are mainly products by-products of coke The fhe st statement is made however however however how how- ever that it is from froin oil oil rather than by the too c. c expensive pensive re- re rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding re re- building of c coke le ovens that it itis itis itis is hoped to develop dye manufacture manufacture manufacture ture in America The oil interests are understood understood understood under under- stood to be pioneering very actively actively actively ac- ac for d dye e materials an and the temporary misfortune of ola of-a a shortage shortage short short- c age in colors for silks woolens and cotton may lead ead to American Amen Ameri can an industrial independence in a ave avery avery ve very y important field 4 l rt rf r d L f l T i di j |