Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-29 | Page 10 | Alcohol May Serve as Gasoline Substitute

AlCOHOl MAY SERVE SEE AS GASOliNE SUBSTITUTE Enough Material Material- rr Wasted asted in Yellow Pine District Daily t to Make Jl Gallons New cW York Tork S Sept Sopt pt S. S S. Increased In Industrial Industrial Industrial In- In value vain of alcohol and the possibility of Its substitution for tor gasoline in the near future were discussed hero today by chemists attending the tho national national national na na- na- na exposition of ef f chemical Industries Tho only fuel In sight which promIses promIses promises prom prom- to take tahe the place pl or bold hold down dorrn tho the price of gasoline is alcohol said salt Dr Arthur D. D Little of ot Boston who presided presided pre pre- sided at the conference Dr Little declared that alcohol Is the best fuel tuel for Cor Int internal combustion engines I as us which had been suggested suggested sug sug- as a substitute for tor gasoline Lanot is La not sufficiently plentiful to keep the O automobiles In this country going for tor two days daye Kerosene ho added was out of ot tho the question Dr I quoted figures to show that from 1912 to 1915 the production of ot completely denatured and md specially denatured denatured de de- de- de natured alcohol rose from Crom gallons gal gal- al- al Ions lons to gallons In a a. year He Ho asserted government restriction was ono one reason why there had hod not been a greater s-reater production He read a letter from tram Arthur IL H. Come Comey chemist at tho the Du Pont Powder company's laboratory Jn Sn whIch the chemist wrote Making alcohol from s sawdust l. Is a great commercial commercial com corn mercial success and will grow accordingly accord accord- Dr Little said that in tn the yellow pine pino district alone there is enough ush material wasted to make moke gallons of ot al alcohol al- al cohol a day There are arc tons of material available every year in this country from which alcohol alcohol- can n bo be ni Ii