Show CHEMICAL MIRACLES The boys in our schools who have a taste for forthe forthe the study should pursue the study of chemistry with never diminishing zeal All and and all it constitutes constitutes con cou the worlds world's foremost industry Think of it t. t Our imports of chemicals dyes and drugs drugs' exceed exceed ex ex- in value annually Very much ol ot that hat should be produced at home the material bc bc- lug ing ng ample See what has been done with cotton cottonseed cottonseed cottonseed seed during the past twenty five years through chemistry The same has been done with corn and with crude petroleum And while refined an antI l illuminating illuminating hut hut- oil has been produced most valuable byproducts byproducts byproducts by by- products have likewise been utilized The production ti tion ion n of paper and w wood od pulp is a chemical process so Sc also the conversion of hides into leather so oO also the manufacture of glass and soap and steel s so also the of the grape malt and distilled liquors The field is almost limitless Moreover mil millions ons and tens of millions of dollars worth of J material is thrown away annually now which with witha a little more knowledge might be made valuable even men as cotton seed has been during the past thirty years ears That reminds us that right here is perhaps the very best spot on earth to establish a great chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal laboratory Great Salt Lake is a vast deposit t ry of valuable chemical properties Then near here iere is the purest sand in the world for making glass Again we have near here herc beds of clay clar that carry 40 per cent aluminum We have ha fine kaolin rock salt in ledges antimony bismuth and plenty more valuable minerals There should be a great chemical laboratory here and great glass glassworks glassworks glassworks works anI ana pottery works equal to the finest in France Salt Lake has not begun to grow yet |