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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYKUM. UTAH L- -r IIRACLBjS y Goethe, the Great German Poet, Visits Saarbrucken Forest and Discovers the Philosopher of Coal (Told In Eight Sketches) By JOHN RAYMOND No. Ill THE PHILOSOPHER In 1771, there lived in the forest near Saarbrucken, in Germany, a chemist named Stauf. He was an eccentric old man who had an idea, far ahead of his times, that many things beside coke could be obtained in the combustion of bituminous coal. Stauf had constructed a number of ovens over a burning mine and treated coal so that he obtained oil, pitch, coke and soot. That was quite a forward step and although he lived in the depths of a forest the great minds of Europe heard of his work. In fact, Goethe, himself made a pilgrimage to the ovens of the chemist and in his autobiography wrote a striking comment on his visit to the Saarbrucken forest: Ready and glad to pour his complaints into a human ear, the lean decrepit, little man, with a shoe on one foot and a slipper on the other, and with stockings hanging down and repeatedly pulled up in vain, dragged himself up the mountain to where the pitch house stood which he had built himself and saw with grief now falling into ruins. Here was found a connected row of ovens in which coal was to be freed from sulphur and made fit for use in the iron works; but at the same time they wished also to recover the oil and pitch, and indeed, did not want to lose the lamp black, so that all failed together on account of the many ends in view. Goethe, who dubbed the chemist of Saarbrucken Kohenphilosoph or the Philosopher of Coal, wrote his commentary less than a century and a half ago. What would be his comment today could he enter one of the great American plants where almost unlimited numbers of p.oducts are obtained from the distillation or partial combustion of coal. Stauf certainly was one of the pioneers, but it appears that the Chinese used coke as an article of commerce more than 2,000 years ago, far-seei- OF COAL 'without dreaming of the immense value of the waste product, coal tar. In the Middle Ages it was manufactured for use in the arts and for domes-- , tic purposes. The earliest record of coking coal in a regular oven was in 1620, when a patent was granted in England to Sir William St. John for making coke in a bee hive type of oven. Later patents were granted in England, Scotland and Germany, and finally in 1817, we find Isaac Meason making coke in the ground in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. That was the crude beginning of one of Americas key industries, for from these bee hive ovens, wasteful as they were, grew the great modern plants that astonished the world during the war by their production of poison gases, high explosives, fertilizers and other vital necessities. In times of peace these plants produce dyes and great quantities of intermediates for the manufacture of other commodities. In times of war they are easily converted into strongholds of defense. You will remember that it was an English boy who discovered the possibility of manufacturing dyes from coal tar but England let the great chance slip through her fingers and as a result she found herself in a bad way when war broke out in 1914. It was humiliating for the United States to be caught napping and to be compelled to beg Germany to sell us dyes to color our stamps and currency but England found herself in a far more serious situation. She had no dyes for her uniforms or flags, and no drugs for her wounded. She could not sell to the former German markets because she could not color her textiles. She could not send sufficient high explosives or gasses to the front because she lacked the essential coal tar crude. But England will not be caught asleep again. She has placed an embargo on foreign dyes and is working with all her strength to develop her own chemical industry. (Released by The Institute of American Business, New York) ty of making it in their factories. They are now contemplating a trial of this kind of cheese with the Published Everj Friday at Hyrrnn idea of increasing the income from Utah. their herds. Under present market J. A. WAHl EN. Publisher. conditions, says the department, factories making Swiss cheese may biing in returns considerably larger than by making Cheddar cheese. UTAH STAIEMUSSCClAIlOrt South Cache Courier Cheese Making in Star Valley A POEM Tne New Year. 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Herds of cattle the mountains. LOGAN, UTAH ' Clifford Stimpson. graze there in the summer, and the 7th Grade, Lincoln School. farmers and ranchers put up hay for winted feed. For a long time beef was about the only product, but in recent year the farmers, cows and a few using ..beef-typbeen have making cheese Holsteins, a concentrated product that can be transported out of the valley without much difficulty. One company now has 6 factories and another has 3, all of which are making Cheddar sheese. As a result of the work done by the United States Department of Agriculture in improving the methods of manufacture of Swiss cheese, tie people is Star Valley asked for a lepresentive of the department to visit them and discuss the desirabili to Serve Smith Bros. Lumber HYRUM, UTAH Co. PHONE 19 asgaMBEHOKiMB |