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Show DENATURED ALCOHOL. A northern exchange 13 Inclined to feel that no measure passed by congress con-gress In recent years Is or more benellt to tho mass or the peoplo ir, tho practical prac-tical results are equal to tho theoretical theoretic-al possibilities, than tho new denatured dena-tured alcohol act. Denatured alcohol is grain alcohol, rendered unlit for uso as a beveiago by the addition or some denaturat such as wood alcohol, crcosoto or othor poison. ARcr the first or the year the government will allow Its manufacture and sale, free or all tax. The Immense Importance of tho measure will bo ready understood when wo consider that the product may bo manufactured for less than 12 cents per proof gallon and has Illuminating value almost 100 per cent above ordinary kerosene and Is CO percent irioro productive In heat. When it Is freely predicted that Its uso will revolution! the production of light, heat and power In the United States, this Is but one field of Its usefulness. use-fulness. Almost cvciy branch of manufacturing linds It necessary to use alcohol In quantities either great or small even at the present prohibitive cost. Among tho many Industries and arts to which alcohol Is essential may be mentioned, furniture manufacturing, manufactur-ing, hats, electrical apparatus, pianos and organs, whips, harness, boots and shoes, photographic materials, chemlc- y.-. als and an almost Intcrmlnablo list could bo added. Whllo a consideration or Its multitudinous multi-tudinous possibilities is entertaining, It Is Its manufacturato and production that 13 or great Interest to an intense agricultural section llko Cacho County. Coun-ty. While it may bu manufactured Irom a number of sources, cornraln and potatoes aro practically the only raa torlals used commercially in Its production. pro-duction. From a bushel of corn C gallons or 03 per cent pure alcohol can be distill-ol; distill-ol; from tho gram, barley and wheat, about an equal amount has been derived. de-rived. ' About '11 per cent of tho potato top-resents top-resents alcohol, going" two or more gallons gal-lons to tho bushel. The cost of manufacture manu-facture In Itself Is very low, not overt threo cents per gallon. All grades and quahtlesof the raw material may bo used thus saving to the agriculturist the hitherto unsalable unsal-able portion or the corn. To a banner grain and potato country coun-try like this section there can be no doubt that the now legislation will be or marked benefit in tho years to come. Thcro have been times hero of proline pro-line potato production when the farmer farm-er could get nothing ror his crop and tnis new kind of potato storage cer- . talnly appeals to him as It does to all .'. the new alcohol optimists of the whole cou ntry. |