NITRIC ACID AS A
KATIONAL ASSET IN
WAR AND PEACE
It is generally overlooked that the
problem of nurlc acid tor wur pur
poses, if intelligently handled, can be
arranged in such a way as to give
us a permanent national asset for the
purposes of peace, by furnishing us
with an installation where cheap fer
tilizers can be obtuined in sulficiently
abundant quantities to bring the
yields of our acres up to what they
should be and to what they are al
ready in Europe—which, after all,
means cheaper food. The importance
of this can best be illustrated by the
statement of Mr. F. J. Tone, former
vice-president of the American Elec
trochemical Society, that, if all the
power of Niagra Falls were utilized
for making electric current, then the
latter would be able to convert enough
nitrogen of the air into fertilizer to
increase our wheat crop 3,000.000
bushels every twenty-four hours.
As far as the matter stands at pre
sent, it is considerably more expensive
to fix nitrogen under the form of ni
trates than under that of ammonia or
cyanamid. So in times of peace the
latter ought to be relied upon, so that
in times of war it could be converted
Into nitric acid, which does not re
quire much additional installation.
Furthermore, the fact that cyanamid
requires from five to six times less
electric current for furnishing the
same amount of nitric acid than it
the car process is U3ed means much
as to the required size of power in
stallation.
But now comes another considera
tion to Interfere with all these plans.
The rapid construction of our by
product coke-ovens is Increasing con
siderably our supply of ammonia in
this country. It is promised that, by
1917, from this source alone we shall
have annually 400,000 tons of sulphate
of ammonium. This, of course, in
volves that our steel production, on
which the coke industry is dependent,
should keep on at the present rate.
ALASKA NOTES
(From Our Exchanges.)
Whitehorse sportsmen report it
great scarcuy ot gume birds in that
vicinity.
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It is reported that Editor Stanhope
ot the Yv ruiigle Sentinel has sold that
publication to C. C. Packard, former
ly of Anchorage.
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. The flrstsixty-six lota recently sold
at auction m the federal audition to
the. town ot Seward brought $20,626, j
or an average of about $311 per lot.
On her last trip north the ateumer
Alaska lout one of her unchurs at
Bllauiar, where she stopped to ualoau
a quantity of freight.
A new government wireless sta
tion has been esiabiished at Fort Yu
kon anu will be ready for service
about October 1.
The Berry dredge on Mummauth
creek Is reported to be working to
capacity and the output is said to he
fully up to expectations.
The steamers Jefferson and Dol
phin of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany's fleet will be operated exclu
sively in the cannery trade next year.
The 60-horse power launch of W.
H. Dryden drifted ashore at Seward
recently during a high wind, and
pounded a hole In her bottom.
J. Spencer, a well known resident j
of Seward and a large property owner
there, died recently in Portland, Ore
following a surgical operation.
The Alaska Steamship Company
has announced that a new steamer
will be built to take the run of the
steamer Dora from Seward to the
westward.
T. IX Connor, until recently a res
ident of Treadwell, has taken a posi
tion with a mining company in Peru,
and will have charge of the extrac
tion of the metals from the ores.
Mike Hokitch is reported to have
purchased the Interest of Fred John
son in the Scannel dump on Chatnn
ika for $8,000. Both men were in
terested in the dump.
The fishing schooner San Juan, of
the San Juan Fishing Company, and
the gasboat San Jose are reported to
have gone on the rocks at Puffin bay,
at the south end of Baranoff Island.
Z. J. Loussac, the Anchorage drug
gist, has purchased the stock and fix
tures of the Northern Drug store at
that place. The store wa3 a branch
of the Cordova store by that name
Despite the fact that a number of
the ghlldrcn of Seward are suffering
from whooping cough, the attendance
at the public school on opening day
was 3ixty eight.
I .ate schedules i3sued by the Alaska
steamship company show that the
steamers Mariposa and Alameda will
call at Skagwuy during the win'er
months, contrary to the U3ual winter
schedule.
Thu Giant Powdeg Company, of
San Francisco, has purohased a tract
of two acres of land at Anchorage
and will establish a branch magadne
there. A. H. Clough Is the repre
sentative of the company there.
O. E. S. Annual Thanksgiving ball.
A. B. Hall. Tickets $150.
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