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PROOFS OF LABOR BLANKS j
ON SALE AT NUGGET OFFICE I
‘HOOTCH’ MAKERS SECRETS
OPEN IIOOK TO
IMtOlllltlTIOX OFFICER*
(By Associated Press)
New York—Secrets of the
“hootch'' makers who manufacture?
synthetic whiskey or gin are as an
open hook to the government chem
ists who test the products of vio
lators of the Volstead law.
Evidence sized from rum-runners
and bootleggers is brought to them
for examination. How the chemical
tests are conducted was disclosed by
It. A. Edson. chief chemist of the
government laboraton in the federal
building. The walls of his office are
lined with shelves filled with bottles
of every kind and description con
taining every kind of beverage for
bidden by the Volstead Act.
\A string of stills seized in raids
decorates the top of the shelves and
there is a big pile of them in a cor
ner. In the past year more than
8.000 samples of liquor, good, had
and indifferent, have been tested
here and the results produced later
in the federal courts.
me ni si iniiig 10 ue iiiiiik uy i ii'1
chemists when a sample of suspected
liquor i- brought in is to test it for
alcohol. I'sually the prohibition
agents try to get at least half a pint
\if whiskey and a pint of wine for
the chemists to work on. But oc
casionally an agent comes in with a
small bottle of liquor which he ex
plains is a drink or whiskey which
he bought at a bar and had to hold
in his mouth until he could spit if
out into a bottle without being ob
served by the barkeeper. And that
When the sample"i*, large enough
the hydrometer is used to find the
amount of alcohol present. The hy
drometer is a thermometer-likp in
strument of glass with the specific
gravities marked on it. It is floated
in the sample and the markings read.
Alcohol being lighter than water the
hydrameter sinks farther in a mix
ture of alcohol and water than in
plain water. The amount of alcohol
can thus he accurately determined
by reading the markings.
Small samples of booze are tested
by means of the hydrometers A
measured quantity of the suspect
ed liquor is weighed and its weight
compared with that of an equal
quantity of water. By means of a
few computations the amount of
alcohol can easily be found. *
For rapid work on beer and wine
with small percentage of alcohol the
ebulliometer is used. The evidence
is heated and the boiling point
learned. Water boils at 100 degrees
Centigrade an dthe alcohol a'; a much
lower temperature A mixture of
alcohol and water boils at a lawer
temperature than water and thus the
chemists can rapidly calculate the
amount of alcohol.
After the test for alcohol has been
completed i nthe case of whiskey
the color of the sample is tested
Whiskey that has been held in bond
for some time has a color of its own
due to the inside of the whiskey bar
rels being charred by fire before the
whiskey is put in. The manufactur
ing bootlegger making an artificial
whiskey of grain alcohol and water
uses caramel made of burnt sugar
to color his produef.
The March reaction shows if the j
color of the whiskey sample is gen-1
uine or artificial. A quantity of amyl
alcohol slightly acidified with phos
phoric acid is mixed with the liquid
to be tested. • Amyl alcohol being
lighter than ethyl alcohol, as ordin
ary grain alcohol is called by the
chemists, raises to lh» top of the
mixture. If the whiskey is genuine
the color will mix with the amyl al
cohol and raise to the top of thf
mixture. If the color is due to car
amel it will stay in the bottom >1
the mixture. Test is made for wood
alcohol if there is any suspicion ol
Mr. Edson said that 00 per rent ol
the liquor seized by the prohibitior
agents and brought to the laboratory
to bo tested is synthetic whiskex
•made of alcohol and water and «i
little color or just plain “hootch..”
"We can usually toll whether the
stuff is genuine or not by just smell
ing of it." he explained. "The syn
thetic stuff has a distinct smell ol
raw alcohol which is not present in
genuine whiskey no matter how bad
"Lately we have tested a number
of synthetic gin. It is made of al
cohol and water with a little oil ol
juniper to give the characteristic g<n
flavor. Hut the juniper flavor is rank
er than genuine gin and 1 don’t think
anyone gels much pleasure from
dringink such stuff. The bootleg
ger usually puts in too much of the
oil of juniper.
“There is some artificial wine
seized by the prohibition agents, it
is usually made from alcohol and
waiter flavored with fruit juice of
some kind. The home-made wine
that is submitted for test is very
poor stuff. Usually there has been
insufficient fermentation of the
grapes after they are pressed and
Such wine will contain about 7 to !)
per cent or alcohol.
Most whiskies contain 40 to 50
per cent alcohol. Scotch whiskey has
less alcohol than the other whisk
ies. We have found small quantities
of creosote in some of the artificial
Scotch whiskies that have been seiz
ed. The creosote is put in to imi
“The making of home made grape
juice ies dangerous from the stand
point of the Volstead Act unless pre
cautions are taken to prevent fer
mentation and the consequent pro
duction of alcohol. The best way is
to sterilize the grapes by pouring hot
wafer over them or by boiling the
juice. There is a wild yeast present
on the grapes and floating in the air
at grape^picking time and it is the
j wild yeast that starts fermentation."
The government chemists have
even tested Chinese wine or ngkapy
to determine for the government if
it was suitable for human consump
tion. A large quantity of the wine
I consigned to Chinese merchants here
I was held up by the customs officials
on the ground that it smelled so bad
it was not fit for human consump
tion. The government’s chemists
found the wine was made from rice
spirits and a decoction of herbs.
They said it was all right for Chin
ese medicinal purposes so it was al
lowed to be brought in.
oil. STATION TO BE
OPENED AT UNALASKA
Vessels plying in the Trans-Pacific
and Alaska trade will soon be ablo
to replenish their supply of fuel oil
at Cnalaska as the result of construc
tion of tanks with a capacity of 20,
000 barrels at that point by the Al
aska Commercial Company, it was
learned in Seattle today, says the
Seattle Times of August 8. Repre
sentatives of the company said the
tanks will be supplied with bulk oil
and distillate this month, and ready
to serve vessels plying between Seat-!
tie and ports in the Orient and in
the western and Bering Sea trade.
The Alaska Commercial Company ha.s
coal bunkers in Unalaska with a
capacity of 8,000 tons, but has not
handled fuel oil or distillate in that
part of the north. The new oil I
station will be a great convenience '
for vessel* which are delayed by
storms and become short of fuel oil.
Representatives of the Alaska Com
mercial Company said a Standard Oil
tanker would make a special voyage
with oil for the new station.
The Alaska Commercial Company
has been operating In Cnalaska since
1868. The company took over the
Russian Fur Company's station in
Unalaska in that year, and at the
same time leased the Pribloff Islands
for 20 years from the government at
a rental of $1,000,000 a year.
ALASKA'S FORESTS
ItRINO ANNUAL RETURN
Juneau. Als.—According to infor.
illation from the District Forester's
office here Alaska's share this year
in the national forest receipts
amount to -e.65S.8ft. This amount
represents 35 per cent of the total
receipts from the two Alaska na
tional forests for the liscal year end
ing June 30. 1021. District Forest
er Flory pointed the fact not gener
ally known that the two Alaska na
tional forests for the past ten years
have returned in receipts an araou t
much in excess of the cost of handl
ing them, and that 35 per cent of
all money received from the sale of
timber. lease of land, etc., is yearly
turned hack to the territory to be
expended for roads and schools with
in Alaska. At no cost whatever to
the territory. Alaska received from
190*1 to 1921. as her share of the na
tional forest receipts a total of $243,
132.*1*1 for roads and school purp
In all twenty-seven states and Al
aska have received checks totaling
$619,993 from the United States
Treasury as their share of the re
ceipts from the National Forests for
the fical year ending June 30. An
additional $247,997 of the receipts
has become available for road and
trail construction by the Forest Ser
vice within the national forests of j
these same states; making a grand j
total of $867,990.
The amounts are considerably
smaller than for the previous fiscal
year, when the total was $1,652,088.
This is due largely to the concession
made by Congress to stockmen
whereby they are allowed until De
cember 1 to pay their grazing fees
due last spring. This action was
made necessary by the widespread de.
pression in the livestock business
A small portion of the reduction is
due also to a falling off in timber
sale receipts of the forests due to
business condition.
Only states or territories within
which national forests exist share in
the receipts. By Act of Congress.
25 per cent of the funds derived
from timber sales, grazing fees, spec
fail uses, etc., are returned to the
States for roads and schools. The
amount thus received is re-distribut
ed to counties in lieu of taxes, based
on the area of National Forest land
within their boundaries. In addi
tion. 10 per cent of the forest re
ceipts are spent within the counties
or districts by the Forest Service on
road and trail construction and
maintenance. This thirty-five per
cent comes back to the counties for
local development, and. Forest offi
cers point out, as the pulp resource;
of the Alaskan national forests are
more fully developed the amount
that the territory will receive will
increase from year to year.
NOTICE
New and uptodata legal forma for
Proof of Annual Assessment Work
also Oil Location blanks, Dead blanks
for geno'-al use, Special end General
Power of Attorney forms. Placer and
Quartz Location forms now on sale
at Nugget Office. Price 15 cents each
or $1.00 per dozen.
After Every Meal
Still 5c
WRIGLEY'S has steadily
kept to the pre-war price.
And to the same high stand
ard of quality.
No other fioody lasts so
(one-costs so little or does
so much for you.
Handy to carry—beneficial
in effect—full of flavor—a
solace and comfort for
young and old.
THE FLAVOR
LASTS
BIO
TEXT OF NEW ASSESSMENT LAW
Following is the full text of the
new annual assessment work law,
passed recently by the present Con
• (Publio—No. 64—67th Congress) .
(H. R. 4813.)
An Act changing the period for do
ing annual assessment work on un
patented mineral claims from the
calendar year to the fiscal year be-,
ginning July 1 each year.
Be it enacted by the Senate and |
House of Representatives of the i
United States of America in Congress
assembled. That sections 2 of “An I
Act to amend sections 2324 and 2325 j
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States concerning mineral lands," ap
proved January 22.. 1880. be, and the
same is hereby, amended to read as
follows:
SEC. 2 That section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States
be amended by adding the following
words ‘Provided. That the period
within which the work required be
done annually on all unpatented min
eral claims located since May 10,
1872, including such claims in the
Territory of Alaska, shall commence
at 12 o’clock meridian on the 1st
day of July succeeding the date of
location of such claim: Provided
further. That on all such valid exist
ing claims the annual period ending
December 31, 1921, shall continue
to 12 o’clock meridian July 1, l(f22’.M
Approved. August 24, 1921.
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