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OUR SLEEPING INDUSTRIAL GIANT
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articles of daily use and necessity. This juggling of atoms spells future industrial growth for the central U. S.
Nature works with catalysts called enzymes, which bring about reactions in living organisims. Our chemists, delving into the mystery of earth's contents and products, set up newcompounds, rearrange matter and out' do the soil and rays of the sun. They bring into existence hundreds — yes — thousands of materials, creating a new world and a new frontier for the industries of our land.
Yes, chemurgy puts chemistry to wofk for ages to come.
Cheap power is the basis of all industrial operation, and in our area we have potentially the cheapest power in the United States from our great oil and gas fields and" coal de' posits.
Here we have in this immediate area enough bituminous coal (based on present consumption) to last some 9,000 years, and yet we know that synthetic chemistry can make nearly ten thousand things from coal; such as aspirin, dyes, perfumes, drugs, ammonium nitrate, saccharine, TNT, plastics, acids, textiles, brushes, furniture, artificial leather, rubber and chemicals.
The 1,200,000 estimated tons of metallic manganese — not just ore but actual metal — in South Dakota, and immense beds of lignite in that area should play a big part in our defense program, and the future development of our central area. A Pilot Plant is now in operation at Chamberlain, South Dakota, to test this great body of manganese. There are also great
bodies of coal within a radius of 400 miles of Rapid City, S. D.
Chlorine and sodium made from salt are the principal tools which the chemist uses in synthesizing new prod' ucts. The other chief requirement is low power cost.
Here we have great supplies of natural gas and petroleum from which a multitude of articles of daily use can be made through synthetic chemistry.
The petroleum and gas industry of the Midcontinent has already been most aggressive in its research — bringing millions of dollars of wealth, and immense employment in our region.
But what can we do to reduce the piping of our oil and gas out of our territory which is now building industry far beyond our region?
Perhaps cheap gas, oil or coal can make electricity at as low a cost as can be done with water power when all costs are really calculated.
Power puts chemicals into active form, and one or more electrolytic plants should be built immediately as there is now a dangerous shortage of chlorine, metallic sodium and metallic magnesium.
In the tri'State area we have large
— Ferdinand E. Warren