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Title: The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Goodman, William M Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ellis, Don Carlos Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932
Subjects: Knoxville, Tenn. National Conservation Exposition (1913) Knoxville, Tenn. Appalachian Exposition (1910) Knoxville, Tenn. Appalachian Exposition (1911) Natural resources
Publisher: Knoxville, Tenn. (Press of Knoxville lithographing co.)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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cally forgotten the wasteful bee-hive oven a very large per-centage of the coke has continued to be made in the United States l)y this wastefulprocess. The following table shows the (luantities of bee-hive and by-product cokeproduced annually in the United States during recent years: Bee-Hive Coke By-Product Coke By-Product Coke Tear shori Tons Short Tons /c of Total Production 1893 9,464,730 12,850 .14 1901 20,615,983 1,179,900 5.41 1907 35,171,()()5 5,607,899 13.75 1908 21,832.292 4,201.226 1>.14 1909 33.060.421 6,254,(.44 15.M19101911l)12 34,570,076 7.138,734 17.12 27,703,()44 7,847845 22.07 32,868.435 ll,115.b4 25.27 The total production of bee hive coke in the last six years of this table was185,206,533 tons, and of by-product coke 42,U)5,512. The loss in value to thecountry from the wasteful l)ee-hive i)roce.s, was due not only to the destruction ofall the by-products,—gas, tar, ammonia, etc., in the bee-hive ovcmv but also to the *Consulting Engineer. Semet-Solvay Company.
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z g X uj zo H a: uiinzou_)<zg - z- o in UJ S IX THE FIRST EXPOSITION OF CONSERVATION 200 fact llial the l)cc-Iii\c riyvn prcxluces a smaller yield of coke. Taking- the average\-ahK ))er ton of the coal coked in the bee-hi\e oven, as given h\ the United StatesGeological Surxey for the year 112, $1.01 per l(in, the loss of coal that may besaid to have been destroyed in the bee hi\e o\en dnring these six years amomitedto $42,110,000. Using the Lnited vStates (leological v^nrvey figures again for thevalue of the by~))roducts. the total returns from the b\-products that would havebeen recoveretl if this coke had l)een made in b\-))roducts instead of bee-hive ovenswould be $266,700,000. This makes a total waste in the six years of $308,810,000,or an average waste per year oi o\-er $50,000,000 of the countrys mineral wealth. While the amount of this waste is a most serious matter tOanv one interestedin the conserwation of our countrys resources vet

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