Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — Notes From Commerce Reports. [ARTICLE]

Notes From Commerce Reports.

A German patent has been granted to H. Stefferia for making a lubricant from beet sugar molasses. American interests are about to erect factories in China for the manufacture of dried and desiccated eggs. The Krupp works are making a burglarproof safe, constructed of steel, which required one and one-half hours with an oxyacetylene flame to produce a hole two inches in diameter in a plate one and one-half inches thick. The government oil fields of Chubut, Argentina, produced in 1914 more than 275,000,000 barrels of oil, which was refined there. The world’s coffee production in 1914 was 893,000 tons, a decrease of 92,000 tons from 1913.