Scale in Boilers.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1994, 18 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scale in Boilers.

Thk disoovery, by George Downie, of the efiicacy of EuoalyptUH for removing scale from steam boilers, has proved to be of more than ordinary value. The Downie B. I. B. Co., of this city, to whom his many patents from different countries have been assigned, have already built up a thriving industry that gives promise of attaining much larger proportions in the near future. At their works at Piedmont they have already manufactured nearly 100,000 gallons of the preparation from the eucalyptus for removing scale. About half of this has been shipped East and to Europe, where it is being introduced in the market. A majority of the boilers, both on land and on steamboats on this coast, are now using the preparation, and the engineers speak of it in very high terms. A good scale remover has long been nought by engineers, and if this preparation is what it appears to be, it will be gratifying to know that the disoovery waß made by a Cahfornian. The company propose to do their manufacturing entirely in tho State, and if they do they will build up an industry of considerable importance to us. Ah a by-product the essential oils of the Eucalyptus Globului are being distilled. These oils are coming to be used to considerable extent in medioine, particularly in Germany, where the supply hay been corning from Australia. —San Franc itco Newt Lettei .