Scale in Boilers.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2003, 9 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scale in Boilers.

Tm, discovery, by Georgo Downie, of tho efficacy of Eucalyptus for removing scale from steam boilera, has provod to bo of more than ordinary value. The Downio B. 1. 11. 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 tho near future. At their works at Piedmont they have already manufactured nearly 100,000 gallons of the preparation from the euoalyptus for removing scale. About half of this has been shipped East and to Europe, where it is being introduced in tho market. A majority of tho boilers, both on land and on steamboats on this ooaßt, ire now using the preparation, and the engineers speak of it in very high teruia. A good scale remover lias long been sought by engineers, and| if this proparation is what it appears to be, it will bo gratifying to know that tho discovery was mado by a Californian. Tho company propose to do their manufacturing entirely in the State, and if they do they will build up au industry of considerable importance to us. As a by-product the essential oils of tho Eucalyptus Globnlus aro boing distilled. Those oila ure coming to be used to considerable extant in inedioine, particularly in Germany, whero the supply lias been ooming from Australia. — San Francisco News Lettei .

Two yoang men walking down tho street. •'Bob, here comes Spillars." "That's all right ; let him come." " Why, the other day you dodged into a store when you caw him coming." " Yus, but you see I have managed to pay him since then.— Arhansaw Traveller.