Abstract
UNDER the title 1934 in Chemical Review the following paragraph in Industrial trial and Engineering Chemistry, 27, 6, (1935) foretold the beginning of the chemical era in the Southwest: “An important industrial event of the year was the completion of the great new plant of the Southern Alkali Corporation at Corpus Christi, Texas. Following tests, begun in September, the plant swung into full production the first of November with a capacity of 500 tons a day.... This enterprise, representing a 7 million dollar investment, is the first alkali plant in the Far South....” On Dec. 26 in this same year the new plant of the Mathieson Alkali Works (now Mathieson Chemical Co. began operations at Lake Charles, La., manufacturing soda ash and caustic soda. Nineteen thirty-seven saw the chlorine plant of the Solvay Process Co. at Baton Rouge, La., go into operation, and in 1938 Southern Alkali added a 50-ton electrolytic chlorine unit to its ...
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