Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-07
THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE.
Conl Ground I'm u Cyclone Pulvcrizer-Big
Furnace Men Pronounce 1t a Success.

FURNACE wen pronounce Ii u success.
The steel and iron men Of the country,
and all the rolling mill and furnace men
also, are interested in the newest rival to
natural gas as n saver Of fuel. 1t was a
modest little exhibition that was given in
Chester, Pa, the other day, but il proved
pretty conclusively that where natural
gas is not, pulverized coal is sure to be
ere long. j. g.. McCauley, Of California,
for that is the discoveries name, claims
to have found a process by which so per
cent. OF the coal now used in furnaces
and rolling mills will be saved, and steel
and iron greatly improved in the pudding
process.
McCauley Is one Of the latest additions
TO the array of genius collected by Erastus
Wiman, the Staten Island millionaire.
The Californian hunted around a good
while in search OF IA man OF means who
would appreciate his invention. He could
have had all the capital he wanted several
years ago, but he wasn't able to get coal
pulverized fine enough to spray into the
furnace, and McCauley's process consists
in spraying coal that is pulverized into an
lmpalpable powder into n combustion
chamber attached to the furnace. The
combustion that takes place is perfect,
and ii is instantaneous, and all the gases
are absorbed, SO that non Of the sulphur
gets into the iron and lessons its value, as
Is how he case. That's all there is to the
new process, but it does the work, pro
vided the coal is powdered so fine that
you can blow it around as you can the
smallest particles of dust.
1t was ut this stage OF the proceedings
that McCanley met Wiman. The nun
from the Pacific coast explained his pro-
cess to the Staten Islander. The latter
said he would test it, because he had n
machine he got from two Wisconsin
farmers that would grind the coal out #
sight if necessary. Two young Wisconsin
farmers were blowing when they saw q
cyclone come along safely out Of their
way, and tear a town up. They noticed
how the two currents OF air, moving in
opposite directions, knocked houses, barns
and paving stones INTO smithereens. The
thought struck one of them that if that
principle could be applied in machinery,
it would make the biggest grind in the
world. So the young men, whose name
was Raymond, and who were brothers,
went TO Chicago and invented a machine
that they called the cyclone pulverizer.
Wiman met the R,.ymonds and they were
his, and SO was their machine. The Staten
Islander has a fortune in the pulverizer,
which has yet 10 meet n material il can
not reduce to powder, l am told, and the
Raymonds were paid a fortune by Wirnan
for their discovery.
SO McCauley and Wiman formed n
combination. Wiman's machine pull
verified the coal and McCauley tested his
process ut the big Chester works. II was
a success beyond doubt. and had it been
put into operation before natural gas was
discovered, it would have had n clear
monopoly Of the field, 1t isn't a free puff
- say that pulverized coal sprayed into n
furnace unqucstiOnably saves the manu-
lacturer hundreds Of dollars q day. TIE
Dig furnace men at Chester and out in
Olio say SO, and so DO all tie big guns in
The manufacturing realm who were
present ut the Chester exhibition. Out
side Of the natural gas localities pulvcr.
izcd coal 10 going to be the fuel Of the
'utIro. NcCauley and Wiman urc even
bold enough to say that they viii confront
natural gas right in pittsburg with
sprayed coal. The conflict ought 10 be an
Interesting ore. Certain IL Is thut TO the
Industrial world the new process OF Nc
Caulcy j. the biggest iteTl If news it has
received for years Cor. Boston Globe.