Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-19
PUlvERlZED GOAL.
The Fuel of the Future and How 1t
RrerlareI

The Fuel of the Future and How 1t Is
Prepared and Ground.
The steel and iron men of the coun-
try. and all the rolling-nill and fur
mace men also. are interested in the
newest rival to natural gas as a saver
of fuel 1t was a modest little ex-
hitition that was given in Chester.
Pc. the other day. but it proved
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 process by
which fifty 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 addi-
tions to the array of genius collected
by Erastus Wiman, the Staten Island
millionaire. The CIlifor nian hunted
around good while in search of
man of means who would appreciate
his invention. He could have had all
the capital he wanted several years
out w ash aDIC W gCb cOdt
rulveriz d fine enough to spray into
the furnace. and McCauley's process
consists in spraying coal that is pull
verified into an impalpable pow
der into combustion cham
Der attached to the furnace
The combustion that takes place
is perfect, and it is istant aneous, and
all the gases are absorbed. so that
none of the sulphur gets into the iron
and lessons its value, as is now the
case. That is all there is to the new
process. but it does the work, provided
the coal is powdered so fine that you
can blow it around as you can the
smallest particles of dust
1t was at this stage of the proceed
fngs that McCauley met Wiman. The
man from the Pacific coast explained
his process to the Staten-Islander.
The latter said he would test it, be-
cause he had machine he got
from two Wisconsin farmers that
would grind the coal out of sight if
necessary. Two young Wisconsin
farmers were blowing when they
saw 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 princi-
pie could lie 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
machine that they called a cyclone
pulverizer. Wiman met the Ray
mOnds and they were his, and so was
their machine. The Staten islander
has fortune in the pulverizer. which
has yet 10 meet material it can not
reduce to powder. am told. and the
Raymonds were paid a fortune by
Wiman for their discovery.
So McCauley and Wiman formed a
combination. Wiman's machine pull
verified the coal and McCauley tested
his process at the big Chester works
1t was a success beyond doubt. and
had it been put into operation before
natural gas was discovered it would
have had clear monopoly of the field
1t isn't a free puff to say that pulver-
lied coal sprayed into furnace I'M
questionably saves the manufacturer
hundreds of dollars day. The
big furnace men at Chester and
out in Ohio say so. and so do
all the big guns in the manu-
featuring realm who were present at
the Chester exhibition. Outside of the
natural-gas localities pulverized coal
is going to be the fuel of the future
McCauley and Wiman are even bold
enough to say that they will confront
natural gas right in Pittsburgh with
sprayed coal. The conflict ought to
be an interesting one. Certain it is
that to the industrial world the new
process of McCauley is the biggest
item of news it has received for years
Cor. Boston Globe.