Dodge City times., 1889-05-30
Row PetroIe Puol.

Below We give description Of a new
fuel which does away with coal At say
ing OF fifty per cent. The following is
taken from tho st. Paul MIMI Pioneer
Yesterday evening at the Holmes hotel
occurred practical evaporation test Of
this wonderful invention. The test was
made by several expert engineers, Officers
of the National Association of Stationary
Engineers and in tho presence Of gentle
men who reside here and in adjoining
states who came here to investigate the
subject. The boiler under which the fuel
was tested is of the HaXtun make, and
supplies 90 horse power engine. One
thousand pounds of the petrole fuel kept
the engine in operation four and one
half hours-from 7:30 to 12 o. m The
same period is one ton. or 1900 pounds,
ii being the time when the two elevators
are busiest, and four hundred incandes-
cent lamps are burning.
Ii this fuel can be put upon the market
at the price claimed by its inventor, it is
a saving of 50 per cent of the price of
coal for steam making purposes. 1t
burns freely; makes an intense heat; is
clean and compact to handle, and burns
without leaving climbers or other objec-
tionable refuses
When the public is assured that a fuel
greater in strength and purity than the
anthracite coal of Pennsylvania can be
had at comparatively small cost, made
from sawdust peat. ignite, straw, corn
Eusks or waste of the mines, thus con-
verting that which now has the least in
to the highest value of any known fuel.
il will be readily appreciated how great
the importance which such an industry
would attain IN this city and it's trIbuta-
ries. Impressed with its Importance and
assured that the enterprise offers unusu-
al inducements for profitable investment,
a number Of capitalists are negotiating
for the exclusive right to control its man
ufacturc in this and adjoining states.
Personal investigation has proven to
them that one ton of patrole fuel is equal
in life, heat. etc. To two or three tons of
bitumnous or soft coal The machinery
for its manufacture is inexpensive. and
the fuel can be made in every hamlet,
village, town and city in America, thus
saving transportation, the cost of which
SO augments the price of common facl.
Nothing has so retarded the industry
of manufacturing in the great northwest
as the cost of fuel. which, happily. this
great invention promises to remedy, in
addition enabling the residents of the
prairie states to supply the next great
staple to bread at small cost and trouble.
An exhibition plant is now in opera
ton here at Robinson & Mead's factory,
foot of Laurel and Dupont avenues The
public is invited TO visit 1t and see the
petroie fuel made
The following Is a full and careful re-
port of the test made at the Holmes hotel
by the expert engineers, showing results
obtained under the same boilers by the
use of soft coal and petrole fuel on differ
ent evenings. May the eth and 11th.
MINNEAPoLIs. Mimi. May II. M.
Nirdlinger. Esq. president of the Petrole
Fuel Company: The following are the
date of trials made with petrole fuel and
Illinois lump. Streator third vein coal.
made at the Holmes hotel on May and
II. 1899: During the trials the boiler
was worked to its full capacity: