Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-06-13
PuLvERlzED COAL.

The Fuel Of the Future and How It II
Prepared and Ground.
The steel and iron men of tho c0un-
try. and all the rolling-mill and fur.
mace men also are interested in the
newest rival to natural gas as . saver
Of fuel It was q modest little ex.
hibition that was given in Chester.
Pa. the other day. but it proved
c0nclusively 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 fifty per cent If the coal now
used in furnaces and rolling mills
will be saved. and steel and iron
greatly improved in the pudding
process
NcCauley is one of the latest addi.
tons to the array of genius collected
by Erastus Wiman. the Staten Island
millionaire. The C.lifor MAN 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
ago. but he wasn't able 10 get coal
pulverized 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 Simultaneous and
all the gases are absorbed. SO that
none of the sulphur gets into the iron
and lessons its value. as is now tho
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
ings 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 a machine he got
from two Wisconsin farmers that
would grind the coal out of sight il
necessary. Two young Wisconsin
farmers were blowing when they
saw a cyclone come along safely out
OF their way. and tear . 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 be applied in machinery, il
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
q machine that they called cyclone
pulverizer. Wiman met the Ray.
monds and they were HIS and so was
their machine The Staten islander
has a fortune in the pulverizer. which
has yet &c meet material it can not
reduce v powder. am told. and the
Raymonds were paid fortune BY
Wiman for their discovery.
So AcCauley d Wiman formed .
combination. Wiman's ma. pa
verified the coal and McCauley tests,.
his process at the big Chester works
It was . success beyond doubt and
had 1t been put into operation before
natural gas was discovered it would
have had q clear monopoly of the field.
1t isn't free puff to say that pulver.
lied coal sprayed into q furnace un-
questionably saves the manufacturer
hundreds Of dollars . dax. The
big furnace men at Chester and
out in Ohio say 90. and 80 do
all the big guns in tho manu-
featuring realm who were present at
the Chester exhibition. Outside Of The
natural-gas localities pulvsrized 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
b an interesting ona Certain it Il
that to the industrial world tho new
process Of McCauley is the biggest
item OF news it has received for Years
-Gb-. Rostoa Globe.
tho sultan witnessed the nrsr ,r,n nr
the tiny locomotive and its ono car ON
ths track laid for them outside the
walls OF the capital From such :
small beginning it Is hoped that in
.'me . Morocco railway system may
ee developed -H!.ssrs:ed Weesss