Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-05
North Dakota Coal Soon to Become
of as Much Value as Pennsyl-
yania Anthracite.
A Stove that Makes Ignite Equal
to BituminOus Coal, Pound
for Pound.
No Difference Whether Ignite il in
the Form of Dust or
Lumps.
A Criticism Of the "Eggette" Scheme
1t Would Make too Much
Smoke and SCOT.
An Article from Capt. Groesbeck.

An Article from Capt. Groesbeck.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: In the Weekly
TRIBUNE of the 22nd inst, I find refer
ence to the practicability of making eg-
2ette coal from Ignite. May I add my
mite to the discussion? The proposition
is to crush the Ignite, mix Herewith i'm.
ported bitumen and with the aid of
machinery, compress the admixture into
eggettes. This method in it's main fea-
lures has been long enough in use to
establish its value in utilizing the slack
of bituminous and anthracite Goals, and
there is no doubt whatever of it's appli-
cability to Ignite.
The serious objections are () added
cost to the fuel laid down ready for use
and (2) the importation into the Ignite
problem of the smoke nuisance, now we'll
nigh uncomfortable in the cities through
out all the lake and Mississippi regions
where the use of bituminous coal pre-
walls. Here in Cleveland we live under
a cloud that never clears away. Now
whatever may be said of Ignite, it does
not make dense black smoke. This is
because of the absence of the heavier
hydro-carbons-tar and bitumen.
Hence the addition of bitumen, if a
necessity to the successful use of Ignite,
is of itself a disagreeable as we'll as ex-
pensive factor.
Many of the readers of the TRIBUNE
are aware that I have given prolonged
study to the Ignite problem. So fas as
the stove is concerned, a satisfactory re-
suit was obtained last June, a few minor
details in construction only being at
fault. These, I am happy to state, have
been removed and recent tests, have
been sufficiently prolonged to establish
the following facts:
A heating stove is now undergo ing
trial here, which with Ignite coal will
maintain for six hours a steady tempera-
ture in the largest living room or office
in the coolest weather, at 700 F. hrenheit
-on n feed of fuel, and requires no
more attendance than is given an an
SSthracite heater. n new feed of Ignite at
o'clock p. m. added to a partly spent
fire, will maintain low heats until 7 a. M.
the next morning, when open drafts will
in twenty minutes give a very hot fire
without additional fuel. In reaching
these results there is no smoke, no SCOT
is deposited in the lues, much more
heat is radiated and a vastly more sven
temperature maintained than is possible
by heretofore known methods with the
best bituminous coal, pound for pound
of fuel used. It absolutely makes no
difference whether the Ignite is in the
form Of Jumps or in dust, and to the
senses no perceptible abatement in
efficiency, whether mined Yesterday or
q year ago. Bitumen would surely
cause a deposit of SCOT in the fues, and
hence, under the new system, would be
a drawback rather than a benefit for
home use. The conclusion I reach is
that Ignite is good enough as it is, but
that for use in old style stoves or the
boiler furnace the eggette form is very
desirable.
7 am aware that the claims I put forth
for the new method of burning Ignite
must be received by the public with
great distrust, but the facts are with me
and will soon be subjected to public
Notification. But one stove (the first
completed model) has been made. The
iron patterns are now receiving their
finishing touches. It will take about
three weeks to cast the first lot of stoves
from these patterns, and as much longer
time to ship them from Cleveland to
their destination in the Ignite regions.
One stove will be sent to Bismarck, and
a$committee of citizens invited to sub
ject it to the severest tests they can de-
Use. It will not disappoint them, and
the results, it is confidently believed,
will prompt the query, whether the new
method of combustion of Ignite does
not mean o to the comfort of the
homes and industrial development of
the rans-Mississippi country than any
Invention since that Of the steam engine.
IA S. w. GRoEsBEoK,
III Captain Sixth Infantry.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 81, 1892.
4 The New St. Johns Church, Dickinson
! In November, 1889, the Rev. G. A.
\ chambers, now of Bismarck and Man
I Aln.sby appointment of the bishop, as.