The Dickinson press., 1894-04-21
Oar Ignite in the Twin Cities.

Oaf L1gnlto In tn0 TWIN GlueHs
The late tests in st. Paul and Min.
neapolis Of our native Ignite coal
was highly satisfactory and demon
strates teyond all doubt its practica:
bility as the best fuel for manufac-
turing purposes. These tests conduct.
ed on a scientific basis. under the
charge of the chamber of commerce,
show that it is only q question of
time, and that too. a short time. when
Ignite shall be substituted for the
eastern bituminous|coals as fuel not
only for manufacturing, but to large
extent for domestic purposes, as we'll.
Minneapolis and St. Paul now expend
annually hundreds of thousands of
dollars for fuel consumed by their
many manufacturing establishments,
all of which is sent east. This money
is lost to those cities, because not a
dollar of it is ever returned. Having
now satisfied themselves that in a
country on which they are largely de.
pendent for a market for their manu-
factured articles and to whose peo.
pie their jobbers dispose of the bulk
of their goods, there are more than
fifty thousand square miles of coal
fields, with supply that is inexhaus-
tible, it is hoped that the twin cities
will devote their characteristic ener.
gles to procuring from the railroads
a rate which will enable them to pro.
cure from the prairies of North Da.
kota a fuel which is vastly superior to
the one now used by them.
There is absolutely no obstacle to
its introduction in the twin cities,
and to its general use there other
than the exorbitant rate now cllarg.
ed by the railroad to haul it there.
This should he remedied and if the
people of the two cities will act with
us in this behalf it soon will be. The
advantages to both communities can
not be overestimated should the use
of our fuel he generally adopted.
Aside from the reciprocal advanta.
ges to be derived by the interchange
of our coal for their money and the
benefits commercially, the absence of
smoke from Ignite is factor wor-
thy of serious consideration. The
first manufacturer who shall intro.
duce this fuel and use it in the place
of the disagreeable soft coal of Penn.
sylvania will cause a vast army of
people in this community to rise up
aud bless him.
To Dickinson in particular is the
question of the general use of Ignite
by our sister cities mentioned of vast
Importance. 1t would mean employ.
ment to hundreds where it is now
dozens; it would bring emigration to
us and all the benefits to come there.
from; it would mean, within short
time, a branch road from Dickinson
to the coal adjacent to the Green riv.
er few miles north; it would at.
tract capital not only for the devel.
opement of our coal mines but for
our valuable and inexhaustible clay
deposits as we'll; 1t would mean the
discovery of the many resources Of
the "West Missouri Country" and
their subsequent devclopement, II
would mean rapid and continued set
tlement on our many unoccupied, but
immensely rich, acres of land. The
united efforts of the twin cities
should be devoted to the acceptance
of North Dakota coal as their per.
manent fuel. Its accomplishment
will surely build reciprocal CONNER
cial relations of inestimable value tt
both communities.