The Washburn leader., 1899-11-04
A SECOND PENNSYLVANIA.

A SECOND PENNSYLVANIA.
New Discovery Makes II Look That WY fSf
North Dakota.
Minneapolis Tribune. s2s3s
What about Minnesota ae a sme!tlng
point?
/ That is a question with which North
western people will be struggling iii De
very near future and recent devtlopemerits
have brought to light things which make
this subject pertinent just now. II
Only recently Chicago parties have il
vented a system for ma king what il known
hs Connellsvile coke, from, the Westerh
c"a's, and people iu the etates
Of Iowa, I'linoi. aud Indiana are corres-
pondingly iuhilaqt over what they term
the opening Of a new industry. The fapt
that this famous smelling coke could be
made in the West has also causel$ Tue
Northern iron miners to become intetertsd
as they. claim it will open to them certain
possibilities in the way of smelling which
we're impossible before. sssstS s Ssss
This Connellsyiile coke, itappears II sks
only kind. that can be used for o*ttaiti
and it ia made from the bitum-
inous coal mined uear Conneileville.; from
which it derives its name. The reason for
this is that that certain quality of bttn.
minous coal is the only kind that is tieh
enough in carbon to- make the grads u
coke with. All other bituminous ooalss
have been. to poor to use, but
now, by the Chicago process, coke h&s
been made which has BEEN tried, and has
been found to be almost equal to TIE
Connellsvile variety,
But while Chicago has been getting busy
in the coke industry Minneapolis has not
been idle and the same things that have
been said of Chicago in that direction can
now be said Of Minneapolis, but it is claim.
cd that the Snly real coal for the purpose
of manufacturing Connelsvills coke, go
called, outside of Connelsville ia in North
Dakota and that coal is the deep-.nined
Ignite.
About week ago q certain chemist IN
Minneapolis laid plan before some local
Ignite men, which they were slow to be-
lieve, He Informed them tina. he mad sue
ceeded in maksng a fine sample Of the
famous coke from the Ignite coal minSd
in Dakota. g s
'We could hardly belisue that there was
such go.,d luck" said Joha 4. Hughes.
speaking OF the matter. this morning.
1--WE told him if he could perfect a system
Of making it in quantity at any reason
able; 1gpre,fwe mihgt 4plap for someth,pg
big ia tic way Of making Sooke fnr asnsit-
ing purposea.
"The result was that the chemist went
obout the work nnd has just made report
that there is no question but what the
coke can be baked here, and in quantity
at reasonable enough expense to make
it pay, and chat the quality is, in fact
superior To what is known as Connelsville
coke.'
In order to show the quality Mr.. Hughes
produced piece Of the coke in question
and dropped ii upon his desk.
"Listen to tha.," he said. ut rings like
a silver dollar"
Mr.. Hughes said that there was no long
or any doubt but what the coke oorld be
made out of the lignite coal, and he is
about tu place some TO the crusical test tu
see what it will do. Experts, he says, clsim
that III appearance it is even better than
the original article.
"And wig should 1t not be?' he asked.
"Our Dakota Ignite is almost pure oabron.
It burns 10 fine white ash, with no waste
matter aud in that 1t Is much superior 10
the coal from which the ConLellsv,lle coke
is made tell you this North Dakota coal
ia going to be revelation, and before We
are through With it 1t will astonish us.
Chemists are now at work ON it for other
purposes which aln not at liberty to d.
vulge. but if they are successful there will
be another surprise in store"
Should this coke be as good as is claim
ed for it, it will not only mean much to the
state that produces the coal, but to the en-
tire Northwest, for it opens up the pos
sibillty of Minnesota beooming as great an
iron and steel producing state as any spot
in the world. L. the coke is snperior to the
it means that better grade
iron and steel eau be made here than III
any other place, because the right kind of
coke can be produced for its manufacture at
a reasonable figure. Considerable smelling
is done in Minnesota, but it is against odds
for the coke costs from $3.50 to IS per ton
brought from the East, several times Ms
much as tbs Pennsylvania and other East
ern smeltes have to pay. With that sauna,
Or better quality Of coke, produced in
Minnesota, right were the iron ore il pro-
aucsd, it will gave on Opportunity for pro
auciug the pig iron and steel not present.
ID in any other spot on earth.
Should shis develop what is expected, II
will have an endless e6ecs for it will open
up new lines OF manufacturing, to say