The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-08
Coke from Ignite

IL. q. Letter Of Chicago Expert
menting with North Da-
kota Fuel.
Sen. Washburn is Deeply Inter.
ested, for Such Coke Means
Great Things.
The Development of the great
Ignite coal fields at Wilton, n D,
On the line Of the bismarck Wash
burn & Great Falls railway j. 4be-
ing pushed as rapidly as possible.
In the new mine which has lust
been equipped with an electric
mining plant the output at tp'resent
exceeds 100 tons per day. and this
amount will be doubled during the
present week. The development
is not to stop at 200 tons, as the
company expects to increase the
capacity to 400 tons per day before
January l.
The demands for the Ignite
article in North Dakota are fer in
excess Of the supply. Owing e
inadequate facilities, the company y
has made no attempt whatever to
en- arge the demand creataa by
natural conditions, but with its
improved methods Of operation it
lis hoped that the local CONSUMERS
! can be taken care of by the first
of the year. just now the com
pany has orders for more than 400
/ carloads OH their books which can
not be filed for some time.
Senator Washburn 1tys that
once the local demand Is satisfied
he will DO his best to secure favor
able fright rates that will ena,h!s h!s
the company tos trans, Y ths, \ Sk, sl'g
Ito Mimnea1, lis. md ST. e..
{ 1 with r4ssonable rates., the ssnktol
! IS confident that he can furnish
the coal to twin city consumers q
a less price than coal has syel
been soldi.l the northwest.
A feature Of the opening Of the
new mines is the widespread in.
terest aroused by the reports oi
| the quality Of the Ignite fouad in
such unlimited quantities. L.Z'
Letter, president Of the Universal
Fuel company Of Chicago, and one
of the best known capalists in he
country, has become greatly IN
teyssted in the possib bilities Of an
industrial revolution throughout
the west and northwest by means
Of the cheap coal at the Wilton
mines. Mr.. Letter wrote Senator
Washburn some time ago, inform
ling him regarding new method
for coking coal which had proved
+ ! Is -.
highly satisfactory. By this pro
cess, coal Of q compa atively poor
quality has been coked satisfac.
torily, the results obtained beings
revelation to coal men. Mr.. Leit1ers
asked for supply Of the. NORTH 4
Dakota Ignite for the purpose 81 6 +
making some xperiments; AsmlAh Y Y
supply was sent and the results I q
achieved were very Qualifying, blt
in order TO satisfy himself FULLY
Mr., Leither req quested thatss:a fuii
carload Of average coal be isn't tpl y
Chicago. Senator " shburn 81
once dispatched q car q the cox
ing works of the Universal Feel
company, but the experiments
have not vet been cpncl cluds u
From Mr.. Letters . favorable AL.
servati ions. however, he 81 certain
that the Ignite can ios ooked. s M
Re the coal can be coked satis-l
factorily, itscanIlo he used 81 xtensiv ively
/ for smsiting puII o ye u g
for domestic ne. Said fsnstcr
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have. inst rsturnsd from Wan. ll.'
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