Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-06-13
TESTING I THE COAL.
Successful Test of Ignite Coal on the
Bismarck, Washburn & Great
Falls Road.
Heavy Train Pulled Up the Grade by
an Engine Fired With the
Ignite.
Result of the Test>of Great Importance
in the Matter of Fuel for the T.
Y Road.

A test was made on the Bismarck,
Washburn & Great Falls road last
night with Ignite coal, as a means of
steam producing for engine driving.
The test vas made with a view of as
c%ertaining whether the use of Ignite
coal in the hauling OF trains over the
road would be practicable. The mat
ter is an important one to the road, as
Ignite, if it a be used as a fuel, can
be had by the road at about a tenth
the cost of the bituminous coal in use
or, railroads through the country, as
it car be secured from the mines on
the Washburn property, within a short
distance of the line of the road and
without the paymen. of freight charges
over other railroads. There is an in
exhaustible supply of Ignite on lands
recently acquired by General Wash
burn, and it will be a matter of great
saving in the operation of his road if
it can be used to furnish motive power.
CCSIS LA was AduC last ulSAJ,
while not complete in all respects,
proved that the Ignite coal can be used
on the engines and will give good re-
suits. A supply of three tons of the
coal was brought from the Satterlund
mine, north of Washburn, to use in the
experiment. The engine was coaled
UP with the coal and worked about the
| yards in the afternoon and last night
a test was made with the coal for haul
ing. A train Of thirteen heavily loaded
freight cars, several of them being the
heaviest freight cars on the Northern
Pacific, loaded to the roof with ties,
was hauled for a distance of several
miles up a 1 per cent grade, with an
ordinary standard engine. The run
was made from the curve north of the
penitentiary to the top of the grade.
From the weight of the loads and the
size of the cars the train was equal to
an ordinary train of sixteen or seven
teen loads. With steam produced from
the Ignite coal, the train was drawn
to the top of the hill without trouble.
Under favorable conditions, it was
demonstrated that the coal would
serve we'll as a steam producer for
hauling trains over the road.
Several persons were on the train
that made the test, including Traffic
Manager Walker, John Satterlund and
E. A. Hughes, who said from observa-
tion Of the working of the coal, that
with the Ignite for fuel the engine
worked to within eighty per cent of its
effective capacity. The fires burned
well, and there were no unfavorable
effects noticed in the consumption OF
the coal by the engine. The coaa car
be laid down from the mines for use
on the engines for about so cents a tor
against a cost of So or So for the Goa.
at present in use. The value of the
coal consumed in making the expert.
mental run last night and yesterday
afternoon was about 81 90. The i'm.
mense saving is apparent.
AL OF the persons who witnessed the
experiment stated this morning thai
they had no doubt of the fact that the
hgnite could be used Wa. economy ant
satisfactory results in the engines or
the road. The coal is a superior
grade of Ignite, and has a greater pei
cent OF carbon than Ignite from any
other mine in the state.
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M'LEAN-SMITH.
Married-At the Fort Rice reserva,
tioh on June u. 1900, BY the Rev. "A
Durrie, at the home OF the bride, Alex
ander Mclean and Pauline NJ. Smith
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III known and hfUhlv Cd and Will