The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-01-21
/ RIVAL OF KING COAL.
,.;ouettes Said to Make an
Ideal Fuel.
oEAN, CHEAP, NEARLYsM oKBIBSS

plenty of MHterIal In the United a"
pen For Making Them - How
s'A' a Manufactured I'm Ger
1nany-A Plant to BE h't"0'''Aeo
:. New York soon.
,,so Of the high price and scar
~ coal the patent office at Washing
ely T., D ncing flooded with inquiries re-
'o a.ding machinery for the manufac-
gu % hriouettes or prepared fuel,
lu9 tho New York World. While
Say' -. Of patents have been issued on
So ,.orv designed for this work, but
ln"''I eao+ories have been established in
It" United States, although it is
liz l.oetobIe industry abroad, and par
plo 'IsrIv in Germany, France and Bel
l''l'''' Those fuel briquettes are made
s snD IGNITE, peat, coal dust and culm
t tro, the anthracite fields.
liT %horp are in the United States vast
of neat in western New York,
y TvrD England, Michigan, Illinois, Wis
Nv" ,,, oregon and Washington which
Iun9 a IN the past been neglected, but
law o now being surveyed and investi-
az NJ. with a view to the establishment
g footories. In the Dakotas there are
Snontities Of Ignite, and throughout
tbo gulf states is to be found a ma
t Tori available for fuel which is spe-
cips of lgnate peat
Tho great culm heaps about the an
s,nooi+p mines everywhere can be util-
;7od for this purpose and sold for even
ioso than the best selected coal, in adj
ditioo to occupying a less space for
storage.
The Germans have reached the max
,mum in the manufacture OF fuel bril-
orottps according to a report made to
tho state department by the consul
oorpral at Berlin, Frank ii. Mason.
The factories there are divided into
two classes in respect to the material
pmnloved-those using brown coal, Hg-
mite or carbonized peat and those
rsing as the basic material coal dust
and refuse from the mines.
Household briQuettes as made In Ger
many are cleaner to the touch than coal,
cheaper, kindle more readily and burn
with clear, full flame. They are used
for crates. heating and cooking stoves
and ranges and constitute the principal
household fuel of Berlin. They are
made of brown coal, peat and to small
extent from anthracite dust. The stand
ard household briquette is inches long,
inches wide and 2 inches thick and is
retailed and delivered in Berlin at
prices ranging from So thousand In
summer to $3.50 a thousand in the win
ter. These briquettes are stacked up In
the cellars of the houses and, being
ceanly, are carried about much the
same as wood in the United States.
There are 2S6 factories making brown
coal briquettes in Germany, with a to-
tai of 691 presses, each press capable
Of an output of from fifty to ninety tons
Of briquettes a day.
Industrial briquettes are used in Ger
many for firing locomotives, steam boil
ers, for smelling and many other kinds
Of industrial heating. They are made
Of bituminous coal dust, held together
by matrix of mineral pitch and coal
tar derived from coke ovens or gas man
ufactories. The pitch costs from $40 to
Sl2 a ton, and it is seldom that more
than or per cent of pitch is neces-
sary to make the briquettes available.
Pitch of this character can be bought
much cheaper in the United States than
in Germany. These briquettes, while
not absolutely smokeless, have less
smoke than ordinary bituminous coal.
When burned in locomotives or in any
furnace with good draft, they create
only thin, translucent mist containing
little SCOT.
The manufacture of industrial bri-