The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-04-30
Briquettes Coming
Now to the Front.
Coal Experts of the Geological Survey Predict General
Use of Brquettes i'm Next Five Years. Great
Outlook for North Dakota Ignite.

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/ peat, without any other binder.
"Smokeless compressed fuel
made from slack of fine coal, and a
binder made from sago yielding
plants.
"Briquettes made from commin-
Euted coal, coke orsother combusti-
Eble, with molasses for binding ma
Eterial. \ s
fse Fine coal. with binder of pitch
which has been treated by carbonic
acid.
"Briquettes made from slack or
culm mixed when heated with par
a&n residum, borax antimony, ace
tic acid, oil cake meal, clay, crude
potash and salt.
"Process of making artificial fuel
from sawdust, coke dust, peat and
various forms of waste or earthly
matter with mineral oil.
"Smokeless briquettes made Of
Find divided coal or other carbona-
ceous material, and binder made
from butchers waste.
Compressed artificial fuel, con-
shifting of a mixture Of coal ashes,
sawdust, sand, parafin wax, and
sodium nitrate. -.
Artificial fuel consisting of coal
dust, screenings or waste, sawdust,
resin, sour beer and molasses COM
pressed.
Some of these schemes are, of
course, chimerical, though I do net
care to say which"
Mr.. Parker has been smsk g
study of the history s. iss
mining industry in Til u nnl1 lIIl!
The most cons t. .a S M u. ls:l, c u y
1psoduotion is that Of the anthracitg
region q Pennsylvania, from which
shipments began in. 1920. The REQ:
ords' ofzthis output have been care.
fully collected and preserved. The
earliest account of production in
that ZION occurred in 1914, when
an output of twenty-five Z short tons
was,reborted to have been obtained
Between that year and 1920, about
800; tons were taken out of those
Pennsylvania mines. From 1914
to the close of 1902, the total, pro-
|auction Of Pennsylvania anthracite
has amounted to 1864, 200, 900 short
tonswhich would be approximately
q ton Of hard coal for every human
being now living ON the face of the
earth.
The bituminous coal output has
not been SO faithfully recorded, but
one authority states that $4,000
short tons were produced in 1922.
It is certain that the earliest btu
minous working was in the Rich
mond basin of Virginia, and that
for many, years its output exceeded
that of the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite. This was the case until 1929.
The Richmond basin continued to
be worked vigorously until 1882,
when it began to decline, and by
1850 had almost disappeared. The
development of the Piedmont re-
gion, then in the old state of Vir-
ginia, did not begin until 1856, or
about the time that it was success
fully invaded by the Baltimore &
Ohio Ry. and the Chesapeake &
Ohio canal, lad then reached as
far inland as Cumberland. The Po-
cahontas region was not opened
until 1882, and the Wise county
field until 1891.
! The early records Of Pennsylva-
nia's bituminous productions are
very defective. The first informa-
lion in contained in the census Of
1910, which showed a production
of 464,826 short tons, although it
10 certain that soft coal was pro-
duced in western Pennsylvania be-
fore that time. Subsequent esti-
mates in the census and elsewhere
show q very rapid increase.
The earliest western statistics ofl