Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-08-10
PALESTINE, TEXAS, AUGUST 10, 1907.

investigations would mean a saving to
the manufacturers in these states Of
S15,O0O,OO0 to S20,00O,O0O per annum.
Again, the total consumption OF
coal in St Louis, Mo, for industrial
purposes alone amounts to more than
100000 tons annually. II gas pro-
ducers and gas engines we're substi
tuted for the steam plants, this ton
mage would be reduced 100000 to
100000 tons and at the same time
smoke would be practically eliminat-
ed.
Further, if gas producers can be
introduced on ships and river boats
not only will millions be saved in coal.
but far less room will be required on
board for its storage. With this
much cheaper gas operation, steam
boats and river traffic Will, no doubt,
| become a much more powerful COM
petitor to railways than heretofore.
Another important fact is that
many fuels that are not fit for use
under ordinary steam boilers have
been used with the greatest ease in
! the gas producer. This opens the way
10 the utilization of many fuels that
nave heretofore been regarded as
practically of no value. Several of
the poorest grades of bituminous Goals
have shown remarkable efficiency in
the gas producers and the lignites and
peats have responded with great read |
mess to the demands of this new gen
orator. A remarkable feature of the |
tests was that North Dakota and Tex |
as brown Ignite and Florida peat |
yielded more power in the gas produc-
er than the very best West Virginia /
coal under the same steam boiler The
Ignite fields of North Dakota and
Texas are almost inexhaustible, and
as very little use commercially has
been found for the Ignite in the past
this will develop a new industry for
those states that will grow into i'm
mense proportions as the years ad-
vance.
THE possibilities of this form of
power have been received with such
confidence and enthusiasm by engin-
GERS and managers of large plants
that there are already in the United
States alone LoyeG5Q gas producer. in
stallations, ranging in size from 1,500
to 5000 horsepower. The number of
installations and the persistent in
crease has led the National Board of
Fire Underwriters TO issue special
rules and requirements for the con
installation and use of coal
gas producers. The economical sue
cess of these plants and the POSSIBLE
tiles of using vast fields of coal, lig-
mites and Deats heretofore considered
of little value for industrial purposes
are a strong indication that the gas
producer form of power will, within
the next few years, develop far be- I
yond present calculation.
There is no better smoke preventer /
on the market today than the gas pro-
Queer After the plant is in working [
there is an absolute free
dom from smoke The general adop-
.ion of this economical system of
power production will mean the al
most complete elimination of smoke. v
The great reduction in the cost Of d
power production made possible by | c
Inc use of the gas producer means al a
90 rapid strides in electrical develop. n
nent within the next few years. Now 5
hat 1t is commercially possible to g
transmit electrical power for dis Il
ances of $50 miles or more the loca- a
ion of immense power plants will u
speedily follow. A central plant could \
distribute such electrical current for a >
distance of 500 miles; that is, $50 g
niles either side of the plant, thus IA
covering an area of almost 10000 "a
square miles, an area nearly four n
lines the size of the state of Illinois. n
With ten or twelve Of these great cen "
raj plants located at the various mine "a
enters. the great railroads Of the u
United States can send their trains I