Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-03
Made From Ignite Goal Is
Power TO Be Used for
Irrigation
If Experiment Proves a Sue.
cess, Economically, the
World Is Ours


from his trip through the irrigation
districts of northwestern North Da-
kota and eastern Montana, where
he met Secretary Garfield and party
who were inspecting the several irri-
cation projects being put in opera
ton by the government.
The captain was greatly pleased
with what he saw, but what APP
pealed to him most was the extern
sive work being done by the govern
ment in making electricity out of
our native Ignite and transporting
the electric fluid long distances to
make power for the irrigation
pumps. - w.. .lz.,
Probably no place in the United
States has this experiment been
tried before, and the result, if sue
cessful, means wonderful develop
ment of the coal resources of the
western part of the state, and the
! beauty of it all is that the feasibil-
| ity of the thing will be demonstrate
ed without q cent of cost to the peo-
pie of the state. %A r. ,e#
| At Buford, west of Williston and
near the Montana state line, fine
coal mine has been opened by the
government close. to the power sta
ton of the Buford-Trenton irriga
ton district, where everything that
pertains to a model coal mine can
be seen as it is being developed by
government engineers on the most
approved plans. The coal from this
1,ine will be run out on cars to the
power plant and transformed into
electricity in great abundance, no
only for the local pumping plant
but for the pumping plants on thu
higher levels at Williston, over 2
miles away. II this can be success
fully and economically done the de
velopment of cheap electrical powe
for all kinds of purposes in this par
, of the state will be tremendou
incentive to manufacturing indus
tries and will push the Slope to tn
; front wonderfully, as all over thi
, section Ignite coal is found in abun
!. dance and handy to the railroad
: and towns. t,.!t-r
1t is nothing new for electricit.
to be economically made wher
water is abundant and easily al
4 tanned, as at Niagara Falls, but it i
said that this is the first time al
attempt has been made to Use liz
mite coal for this purpose, therefor
the present endeavor is but an es
pertinent, which, as before stated
} means great impulse to industrial
energy in this section if it prove
! successful.
OF course it follows that if TIN
. irrigation Of large tracts of land
J in the Williston and Buford district
by the use of pumps operated b.
electricity made from Ignite Goa
j proves a success economically, i
will be but a short time until tn
) people in the vicinity of Bismarcl
will come to want the proposed Bis
marck irrigation scheme carried GU
as originally planned. 1t is fortu
nate that we have the opportunit.
/ near at hand to see the experiment
/ carried out, and it is hoped in tn
event Of its success, as the engi
neers seem confident will be the re
suit, that there will be money lef
in the irrigation fund for us to u.s.
If we care to. i +
! There are few spots in the ives
where irrigation could so easily b,
: accomplished as on the fats soutl
. of the city, and enthusiasts on tn,
J subject feel sure that the day is no
\ far distant when instead of dozel
] families now on the tract, that ,
hundred will thrive there under irri
. cation. q j..