The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-07
ASHES GOOD FUEL If
TREATED BY CHEMICALS

A0FIES G0O9 FUEL ~
TREATED BY CHEMICALS.
ASH BURNING FORMULA.
Oxalic acid, 2 OF. costs 80 cents per
pound.
Salt / ID cost 1 cent per pound.
Water, / gallon.
Moisten mixture of one part crushed
coal and three parts ashes with the
product of this formula to proper con-
sistency. Either anthracite or btu
minonus coal may be used. This mix
ture, if placed on a burning fire, will
fuse nd burn leaving little residue.
Kansas Citq, Mo-, May 4-Had the
discovery of John Gilmore, the cob
bier of Altoona. Pa, who says ashes
will burn, reached Kansas city in a
normal spring it might have passed
unnoticed by chemists. But fortunate
ly for the man who wants to make
those three buckets of coal last until
it is really warm, and who objects to
carrying out the ashes on general
principles, the news came this week.
fIn a thousand homes ald furnace
room experimenters got busy, while
the druggists were busy putting up
two-ounce packages of oNalic acid and
calling on the wholesalers for more.
Interested in the demand and find
ing out, as only druggists can, the
reason, some of them set to work ex-
perime1ting with the compound for
their own satisfaction. They were in
a better position to get results than |
the average experimental. who may
Or may not have reaped results from
his pains. Here is what L. F. Zuber,
Eighteenth and Walrond said, as ne
emerged from behind his prescription
ase a look of care covering that
part of mis- face on which a smile has
no mortgage
Successful Experiments.
well, it burns. l made ire ex-
periments to test the formula and Sc
cured he rest results by following it
closely. When more water or more
Goa thai required was used combus-
was poor. Mixing ashes and coal
with the acid-salt solution in the right
right quantities, just wet enough SO
hat the mixture crumbled between
the fingers like moist earth, was found
to be right. This mixture, placed on
Goals, fused rapidly and then burn
giving out a sulphur smell and
smoke. Their was some heat,
but it not seem to be so intense as
from coal. Little residue was
left"
Kansas City fuel experts generally
are agreed that the process does not
really enable one to burn ashes, but
moreFy CONSUMES Jue unDuTneu CdE-
and other volatile elements in
ash. 1t is pointed out, in support
Of this claim, that coal in practical
often yields as much as 40 to so
per cent of it's original bulk in ash,
while laboratory tests show perhaps
only 80 per cent.
Much of this variance is accounted
for by methods of stocking. In large
plants, where coa1 is fed automatic
ally and just as the fire require it,
he proportion of ash is relatively
small. In the household however,
he problem is different and it is in
he furnace and small stove of the
and the small steam plant that
he greatest waste occurs. 1t might
De economy, say these experts, to ap- {
ply the process in a small way in
cases.
Nature of Problem. '
The whole problem is to secure
complete combustion said a chemist
Who tests fuels, yesterday. Forty
pounds OF coal generally are left out E
If ten pounds of coal, II perhaps ;
fifteen pounds of good Goa is in the !
Ssh. With the best stocking, this ff- ,
cen pounds may be materially reduc- 9
d. Insofar as the discovery a it r
possible to dispose of this present =
waste, providing the expense is nc y
o great, it may prove valuable. But r
emember, you are not burning ashes \
can't Eat your pudding and have
t too, and you can't make coal yield
eat twice"
Oxalic acid which makes the ash
possible, ONE in white srys {
ais. In small quantities it is pre- :
AIRED from wood sorrel, and herd, and q
lso from plants of buckwheat family. I
IN a commercial scale it is obtained (
n large quantities by the action of 7
used caustic soda or potash OF saw l
uSt. =
For the last two or three months, i
due to the Altoona expert U
ne1ts, the price has risen. At S2 !
eats it is above the average of sever y
/ years. Much of it comes from Min e
eapolis, while a considerable part of |
sold in the United States is i'm d
orted from England. Nobody was e
bic to tell exactly yesterday how i
1uch it would take to treat a ton of Il
shes, or what h cost of ashes
for burning, e ton would be.
DenVe News.