Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-17

state has 30 900 900 of Ignite It's coal beds
are large South Carolina or Indiana, and they
can be easily mined. Montana has about 800, 000,-
900 900 tons of such COAL New Mexico has 1870, O00
900 900 tons, while Texas has $4,000, 900, 900 BY
the gas producer this all be turned into power,
and that in the places where power is much needed,
and where, at present 1t is produced by costly east
ern coal, transported hundreds and thousands of
miles for the purpose.
The future of the gas engine or rather of the
internal combustion engine, the officials of the
bureau of mines prefer to call it, is beyond concep
ton. Prof Fernald, the engineer in charge of the
producer tests, that it will cut down coal
bills somewhere between 500 900 900 and $500 O0O,
900 year. He says that day there will be
great central gas plants situated at the coal fields
throughout the country, which will generate power
railroads and factories Each of these will
be connected with an electric system which dis
tribute the power radius of $50 miles, each
center covering possible of five times that of
Ohio or Kentucky, or as much as either Germany or
France.
With ten twelve such plants located at the vari-
GUS mine centers, the great railroad systems could
send their trains from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from Hudson bay to the Gulf of Mexico Then the
will by electricity, the smoke nuisance
will be oblterated, and will be able to cross the
continent without a cinder in his eye. This work of
electrifying the roads has already begun. The New
York Central has substituted electric power on its
lines for some distance out of New York, and it is
testing electric locomotives between Rochester and
Buffalo. The Pennsylvania operating electric trains
between Atlantic City and Philadelphia and the New
York. New Haven & Hartford is running its trains
from New York to Stamford by electric power The
great steel plant at Gary Ind has gas engines which
are developing over 100000 horsepower. They are
operated by the gases which would ordinarily waste
They come from the furnaces and the fuel costs moth
ing 1t will be with large plant of future
three thousand horsepower be found in all our
They are putting engines on the great ships of
the world, and they will be eventually used by the
navies OF the future Prof Fernald says that the
United States will probably distance other nations
in this regard He advises that gunboats be run
by gas instead of steam saying that the gas will make
no smoke, and that it be used in the producer
which has no chimney and needs none. He says the
coming war vessel will be a swift smokeless noise
less craft lying low in the water the entire deck
being given over to the work of the guns At night
there will be nothing to show the presence of the
ship TO the enemy
Gas engines are being used on some of the
Of the Great Lakes about to adopt them One Of
the big treighters there has plans for 2,OOO-horse
power gas engine OF the marine type the idea being
that Its use will great deal OF coal AS to the
ocean liners some OF them much as o. 600
tons of high-gTade coal a round trip With a gas
engine this could be cut to 900, with saving Of
hundreds OF dollars day
The gas producer experiments show SO I am told
at the Bureau OF Mines that can be practically
obterated from our large manufacturing cities As
It is now the most OF the smoke comes from the rail-
roads and factories It is estimated that 500 tons OF