The Dickinson press., 1911-07-15
WILL mean
MILLIONS

ually Bring Us Much
Manufacturing.
As has already been indicated several
times in the PRESS. tests are being
carried on at Hebron under the direction
of the State University. that will soon
dive every city in the Ignite territory
of North Dakota. producer-eas power
plants that will be high in efficiency
and exceedingly economical. These
plants will also manufacture briquetts
for the eastern markets.
A government report which has just
been issued a, Washington, gives a
General idea Of the briquetting possi-
bilities for North Dakota, but this report
does not indicate any of the GAS for
lighting, central heating and power pos
sibilities for our native fuel.
1t is a well demonstrated fact that by
taking a certain amount of gas from
Ignite in the process of making bri-
Quettes, the quality of the fuel pro-
duct is improved.
The government report reads as fol-
lows:
The Bureau of Mines, through it's ex-
periments at the Pittsburg testing stat
ion, believes that it has developed
fuel supply for the western part of the
country that will be of immense value.
It has succeeded in making briquettes
without the use of a binding material
out of Ignite from California. Texas
and North Dakota. The difficulty here
tofore with the manufacture of bri-
quets has been the cost of the pitch
which is considered necessary to hold
the coal dust together.
Ignite is poor form of coal,
brown in color. and is found in great
abundance in several western states
notably North and South Dakota, Mont
ana and Texas. Its use has been greatly
restricted because of it's tendency to
slack or turn to dust shortly after it is
mined and brought to the surface. Be-
cause of the great amount of moisture
it contained. between 80 and 40 per-
cent. the Ignite has been difficult to
burn under boilers or in stoves. There
is said 10 be $50. 900 square miles of
territory underlain by Ignite and mil
ons of acres belong to the g0vernmment
The Bureau of Mines. sometime ago.
conducted a series of experiments at the
pumping plant of the Reclamation Ser
vice, at Williston. North Dakota, and
succeeded in developing furnace that
would burn the Ignite satisfactorily.
But this did not solve the problem of
the transportation of the Ignite. The
bureau therefore sent to Germany,
where the brlquetting of Ignite is much
farther advanced, and obtained from
that country a powerful briquetting
machine. The experiments have gone
far enough to indicate that Ignite can
be satisfactorily briquetted at a cost
that makes the manufacture of briquets
commercially possible. The results of
the experiments are contained in bul.
letin "BriQueting Tests of Ignite just
issued by the Bureau of Mines. The aut-
hor, Charles L. Wright, says. 1.-The re-
suits Of the briquetting investigations
conducted by the government are expect
ed to prove of considerable value, not
only to the government itself as the
owner of extensive Ignite deposits and
the largest simple purchaser OF fuel, but
also to the people in the regions where
'lignite is found. The problem of fuel
supply in those regions is of peculiar
interest for many of the Ignite deposits
are situated long distances from fields of
high grade coal. The problem assumes
still larger proportions when one real
ICES that the development of manufact-
urine industries in those regions de-
pends upon the ability to obtain a
cheap and satisfactory fuel.''
Mr.. Wright gives the approximate
cost of briquettes, loaded on cars, from a
briquett plant located at the mines. az
$2.51 in Texas, s.. 50 in North Dakota ;
and in California as SIS. a. This ap-
plies to b,iquetting run-of-mine Ignite
to improve it's heat value and weather
resisting properties rather than to bri-
quoting slack or waste coal 1t is be-
lieved it will be possible to make bri
quetts from the waste coal, which will
reduce the cost materially.
Copies of this bulletin No.14 may De
fobtained by those interested by writing
to the Director of the Bureau of Mines.
!: Washington. D. G.
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