The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-06-24
II Answer to Comnnnication Of
Clerk Stein Central Construction
Company Gives Information
BEFORE COUNCIL MONDAY
Will Again Discuss Probabilities Of
Placing Plant Here-ls Not Z
New Method.
BEEN IN SERVICE rs YEARS
Makes Comparisons with Other Pro-
cesses Now in Use and Figures
Show Up Well.

0AOW UP w eAs -
In reply to communication from
George Stein, city clerk, the latter
today received a letter from H. E.
Anderson of the Central Construction
Company, representative of the SUI
perior Gas Improvement company,
setting forth the process used by
their company in maintaining a gas
plant in a place the size of Bemidji.
The letter follows:
D. - 418 West St.,
s.... j. Williamsburg, Pa.
City of Bemidji, ~. ~. -
Bemidji, MINI. + -. -
Attention to Geo. Stein, City Clerk:
My Dear Sir: r. =
Your letter reached me last eve
ming. You will pardon me for go
ing back to the pen to answer but
it gets there ?: z =
was pleased to learn that your
city was willing to give US hear
ing in regard to the gas proposition.
If we do not have the most desir-
able process and one best suited for
cities and towns, then we ask you
to pass us by. - =: -
First: We-maakezsau1- claim; ofsa
new but a carburetted water gas,
such as has been used for about
seventy-fve years in different lin les.
We merely increase the value and
efficiency of the gas taken from the
raw material, expediate and cheap
en- the operation and obtain a COM
bined water and coal gas Of the high
est eficinecy. with no resulting res
idue or by; products. 49,,
To quote the figures Of the best
authority on efficiency and heat in the
Pittsburgh district our gas as gen
Grated at East Liverpool, Ohio, costs
$.OS6 per ton, this includes interest
on investment and depreciation.
Verify that by writing to L. c. Steele
efficiency engineer, Oliver Building.
Pittsburgh, Pa. I could send figures
but secure them without coming
through US.
Let us make little comparison
with the processes now in use and
see where we are at. =
From one ton of coal we make Co.
600 cubic feet of gas at a cost OF
less than 10 cents per thousand, In
this district where we get the best
grade Of gas coal for less han $500
per ton. In your district two things
would be considered there. CD
Relative value of coal in heat and
efficiency. e Relative cost of coal
which would no doubt increase the
cost of manufacture a few cents per
thousand, yet we feel safe in saying
that we can manufacture gas by our
process in your district for less than
half of the cost by other processes
I quote from a leading gas manu-
faoturer in the water system.
For every thousand feet OF gas
we use thirty pounds of seventy-two
hour coke or of hard coal and then
require not less than four and half
gallons to enrich" Oil has trtppied
in cost in the last Is months and
further it is impossible to get con-
tract for supply but must depend
on the open market and uncertainty
Of delivery. -
The retort or coal gas system gives
from 10000 to $4,000 Gu. It. OF gas
from a ton Of coal, with q result ana
by products of pitch, tar and am
monia liquid.
Second: We make fixed gas. By
OUT OrOCcSS We AsSSAS
fred gas and it can be carried In
any distance in lines and pipes With
out loss or depreciation, except sucn
as may be caused by frictions or de-
fects In the lines.
Third: Our gas is clean gas.
Fourth: We have arranged tnae
any city or industry may do Dusl-
ness with us in their own way.
First: We build and sell the
plants, asking q small royalty 70 tn1
Superior Gas Improvement company,
which We must pay for the use q
the process.
Second: This royalty may b re-
Educed to cash bonus or profit.
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