The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-03-14
.LAUDS n. D.. COAL
Ignite Wins Recognition Denied
for Many Years.

OST 90NSSp S0Vu0s VOoS nv,
m'nistrator, Shows How Ignite
Saved Suffering and Helps
Win the War.
Bismarck. N. D.-"Never has a nat.
ural resource had a longer or more
d~iscouragtng fight for recognition,
and never has such recognition fin.
ally come so spontaneously and so
enthusiastically and with such unan
unity as in the case of lignite," said
Capt. l. P. Baker, Federal Fuel Ad.
ministrator for North Dakota, in dis.
cussing the sudden leap into popu.
larity of the Flickertail fuel.
We have had people right here in
central North Dakota, near the heart
of the coal fields. who nave used no
other fuel for years and years and
who would use no other. who yet.
when away from home. have found
enjoyment in poking fun at Ignite.
and. because it was a strange fuel
to our friends in the Red River val.
ley, those who have occasion to so.
journ there have made 1t a point to
mako 1t more strange by exaggerat-
ing lignite's pet peculiarities.
1T is quite another story today
Ignite has just saved North Dakota
from a hitter winter beside which
the deprivations the east has suf-
fered would have been as nothing.
It would have been almost i1npossi.
bile with conditions such as they
were TO have supplied all of North
Dakota with eastern dock coal. West
ern Wyoming and Montana Goals
were hard to get and the prices we're
exorbttant. That North Dakota did
not suffer and that it did not pay
double prices for every ton of coal
1t used, was due entirely to Ignite.
And all at once we find a fast
awakening appreciation for this
coal. The North Dakota State Coun.
ell OF Defense meets and adopts res
olutions endorsing the use of Ignite
In North Dakota as a patriotic duty
and m%emor1alizing congress to fur
Their the development of the ignite
industry. The North Dakota legisla-
ture, in special session. adopts simi.
lar resolutions, which are given wide
publicity In the state press and are
forwarded tn our representatives at
Washington Secretary of the Inter.
ior Lane obtains al appropriation of
100000 for the exploitation of this
great natural o Congressman
Norton interests himself in procu
ing further appropriations. Newspa-
pers throughout North Dakota begin
commenting upon Ignite and advis-
ing its use. The Twin Cities, in the
Heatless Monday belt. turn their
eyes D~akotaward. and the st. Paul
and Minneapolis newspapers in edi-
torials and news stories r an in.
v%estigation Of the possibilities Of
fered by North Dakota Ignite fields.
FINALLY m the greatest and
hest endorsement of all in the splen
did. stirring. patriotic resolutions
adopted by the greatest loyalty rally
ever held in North Dakota--the
Council OF Defense war conference
which convened in Bismarck the last
days or February. Again is there
urged upon the people Of North ia.
kota the patriotic duty of burning
Ignite coal. 10 only from the sell
fish motive that In so doing they are
contributing greatly to The develop
ment II enhanced prosperity of
our state. but with the greater and
nor patriotic motive Of doing our
very best to help our country to win
this war by releasing for consump-
ton In the eastern munitions works
and in tho st0ke-holds of the ships
which are carrying our soldiers and
their supplies and munitions across
the Atlantic and millions of tons of
eastern coal which we have demand.
Ell in other years. AS was pointed
out by men Of national who
spoke at this conference. all the
wheat we car raise. all the soldiers
we can train. all the guns and am.
muniti0n we eau manufacture will
he worth less than nothing to us II
we are denied the ships to trans
port them to France. Not only
must we nave coal for the ships
%bunkers. but we must have coal to
produce power for the manufacture
of these ships-hundreds and thous-
ands OF them we must have IT. we
are to replace the world's shipping
destroyed by the German U-Boat
campaign and supply the surplus
tonnage wi,ich this great emergency
demands.
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