The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-22
and POWER
PLANT " NERS
WATCH LIGNITE
and ITS GROWTH.
M. L. Hibbard Predicts
Adoption of Lignite
By Many Plants
MINOT MAN IS
NEW PRESIDENT
Concrete Shipbuilding Elk
planned by Bourne of
Minneapolis

M. IA Hibbard. manager Of the
Union. Light Heat a Power 60. 81
Fargo. speaking this. morning before
the closing business session OF the
North Dakota Society OF Engineers
on the subject of illuminating and
Heating" declared that light and
power plants are looking on Ignite
with more favor and that while no
automatic stocking apparatus has yet
been designed for use with this fuel
progress viii. undoubtedly be made
which win make easy the adoption
OF Ignite in many such plants.
The future of North Dakota. I"
said Manager Hibbard, will depend
in very great measure on the way
and extent to which its Ignite mines
are developed and for the people Of
North Dakota, as a part of such
We opm ent. it is necessary
moment to use this fuel for both
domestic and other purposes to the
fullest extent. In doing this they can
feel that they are not only helping
themselves but also the nation in
tightening the burden of the trans
portation companies by substituting
the short haul in North Dakota for
of the extremely long one from
Pennsylvania or Illinois"
Manager Hibbard recommended
the creation of some bureau or
branch Of the state government to be
entrusted with this work. He said
attempts have been made to briquette
this fuel with the idea Of eliminat-
ing some of its disadvantages, par
ticularly that OF the high moisture
cent BY weight. One of the main
difficulties OF briquettingi he said,
has been the securing Of a sattsfac-
tory binder. In one process now an
operation in the state and for which
much Is claimed, 1t is said that no
binder is used. He said the gen.
eraI process as outlined to him Isl
that the Ignite Is pulveriged and
dried in ovens and then compressed
into briquettes weighing one pound
each. 1t is claimed that the ignite
itself contains binder which Isl
brought into play either by extreme
ly high pressure used In COMPRISING
it or otherwise.
r.. J. Thomas, city engineer at Mi
not, was elected president Of the
state association at the annual bal
loting of the members late Thursday
G. w. Heinmiller of Car
rington. ana w. r. Veigel Of Dick |
inson, were elected vice presidents.
and Il. II. Chandler Of Grand Forks.
treasurer.
The committee chairV1en named at
the meeting this morning are;
Legfslation. Edmund White Of Mo- |
hail; concrete. Il. J. Ba.bcock Of |
Grand Forks. drainage, s. #. Crabbe
Of Fargo; roads, w r. Weigel OF
bridges. III. 9. F'rahm Of
AGinot: field methods, j. A. Ingram OF
Grand Forks, retiring president or
the association: Office methods, II.
"a Anders OF Fargo; municipal i'm
August Hunt OF Minot;
electrical division X @. Schmidt of |
Valley city; contracting, E. III. Blair
OF Grand Forks: publicity, 4. R.
Atkinson OF Bismarck and resolu-
lions. r. III. Slocum of Fargo.
The Thursday evening meeting
was held at the physics room at the
Agricultural college, following the
Informal dinner serve dat the Young
Christian association. In
the absence of i. a.. Pettibone OF
OF the Portland Cement
q. u. Bourne Of the
same association. spoke, and told OF