Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-03-21
LAUDs N. D. COAL
Ignite Wins=Rsrognition Denied
for Many Years.
Capt !. p. Baker, Federal Fuel Ad.
minlstrator, Shows How Ignite
Saved Suffering and Helps
Win the War.


ural resource had lol.ger or more
discouraging fight for recognition,
and never has such recognition fin.
ally come so spontaneously aud so
enthusiastically and with such unan.
unity as in the case OF Ignite" said
Capt. l. =. Baker, Federal Fuel Al
ministrator for North Dakota, in dis
cussing the sudden leap into popu.
larity OF the F'lickertail fuel
we have had people right here in
central North Dakota, near the heart
OF the coal fields, who have 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 1t 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 bitter winter beside which
the deprivations the east has sui.
fered would have been as nothing.
1t would have been almost impossi.
bic 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 were
exorbitant. That North Dakota did
not suffer and that 1t 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.
Gil of Defense meets and adopts res
olutions endorsing the use OF Ignite
In North Dakota as patriotic duty
and memorializing congress to fur.
Their the development Of the Ignite
industry. The North Dakota legisla.
ture, in special session, adopts SINH.
lar resolutions, which are given wide
publicity In the state press and are
forwarded to our representatives at
Washington Secretary Of the Inter.
iior Lane obtains an appropriation OF
800, 900 for the exploitation OF this
great natural resource. Congressman
Norton interests himself in procur.
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 Dakotaward, and the st. Paul
and Minneapolis newspapers in edi.
torials and news stories urge an in.
vestigation of the possibilities OF
fered by North Dakota Ignite fields.
Finally comes the greatest and
best 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 OF February. Again Is there
urged uron the people of North Da-
kota the patriotic duty of burning
Ignite coal. not only from the sell
fish motive that in SO doing they are
contributing greatly to the develop
ment and enhanced prosperity of
our state. but with the greater and
more 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 the stoke-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
ed in other years. AS was pointed
out by men of national renown who
smoke at this conference. all the
wheat we can raise. sll the soldiers
We can train, all the guns and am
munition we can manufacture will
be worth less than nothing to us IL
we are denied the ships to trans.
port them to France Not only
must we have coal for the ships'
bunkers. but we must have coal to
produce power for the manufacture
Of these ships-hund reds and thous-
ands Of them we must have If we
are to replace the worlds shipping
destroyed by the German U-Boat
'Si'P'iSa .ni supply lut surplus
tonnage which this great emergency
demands.
''For the first time in the history
OF tie state committee representing
the manufacturers of North Dakota
II this conference went on record In
favor OF tho use Of Ignite in all O,
our manufacturing enterprises. in.
sisting that 1t is a solemn duty these
industries owe their country and
their state as well.
"Out of all this agitation has coma
sincere appreciation of Ignite.
The consumption has not been in.
creased to the extent which might
be expected; many OF our good cit.
fzens still regard Ignite az a weird
II not dangerous, sort of thing Rnt
they are slowly adopting more
tolerant attitude. They arc hearing
from other communities Which have
burned and liked II: they ara max.
Ing up their minds TO try Il during
TIE milGer weather that is ,or7,t,,r