The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-19
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COMPANY PLAN I.
is SANCTIONED
Big Corporation Which Will Bri.
quette Ignite Given Per. n
4 mission to Operate
TO INSTALL HUGE PLANTS
Lchigh and San Greek Properties
VIII Involve Large Capital
Investments
TO INSTALL HUGE PLANTS

The petition Of the Federal Fuel co
of Aberdeen, S. D., $a,0O0,OOO lig
mite briquetting corporation. for per
mission to sell stock in North DakOts
was unanimously approved Dy thu
North Dakota blue sky commission al
It's meetings this week. Judge Frank
McNulty OF Aberdeen, president of the
company; J. w. Martin OF St. Paul
secretary, and J.. G. Thompson OF
Sioux Falls. b director, appeared be
lore the board for the company Paul
Fernholz, inventor OF the Of the lig
mite bfiduetting process to which the
company has acquired rights, was also
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North Dakota interested.
North Dakota has a deep personal
interest iii tho Federal Fuel Co, mas,
much as the corporations operations
will be largely confined TO this state.
The company already has contracted
for the purchase Of the LefliUh Coal
Mining Co.'S property near Dickinson,
consisting Of several hundred acres
of coal lands Immediately contiguous
to the main line of the Northern Pa.
cific, and it is preparing to install
steam shovels to strip this fuel and
oad 1t in cars for transportation to
he briQuettinE plant to be established
at Lcmigh. This will be a twelve
unit plant, With capacity Of 500 to
1900 tons Of briQuettes daily. and the
company expects to invest in this prop
erty $4,000 0within tho next twelve
months.
North Of Bowman the Federal Fuel
Co. has contracted for $50 acres of
land in the big vein extending down to
Sand creek. The company has here
4 vein of coal 80 feet deep and with
only 20 to 80 feet of overburden. A
plant will be installed near Bowman
for the briQuetting Of this coal, which
will be shipped to Milwaukee line
points in North and South Dakota and
in Montana. .
Approved in South Dakota.
The company's plan of capitalization
already had been approved ny the blue
sky commission of South Dakota, in
which state many prominent capital
isis and professional men have be-
come stockholders. The Fernholz pro-
cess, referred to as the Hot Punch
Press" system. already Is successfully
operated at the Scranton mines in this
state, and 1t is said to be by far the
most successful plan for the briquet-
ting Of Ignite yet devised No artif-
cial binder is used The coal, after
being dried and powdered. is com
pressed into briquettes under a pres.
sure OF one million pounds to the
square inch. This intense pressure at
the same time generates heat which
crvstalizes the carbon, producing a..
product said to be very much like an
thracite. +'F -.
Paul Fernholz, the inventor. advis-
es that his process is used with equal
success in the briquetting of sawdust,
producing briquettes of a fuel value |
SIS per cent as great as that of coal:
The Fernholz company is now engag.
ed in large briquetting project in
Java, where valuable fuel briquettes
are manufactured from sugar waste,
replacing imported coal costing $50
the ton. while in the process sufficient
sugar is extracted to pay the cost Of
operating. #, ~ ~.-!'.4 ..','. Il