Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-11
N. D. COAL
Ignite Wins Recognition Denied
for Many Years.
Capt. !. p. Baker, Federal Fuel Ad
ministrator, Shows How Ignite
Saved Suffering and Helps
Win the War.

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discouraging fight for recognition,
and never has such recognition fin.
ally come so spontaneously and SO
enthusiastically and with such man.
unity as in the case of Ignite" said
Capt, 1. p. Baker, Federal Fuel Al.
miristrator for North Dakota, in dis.
cussing the sudden leap into popu.
larity of the Flickertail fuel.
I'VE have had people right here in
central North Dakota, near the heart
of the coal fields, who nave used nc
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 it a point to
make it more strange by %exaggerat.
Ing lignite's pet peculiarities.
1T is quite another story today
Ignite has just saved North Dakota
from a bitter winter beside which
the ~deprivations the east has sui.
fered would have been as nothing.
1t would have been almost impossi.
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 were
exorbitant. 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 nee 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 a 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.
ior Lane obtains an appropriation Of
100000 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 it's 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
v%estigation of the possibilities of
fered by North Dakota Ignite fields.
FINALLY 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 upon 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
spoke at this conference, all the
wheat we can raise, all 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 nave coal for the ships
bunkers, but we must have coal tt
produce power for the manufacture
of these ships-hundreds and thous
ands Of them we must have if We
are to replace the worlds shipping
destroyed by the German U-Boa'
campaign and supply the surplus
tonnage which this great emergenc!
demands.
''For the first time in the histor,
Of the state a committee representa-,
the manufacturers of North Dakot,
In this conference went on record II
l favor Of the use Of Ignite in all o
our manufacturing enterprises, in
, sisting that 1t is a solemn duty thes'
industries W their country an,
their state as well.
Out Of all this agitation has com
q sincere appreciation Of Ignite
: The consumption mas not been In
l creased to the extent which nigh
be expected; many OF our good eli
fzens still regard Ignite as a weir
If not dangerous, sort of thing. Blu
they are slowly adopting q NOR
tolerant attitude. They are hearin
from other communities which hav
burned and liked it; they are NAL
ing up their minds to try 1t durin
the milder weather that is coming
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