The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-05-05
GOVERNMENT TO
SPEND 100000
ON LlGNITE AID
Will Erect Briquetting Plant at
New Salem for New
Company
WILL CARBONIZE FUEL
Experts Claim New Method Will
RevOluti0nize Industry
in State

With an appropriation of 100000
from the United States government,
model briquetting plant is to be
erected at New Salem soon, which
it's promoters claim will completely
revolutionize the Ignite coal indus
try.
BY a process of carbOnizing the
raw Ignite coal, all invention made
entirely practical by experts i'm the
United States bureau of mines at
Washington, Ignite briquet will be
manufact ctured which will enable the
company to compete with Pennsyl-
vania high grade anthracite coal over
territory extending eastward as far
as halfway between this point and
Pennsylvania.
The concern is known as the Con-
solidated Ignite Galleries company
of New Salem with capitalization
of 100000, all of which has been
subscribed, partly, in this state and
partly in the east. The officers Of
the company, which has over 300
stockholders are Peter Roth, New
Salem, president; John B. Adams
Bismarck, secretary and treasurer.
These officers together with the fol-
lowing comprise the directorate: NJ.
Baumgartner. Strassburg; }. Berreth,
New Salem and Fred Bremier, Bis.
marck.
Government to Build
Under a contract with the govern
ment just approved by the depart
ment of the interior, bureau of mines,
the government agrees to erect a
building 30 by 200 feet and install
briquetting and by-product machinery
at an estimated cost of $I3O'OO0. The
contract provides that the govern.
ment will turn over going concern
to the Consolidated Lignite Colleries
company.
The plant will have a capacity of
$50 tons of Ignite briquets daily by
using only one oven. This represents
a daily consumption of 225 tons Of
Ignite coal.
The plant will be able to operate
II months Of the year as the briquets
manufactured can be stored for an
indefinite period under the govern
ment's system of manufacture. With
two more ovens added, daily output
Of 45U tons of briquets can be main
tanned with the same machinery.
Directors Well Known
All of the officers and directors Of
the company are prominently known
in the central part of the state. Mr..
Bremier is the director Of the division
of public utilities Of the state rail
road commission, while Mr. Adams
has been chief accountant with the
railroad commission, having resigned
his position April to become ac-
lively connected with the Ignite bri-
quoting company.
Under the contract with the govern
ment, the bureau of mines is expected
to provide s25 900 additional for the
purpose of developing the by-pro-
ducts Of the briqueting process. 1t is
claimed that substitute for gasoline.
obtained from the coal during the
briqueting.
History Of Ignite
The following appeared in the
United States bureau Of mines tech
nical paper us covering the charac-
teristics and utilization of Ignite pre-
pared by S. M. Darling:
"Lignite is brown, dull, markedly
woody in texture. has no coking quail
tiles whatever, carries a great per
centage of moisture, which it gives
up readily: it's disintegratiOn on eX-
posure is so rapid as largely to pre-
vent shipment any distance except
during excessive cold northern Win
ters. when it is frozen. Ligntes are
found in those parts of the country
where no other solid fuel is avail
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