The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-04-05
FEDERAL AGENT
SEEKING PLACE
FOR C0A!|I..L|.P A. PLANT
Fuel Engineer of Bureau of
Mines to Locate Briquet-
ting Works
UTILIZE Ignite DEPOSITS

DR.. S. M. Darling Believes
North Dakota Will Some Day
Rank With Pennsylvania
Hettinger. April :5i.--siyr. IS Ni.tilnrl-
ing! fnel engineer Of the United States
bureau Of mines. Washington. ID. c..
and former Congressman p: u, Norton
of Mandan have spent the past Week
examining some. Of the Ignite coal
mining properties III this part Of the.
state. Mr.. Norton is A ACCOMMODATING
,tyr. Darling u, " shr5 Of inspection OF
OF the Ignite coal mines Of the
Missouri slope country. They have al
ready visited the mines at New Salem,
Nett. Hayelock., Regent Dickinson.
Bowman. Scranton. and Haynes. Dr.
Darling cnme to til" state two weeks
ago directly from Washington. II t,..
,at the suggestion OF Mr.. Norton to
make Il survey OF a number Of the lig
mite cuat mines IN the western part Of
the state for the lnlrolese of ,ltterminl
Ing upon a location where the United
states bureau Of mines will cnnstru,
n ignite coal carbonizing ana briquel-
ting plant for the purpose Of carrying
on work and experiments to demon
strate the commercial practicabilityof
icarhonizing and briquettins Ignite
coal. Mr., Norton. who las for. nun
Der Of years been one Of the states
most earnest and enthusiastic workers
for the greater development and use
of the vast Ignite coal deposits in
western North Dakota has recently
hnen successful in prevailing upon. the
United States bureau of mines to ar
range the carrying on co-operativ.
work fl one OF the ignite coal mining
companies Of western North Dakota in
a large specially devised carboniziny
and briquetting plant to clearly dem
Sonstrate to private capital the cons
marcial practicability Of carbonizing
and briqnetting Ignite. coal and to
make clear the handsome profits that
can be- made on capital invested in
such an industry
1t Isl purposed, by the United States
bureau Of mines to build in the stare
A carboMzins and Driquetting plant to
cost $l5O.OOO to Garry on the demon.
stratfOns Determined upon. The plan
to be followed will l,e3 to br.quptte car
IE-bOhize,l slignitts eoal.. The y i,riqupttes
will have Il fuel value equal to the
best anthracite coal and will be mar
keted for all the purposes that AN
thracite coal is now used.
The great Ignite coal fields of west
erll North Dakota. the largest coal
fields in the world. containing deposits
Of coal estimated by the United States
bureau Of mines to exceed over 600.
600 900 COO tons are, Mr.. Norton main
tains. the most marvelously rich nat
uyal resources, of the, state. Within
the next few years he perdicts the de
veloMment Of these vast Ignite coal
fields will bring, gleater wealth to tha
people of the state than has been
brought to PENNSYLVANIA or any other
state by anthracite or bitumiAous coal
mining. The successful demonstra-
ton in the state by the United States
bureau Of mines Of the commercial
practicablity Of carbonizing and bri
qnetting Ignite coal will-be certain to
at once attract a wealth Of capital and
experienced coal mining operators
from the east to open mp and develop
the incommrably rich Ignite coal de-
b0sits that now underlay most Of tn"
western part Of the state. With the
successful carbonizing and briquettins
Of Ignite coal onIa profitable c0nmer-
cial basis will then follow. Mr:i NsaTtOn
points Out, the establishment iW.the
state Of manufacturing industries tsof
many kinds in which the statess;iS:@ HOW
in SO much need. 1t is predicted by
those who are in a position to know
and who have studied the domestic
and the power fuel needs of the nation
and the diminishing coal fields in the
east. that within the next two decades
he richest and most pOpul0us cities Of
North Dakota will lie located near the
large coal fields of the state. The sue.
!cessful demonstration by the federal
government Of the commercial prac
ticability Of carbonizing and briquet.
ting Ignite coal will. Mr.. Norton he
lieves. he followed by a now almost
unthOught Of and undrealned Of 'dpvel
opment Of electrical power for heating.
lighting, manufacturing. railroa,
transportation and agricultural hses
It will not lie many years hence. Mr.
Norton is convinced until the motive
power for the network OFF railroads
covering the state is furnished by elec.
/ tricity generated ut the liginte coal
mines in western North Dakota and il
will not he many ears hence until the
iron ore from the worlds greatest iron
mines III near by northern Minnesota
is smelted. refined and manufactured
near the mine from which it is taken
by the use Of North Dakota's carbon
| lied Ignite coal.
/ DR.. Darling has for the past twelve
years closely followed and studied the
developments Of the utilization Of lig
mite coal and its various by-prOducts
in this and in forcing countries. Fol
four years DR.. Darling was employed
by the Canadian government in thi.
work and during that time made and
demonstrated some most valuable ex
periments in the utilization Of car
| bonized Ignite in gas producer en-
gines. For the last two years he has
| had cha rye nf tho Ignite coal and ths