Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-25 | Page 1 | Leads Marines Who Are Sent Cuba

t I Leads Marines Who I I Are Sent to Cuba t L I FORTY TONS OF COAl DISCHARGED DAilY INTO AIR OF CITY Beckstrand Says Experiments at University May Make Smokeless F Fuel el Possible F FORTY OnTY tons of ot coal are re discharged ed I 1 Into the air of Salt Lake In lr the form Corm of or dally during the winter winter winter win win- ter an and smokeless coal is the best remedy according to Prof Proto i E E. E if ir Beckstrand Beckstrand Beck Beck- stran strand head ad of the mechanical engineering engi engi- I department of or the University of ot Utah J in iti n a lect lecture ure on The Smoke i Nuisance in n Salt Lake JAke Three hundred I and tift fifty thousand tons of coal coni aro are aroI burned In the city I annually declared declare I the speaker an and 2 per pei cent of or this i Is I discharged ch lr ed Into the air all he sa said Ill Th The i lecture was the second in a series be be- ing delivered ell cr d at the university Professor Be stated that ho he I considered d his estimates very conserva ti tive ie as In London 6 per percent nt ce-nt of or tho coal eba I coms consumed med Is converted con into hilo inoke H H. said sala that the population n of or Salt Lako Lak I h has increased 75 iii rn j sl slen i t en ten n years year ear and r d tl c. c use Of t coal h has basin s- s sin In- In creaMed pro proportionately orton toly The protes professor sor SOl estimated th that t If It the population I of Salt Lake Increases In the the- thes same sini s me ratio In the next ten years arf and If It th the coal consumption Increases only 50 per percent ei cen cent t sixty tons of or coal will win be In th the 3 atmosphere dally daily alJ during the winter r rm m months o a t Ii s. s ProC Professor suggested tw two remedies to alleviate this nuisance nuisance- one the u use e of ot coke which ho he said al wa was S Impractical for several reasons an anthe and the other treatment of ot the coal so a ato aRto as aR asto to rend render r It smokeless He lie said that tha t the university has made several experIments experiments exper exper- that have shown that this plan plan ii Is possible The lecturer said ald that no amount o of or C legislation would woul fully remedy the matter matter mat mat- ter as 15 the tho numb number r of or homes with furnaces furnaces fur fur- naces Is constantly Increasing an and legislation leg leg- could only onh affect the business buildings hotels and laundries