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Show GREAT DISCOVERY BY CHARLES F. SPAULDING New Process by Which Coke Can Be Burned in 24 Hours, a Saving of One-Half From Present Pres-ent Methods. ii Tho Utah Fuel company Is negotiating for tho uso and control of a new process of coking, which promises to go far toward to-ward revolutionizing that Industry. By its uso coal is coked In less than one-half tho tlmo required for tho operations by the process now In use. whllo tho finished product is harder and firmer and contalno a higher pcrccntago of fixed carbon. The gain in lime made by the new process means that tho output of coking ovens may bo doubled with but a nominal addition addi-tion to tho original Investment, and that a better product is obtained. It Is also said that a cheaper grado of coal can bo coked than by any other process over used. Tho Inventor of this new coking process is Charles F. Spauldlng, a young civil and mining engineer of this city. Mr. Spauldlng Spauld-lng graduated from tho Michigan School of Mines at Houghton, in 1KS, whero he wa afterward an Instructor Later ho left tho school to take tho suporlntend-oncy suporlntend-oncy of the Universal Fuel company coko ovens In South Chicago for L. Z. and Jo-soph Jo-soph Loiter, for whom ho also acted as mir.o expert, and It was during his employment em-ployment there that he hit upon an Improved Im-proved method of making coke which may yot mako his fortune. It Is said that after proving to his own satisfaction the, value of his Invention Mr. Spauldlng attempted to explain Its good points to one of his employers, but that gentleman had before Investigated new coking processes and ho refused to bo shown. This rebuff placed the young engineer on his mettle and he came West with his secret looked in hla own bosom. He made no more ovortures to coko manufacturers, but ho has at times continued his experiments until lift has perfected his process and has quito recently recent-ly applied for patents. In the meantime officers of tho Utah Fuel company heard of Mr. Spauldlng's Invention and Invited him to mako a tost of It at their works. IIo accordingly fitted one of tho company's ovens at Sunnybldo with his improvements about two months ago, and tho result has been all that could bo desired. Ho has repeatedly brought down tho coke from this oven in twenty-four twenty-four to twenty-six hours, whllo tho other ovens require from forty-eight to seventy-two seventy-two hours One run from Spaulding's ovon was brought down tho other day in twenty-two hours, but ho is satisfied to claim that ho has a twenty-four-hour process, pro-cess, this being a sufficient solution of tho coking problem, with which so many hundreds hun-dreds of men havo wrestled and failed. It will bo readily seen that for such a concern con-cern as tho Utnh Fuel company, with Its lOOo coko ovens, the saving In tlmo alone iq an important Item Then, when the possibility of producing a better quality of coko from tho cheaper grades of coal is taken into consideration somo Idea Y)f tho real value of tho Invention becomes apparent. ap-parent. Mr. Spauldlng Is not yet making public tho details of his new process, but It consists con-sists mainly of tho addition of a cold blast blower to the ordinary beehive coko oven, and it is said that the cost of remodeling re-modeling an oven does not exceed S50. Cno thing Is certain, tho process Is no longer an experiment, its actual working valuo having been demonstrated to the satisfaction of officers of tho Utah Fuel company who are connected with tho coking cok-ing department. |