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Show Work of Bureau of Mines Results in Saving Millions Annual Report Issued Today Details What Government Gov-ernment Is Doing to Aid Development of Mineral Industries. 7 V-.IIINLTON Doc "0 What hl the bu te 1 btatc b ea ot V DCs s do to a d n the de elop cnt ot n i ral ud s tr es n th t, o b gf,e t j, lie and bettor ncth ds ot an tn t c b &toi p nr th a to ot 1 ab e n ue al e o r s a lb s tg st uj, es to n ate a t o g o be ot o pa t ula al e et led b the d e to " a II Ma uig n th aun al eport oi the bureau to th h al ear end ng J ne 30 191o ss e I todaj The report a e es of hapte s of b g md str al a h e en ents bj 4.n er can n a ta t e ot n 1 o s ot lol lars hi el ot heretofore elesg stc mat al t ned u o profitable d t y of e v ind str es e ng created to nan fa t ro vhat as for orl leeu n po to 1 a d ot 1 o seq u go ng n 1 str al ndc enden c of t e Un ted btates The beg nn g ot the Lu opea v r and the an tt ug off ot e ta u an factured i ports s sa d to ha e spurre 1 th s go ernn ent agency tq renewed an 1 more deter n ned efforts n behalf of the people and tl e results are show nan mber of nd st es that ha e been aided. Aids Dje makers, When the eatportat on of coal tar products by Germany was stopped by the wa and man facturers who se dves and those who make explos ves could not obta n the necessary mgredi ents the bureau called attention to the fact that there was n this country a great abundance of raw nater al and that $ o 000 000 worth of these prod utts were being wasted each ea through the use of the beehive coke oven instead of the bv prod ct oven It rged a cautious bu ldmg up of the industry and the result has been the construction ot add t on a b product coL.e o ens that have added to the yearly outp t several n llhon gallons ot benzol needed in chemical manufac tures ' The bureau at the safme time ga e to $he country a process de sed bv one of ts chemists Dr W F Rittman for the manufacture from petroleum of benzol and toluol used in the man nfacture of dyes and high explosives This process has since been demon strated on a commercial scale Its importance to this country lies m the f,act that it g ves the United States an important sou roe of material use ful in the mak ng of high explosives something it did not have before Dr Kittman also devised a process which will enable refiners to increase the out pat of gasoline from crude petroleum 900 per cent or even more the patent right to th s process to be dedicated to the p bl c to prevent monopoly Big Saving in Gas The bureau has developed that the fosse to the -oil and natural gas industry tn a year s time through careless ana reckless exploitation amounts to $o0 000 000 ana "has devised and demon strated a practical process for drilling wells by which the waste of gas and the invasion of water may be stopped, thus saving in a single state natural gas worth more than $15,000 000 , Looking into the future the bureau is w estigating the vast deposits of the so called oil shales of Utah and Colo rado believing that the oil supply will come from them and at no distant pe nod These shales it is said rival as sources of petroleum the oil shales of Scotland and New South Wales which havebeen profitably exploited in spite of the continued competition of oil from Other sources The studying of the combust on of coal by experts of the bureau has led to certain information that calls for new designs for furnaces which will prove more economical The investigations have disclosed that in many manufac tunng plants the space in the furnace where the coal is burned is not suf ficient and eeonom cal burning of the coal is impossible This information is to be given to the manufacturers of .boilers so that the designs may be al tered to snit the cond tions Developing Gasf producer The experts of the bureau have been endeavoring to de elop the use of what s known as the gas producer which burns a much lower grade of cal than the steam bo ler and produces bwer, t is sa d at less expense than other methods They deplore the tendency in this country toward the almost ex elusive use of high grade coals and point to the ruthless waste and neglect of low grade fuels which is in sharp contrast to the s tuation in Europe Jt s the expectation of these experts to 1 ve to see the ra lroads of the countrj operated bv electr city obtain ng the r fiower from gigantic gas produoer plants ocated at the mines The bureau, n co operat on w th the Lniversity of North Dakota has been endeavoring to give a help ng hand to the west in its rather difficult problem of burning lign te coal of which there are vast areas in North Dakota and the ne ghboring states The burea is a ra ng to develop better ai pi anees for b r ng the 1 gn te and for 1 ta n g the val able by products from t Cheaper Radium Process St II another industry may levelo from the s ggest ons made by the b rea as to the se of peat as a f el nl fo ts val able by prod c ts The bu rea Icclares that the v v extens ve neat b is of h I n to Htates con ta n a g cat an 1 neg cctcd ho c ol on b ned n trogen ea ly con ert ben to ammo a wn 1 s one of the nos a He an I oat v onst t ents f hen al fert I zer an 1 h n w n p tel n largo quant t e f om E ro pean o ntries The V ea s expurt on feat de la es tl a the n t at on n M u nesota where great ron n nes are now be ng worked w th coal brought more than a tho sen 1 miles s nnecess r lie int mates that a plant for t n ng oeat nto ts by prod ts v 11 pav fn tself to s ch an cxt nt as to t, c fower free to the mines It s yo ntel t that an the nl try has been a lei to a g a -xton by the dev s ng of a new p o ess f the making or rad m f on tl r not te ores of "olo alo a d T ah h ost of mak ng a 1 h p o e be ng ho 1 w I t gn e ow ed re at 1c sL n n rl I t the ho tHi n 1 an 1 r H " h1" nen of a er a a ng iM6 00 for eg h gra n of tho price that hal u n by foregfn dealers The ijarean ne 1 tha h 1 In ted States wai ether ast ng or e ect ng to se hite ch na clays n the o tl th s count y was mport ncr ea h year more than $10 000 000 0 ch na and porcela n and u add t on a a ter of i a 11 on tons ot cl na wb ch was ma tact red here nto r ous tons ot te ware The b ea has al ead not fie 1 tl e ndus tr that the la de os ts of the soutl a e as a le as good as an be ob tau ed anvwhe e son e ot the cla s be ng ren arkably wh te and eq al n q al tv to a 3 mported Bulletin on Brass it tl e s ggest on of the American Inst te ot Metals the b rea went to the a d ot brass n anufact rers and ndertool a st d ot the relat e ef 1 encv of the varots furnaces n or le to stop a o s of no e tha $ 0 000 a ea The b reau late y b hel a b llet u wh ch has become a aln o t un e sallv used ba dbook among the 1 ra s foundeis and s. e suiting in greater efflciencv a d in the pie ent on of metal losses The b rea n akes the statement that n an brass to ders have changed the r etbods and ha e applied the remedies po nted o t Tho marble quarry ng industrv has also felt the a d of the bureau Stra n breal s result ng from rock stresses have ca sed heavy losses in many quar ries and the b reau set about w th the co operat on of a marble company to st dv the cond t ons The result 9 that a method has been devised of rel e ing the rock pressure so aB to pre ent destruct ve fractur ng and, as a on&eq en e g eat n a ses of valua ble n arblc that o he se wo Id be wasted are no v 1 1 zed |
