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Show COKE is em FACTOR IN PROBLEM OF FUEL Mining Engineers Have Facts Presented at Insti-stitute, Insti-stitute, Now in Session. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 3. Seventy per cent more coke titan ever before will bo available (his year to help solve the fuel shortage. This supply will be further increased by tho development of tar, coke oven gas and other byproducts byprod-ucts newly dignified in war time as available avail-able fuels. The:e wore some new facts presented (o the Amerkan Instil id e of Mining 10 n in e e ra , i n sess ion h er o toda y, in their effort to fill some of the country's coun-try's needs. Putverixo coal to attain the sreatesl efficiency is Lhe theme of another fuel subject before the miniixs engineers. Some of the advantages of pulverized coal were stilted as follows: The utilizing of every heat unit in the coal, the reduction reduc-tion of labor for hamHln cixd. the maintenance main-tenance of a constant temperature in tho furnace. Tho mi n ins: engineers were alfo toM that coal mining in Washington liad proved less profitable in reccnt years because be-cause of the elreme use. of fuel oil. It w;s predicted that hiirher prices for fuel oil would increase the mining of coal on this part of the western coast. At noon today the institute paused from its business session to hoiii a memorial service for Dr. James Douglas, the noted minim? enptiteer and a former president of the institu te. whose cleat h was a severe se-vere loss to the mining industry. In tne course of today's proieedins a luncheon was held at the Broadmoor hotel. Colorado Springs, and ft recept ion and dance was attended by the members and their families. An elaborate prop-ram for the. entertainment of the ladies accompanying ac-companying the engineers is being carried out. |