Show I Motor Fuel From North Dak Dakota ta Li Lignite nite ii J. J BABCOCK CK 6 dean ln c cf the North X E EJ I Dakota School of Mines Innes and au an u authority on has the success of experiments in which he has long been engaged with a view to distilling motor fuel from North Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota lignite The new fuel is a volatIle volatile volatile vola vola- tile oil distilled from the coal which underlies more than half of that State and which the United States Geographical Geographical Geographical Geo Geo- graphical Survey estimates may b be found in beds of commercial value to tc the extent of tons Dean Babcock calls his discovery motor spirit and declares that as a byproduct byproduct by by- product in the manufacture o of lignite I bY-I briquettes motor spirit can be produced produced produced pro pro- at a much lower cost than gaso gaso- line The final discovery was an accident made while Dean Babcock was using a new heat tr treatment of lignite for the purpose of expelling gas water and other products by-products in inthe the process o of ot v I A number of plants now sare s are successfully ly operating in in North Nort and South Dakota and experiments experiment with the distillation of t the e Babcoc r motor spirit are to be made in the the near The Dakota lignite is is J practically inexhaustible and may b breached bo be reached in most instances merely by stripping In few does cases the cost I of mining r reach ach 1 the ton and in ia inmany many instances it can be mined profitably profitably profitably profit profit- ably for 50 cents It is described as asa a coal of somewhat higher grade that thai the brown lignite of Cologne but as as in much the same manner It is used almost exclusively for or fuel fuelin fuelin in Central and Western North Dakota I In its native form retailing at the ton delivered a as as compared with v to 12 for for- bituminous and 15 to 17 for anthracite i coal a i |