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Show Ish, tooth powder and gunpowder, which he declares has a propelling force 20 per cent greater than ordinary gunpowder. gun-powder. Lockwood has leased a peat bog and Is already utilizing large quantities of it, as are his neighbors . for miles around. Vlneland, N. J - Correspondence Correspond-ence New York Tribune. EARE PEAT DISCOVERY. ' ' - Apropos of the scarcity of coal comes the announcement of Morris C. Lock-wood, Lock-wood, an inventor and chemist of Vine-land, Vine-land, that he has Just discovered a cheap process by which muck or peat can be converted into fuel briquettes far below the cost of mining coal. Lock-wood, Lock-wood, after careful Investigation and experiments, declares - that there . is enough peat in the Maurice river swamp alone to supply all South Jersey Jer-sey with fuel for generations to come, and that over in Atlantic county are hundreds of acres of the finest peat bogs In the world, running to a depth of fifteen feetN By the mixture of a chemical, at a nominal cost. It is said, the peat Is, by Lockwood's process, made into fuel briquettes, which last four times longer than coal, give heat of twice the intensity and leave less ' ashes., than does coal. -f Nor Is fuel the only available virtue that Lockwood has discovered In peat. i He asserts that he can produce from peat fuel illuminating gas of. a quality and brilliancy far superior to that de- : rived from coal, and at a much reduced cost. By the use of chemicals, Lock-wood Lock-wood converts peat, into paving blocks, which he declares are impervious 'to time and wear, and' can be manufac- tured much more cheaply than any oth-.. er kind of paving block. He also makes of peat a shingle composition as hard as adamant and of a metallic ring and as light as aluminum,' and which will last forever and compete with the slate roof shingle. 'Of this kind of material, he also makes bric-a-brac brackets and other household ornaments. 1- - Of - peat he has made building blocks of all colors col-ors far- cheaper than good bricks or building blocks can be made from other material. Made from peat. - Inventor Lockwood . exhibits in ' his laboratory carbon.' lampblack, charcoal, silver pol-y |