News Advocate | 1915-08-13 | Page 1 | Wasteful Coke Production

wasteful coke production while germany is carefully conserving sf ber her resources by coking her fuel output in product byproduct by ovens to save the valuable tar ammonia gas and the united states is lit dally throwing away these useful I 1 products to the value of millions of dollars annually by the continued use of the wasteful beehive oven in 1914 the total output of coke in the united states was 8 short hort tons valued at of this tons was made in beehive ovens with an almost to total tal loss of the products byproducts by and short tons was produced in byproduct ovens with a recovery of 0 over ver worth of hypio hy by pio pro ducts or approximately for each ton of coke As there were over tons of beehive coke mado made in 1914 and as the yield of coal in coke Is less in beehive ovens than in product byproduct by ovens the loss of products byproducts by from coal made into eike in the beehive ovens in 1914 was not less than tho the slump in copp copper er and other base metal smelt ing fol following losing the declaration of war last august vms directly responsible tor a marked decrease 1 in V the he coke production in the rocky mountain states