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Show MAKING TESTS 5 OF UTAH (Ml - ? POSSIBILITIES OF FUEL IN- 4 TERESTS EASTERNERS. 4 H Chief Engineer of the Consolidn- $ tlon Coal Company of ltatti more Is Making Exhaustive ? Experiments With the Carton and Emery Coals For Dyes. j 5 Jnmcs Hnslip, chief engineer f for the Consolidation Coal com- 1 pany of Baltimore, which has j been conducting experiments with Carbon and Emery county . coals to determine their coke- making possibilities and the J amount of coal tar which IsLJ given off by the coal as it Is J baked In the coke ovens, is nt the I J Ncwhouse Hotel, says Tuesday's Herald-Republican. . The claim hns been made that the Utah coal gives off more coal tar than nny other soft conl J in the Unitod States nnd while the Consolidation company Is . primarily a mining company, it -is comparing the conl tar capa-j city of all the soft coals of the United SUitcs, ns It desires to make a report to tho American Coal Tar Dye 'company of Baltimore Balti-more ns to what coal in the country coun-try is best adapted to producing conl tar. Several companies in the East arc conducting experiments In connection with the mnklng of conl tar dyes. In Virginia two factories have been built to manufacture dyes, and while they nre somewhat of an experiment, experi-ment, it is nsserted by persons connected with the companies thnt as soon as they can get tar cheaply they will begin mnklng dyes on a commercial basis. "Since tho war started in Europe, the dye imports havo been cut down materially," says Hnslip. "No dyestuffs are coming com-ing out of Germany because of no ships running between tho United States and Germnn porta. Most of the dyes we receive In this country come from Switzerland. Switzer-land. The importers have been trying for a year to determine upon n method of getting dye-stuffs dye-stuffs to this country, but no one has been willing to undertake under-take the manufacture of them. The Germans control the pnt-ents pnt-ents nnd the process 1b secret. Wc can work out a process of our own, but then our process is a grent deal more expensive. After Af-ter the war the American fnc-torics fnc-torics could not compete with the Germnn factories. "We have tested the coal in Pennsylvania, West VIrglnIn, Ohio, Illinois nnd Wyoming. Our experiments with Utah coal have not been completed. Wyo- mlng coal shows n good grade of tar, but the coal does not seem to havo the hnrdness to make the tar firm. Experiments have proved Eastern coals to be expensive. ex-pensive. It is just n matter of tho cheapest coal producing the greatest amount of tar with us. 1 am experimenting for the dye company, but nm connected with the Consolidation Conl company. Owing to my studying the chemical chem-ical methods of producing dye-stuffs dye-stuffs in German universities, I was sent out hero by the coal company. Several of the big stockholders in tho coal company are Interested In tho dyestuffs company." |
