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THE NEED FOR CONTINUANCE IN
WELL-DOING.
Now that the coal strike is upon us,
it may be interesting to the people of
the United States to know that they
spent approximately $1,500,000.000 last
year for fuel for the production of
power, light and heat. With the steady
increase in the number of our manu-
facturing industries, our need for fuel
is not likely to diminish as the years go
by, nor is it probable that our annual
expenditure for the material with
which to produce power, light and heat
will become less. In view of our ac-
cumulating needs and the growing dif-
ficulty we may have in meeting them:
the statements recently made by Gov-
ernment experts and referred to the
Senate Committee on the Geological
Survey are Ssuch as may well make
every pacriot pause.
These statements are to the effect
that the losses in the utilization of fuel
for the development of power, light and
heat under existing conditions are so
great that in a ton of coal consumed in
an ordinary manufacturing plant less
than 5 per cent. of the total energy is
available for the actual work of manu-
facturing ; that in an ordinary locomo-
tive only from 3 to 5 per cent. of the
fuel energy is obtained for pulling the
train; that in our houses ordinarily not
more than one-seventh of 1 per cent.
of the fuel energy is actually trans-
formed into electric light; that gases
from the blast furnaces of the country
are now lost in the atmosphere that
would yield continuously, if properly
utilized, more than 2,500,000 horse-
power ; and that by-products might be
gaved from the 40,000,000 tons of coal
which we now convert into coke that
would have an aggregate yearly value
much greater than that of the coke
itselt. These by-products would in-
clude ammonium sulphate sufficient to
fertilize our farms, creosote for the
preservation of our timber, and pitch
enough for briquetting our slack coals,
roofing our houses, and repairing some
of our roads.
How appalling that such waste should
continue after we know that it exists!
Unfortunately, it is not always clear
even to those who best understand the
nature and uses’ of coal how such
economies may be effected. No meth-
ods, for instance, are known by which
more than one-sixth of the nitrogen in
coal can be saved in the manufacture
of coke. There is no subject touching
the welfare of the human race on which
research is more needed than economy
in the use of fuel.
The results of the fuel investigations
conducted at St. Louis during the Lou-
isiana Purchase Exposition by mem-
bers of the United States Geological
Survey are so encouraging to both
producers and consumers of coal that
the nation may well take to heart the
continuance of those investigations.
Persons desirous of knowing more
about this work should apply to the
Director of the United States Geolog-
ical Survey for Professional Paper No.
48. In comparison with tke immense
sum annually expended for fuels, the
amount of money necessary to carry
on this work for several years seems n
mere trifle, especially when the mag-
nitude of the interests involved is con-
sidered. The recommendation of the
Director of the United States Geolog-
ical Survey that the sum of $250,000 be
appropriated by Congress for the in-
vestigation of the coals, lignites, and
other fuel substances of the United
States during the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1907, should therefore meet
with the enthusiastic approval of the
whole people, since it is a matter that
concerns every citizen.
It should not be forgotten that work
of this kind is necessarily expensive.
It must be done with the greatest pos-
sible care and on a scale sufficiently
large to commond public attention.
Every test must be extended over a
period of from 8 to 6 days, and many
of them over a longer period, during
which time it is necessary to employ 2
or 3 shifts of men so that the work
may be constantly under supervision.
Not only must the experts in charge of
the work be men of the highest train-
ing and experience, but even the ordi-
nary workmen must be selected with
care and must be given such compensa-
tion as will make them willing to ren-
der proper service. Finally, the equip-
ment mustinot only be the best obtain-
able, but it mustibe kept accurately ad-
justed and must be in duplicate, so that
there need be no delays in case of ac-
cident to any part of the machinery.
By the close of the present fiscal year
the Survey will have completed a series
of general comparative fuel tests of
coals from many of the beds already
developed in the more important fields.
It happensthowever, that even during
the progress of this work, new beds
have been opened up in the older min-
ingl8States, such as West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, as well as in Alabama, Towa
and thelWestern States, in which the
coalffor lignite, i# quite unlike that
tested’fromfthejhigher or lower beds.
If Congress decides to appropriate
money for the®continuance of the in-
vestigation, the fuel in these new beds
will be tested, and an attempt will also
be made to solve many problems con-
nected withthe deposits in the old
beds whieh, for lack of time and money,
have not yet been seriously considered.
Certain typical coals and lignites will
be veleeted from ench of the’ lnrger
fields »wnd thoroughly studied as to the
conditions under which they may be
used to the best advaniage. The ef-
will thus be in-
crensed nnd the regions they represent
will be benefited. A detailed investi-
gation of this character ix indeed abso-
lutely necessary before many of the
valuable resultz already obtained can
be made available for general practice.
ree A
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
ficiency of the conls
Wm. H. ‘Walker to Chas. H. Trimpey,
in Stonycreek, $10,092.
Joseph Kreger to Samuel Robinson,
in Lower Turkeyfoot, $200.
Isaac Rishel to Minnie M. Bowman,
in Milford, $7000. .
N. W. Sullivan to Milton J. Shank, in
Somerset Twp, $9000.
Elias G. Bittner to Simon
in Lincoln, $7000.
Wm. W. Young to Resley J. Stevan-
us, in Somerset Twp., $5000.
Charles E. Weller to Wi. W. Young,
in Somerset Twp., $75.
Albert M. Hechlerto Edward Hoover,
in Somerset Twp., $1500.
Frederick Pile to D. B. Zimmerman,
in Somerset Twp., $2402.
Luke Kane to J. C. McSpadden, in
Rockwood, $400.
Barbara 8. Dallas to Dorothy Pile, in
Somerset Twp., $475.
Hnrvey Fike to Abraham Kinsinger,
in Summir, $1767.
C. W. Weigle to Elizabeth Gindle-
sperger, Hooversville, $100.
Jacob 8. Barkman to Walter C. Beck,
in Milford, $4800.
Joel Gnagy to Conrad §Herwig, in
Summit $6000.
John H. Seibert to Wm. Bowman, in
Somerset Twp., $800.
Nelson N. Cupp to Henry Bausman,
in Addison, $3800.
Valentine Hay to C. A. Weisel, in
Milford, $90.
Amelia A. Hay to Leonard B. Miller,
in Conemaugh, $6000. .
Ira V. Rush to Generva King, in Con-
fluence, $500.
John 8S. Rhoads to Mary A. Barndt,
in Quemahoning, $1050.
Joseph 8. Miller to Wm. H. Martz, in
Summit, $9000.
Wm. Berkey to Jeremiah Berkey, in
Quemahoning, $4471.
Wesley E. Trostle to D. B. Zimmer-
man. in Quemuhoning, $7650.
Jeremiah Berkey to same, in Quema-
honing, $11,223. a
John Gindlesperger to Quemahoning
Coal Co., $250.
John H. Brunner to Moses Bisel, in
Jefferson, $1000.
Bena lloffman to Elmer Ream, in
Paint Twp., $250.
Wilmore Coal Co. to C. W. Wagner,
in Windber, $2765.
George Cobaugh to Nancy Smith, in
Quemahoning, $400.
Ella F. S. Zufall to Edna Fisher, in
Confluence, $800.
Ada Lape et al. to J. M. Griffith, in
Jenner, $1600.
Jerome Stufft to James B. W. Stufft,
in Quemahoning, $7000.
Jerome Stufft to Daniel G. Stufft, in
Quemahoning. $9000.
Israel Berkley to Samuel S. Berkley,
in Somerset Twp., $1000.
Emily Traft to Frank Shaulis, in Som-
erset Twp., $300.
Wm. J. Baer to 8. Lenhart, in Somer-
set Twp., $275.
Josephine Daugherty to C. U. & W.
R. R. Co., in Larimer, $200.
John M. Wright to Charles B. Dickey,
in Elk Lick, $18,000.
Jerome Fyock to Margaret Custer, in
Paint Bor., $2200.
Catharine Walker to Elizabeth Cook,
in Meyersdale, $700.
Isaiah Heinbaugh to Levi Heinbaugh,
in Upper Turkeyfoot. $100.
— ee.
P. Baker,
No Longer in the Buckwheat Class.
Somerset county is no longer in the
granger class. The Frosty Sons of
Thunder have become coal barons and
industrial magnates. Railroads and
trolley lines, telegraphs and telephones,
coal mines and coke works with their
attendant features, including strikes
and riots, water and electric lighting
companies, sanitariums and summer
resorts, lumber mills and tanneries,
brick manufactories and stone quar-
ries, dot the land once given over to
buckwheat and maple sugar. In the
march of development and progress,
Somerset county maintains a place at
the front, and in politics she is as stren-
uous as ever.—Connellsville Courier.
Yes, we are no longer confined to the
buckwheat class, but yet good old Som-
erset county is as famous for buck-
wheat and maple sugar as ever. The
finest buckwheat cakes in the world
are baked in the families of the Frosty
Sons of Thunder, and for high grade
and unadulterated maple. sugar and
syrup. we have all the rest of the world,
even including Vermont, skinned to a
finish.
Another thing good old Somerset
county leads the world in is good old
country cured ham. The man who has
not yet tasted the heavenly hams cured
by the farmers of Somerset county, Pa.,
has yet to learn what the best ham in
the world tastes like.
You may talk about your jellies,
your pastries and your jam, you may
boast about the oyster and the clam,
We know they’re all good eatin’—jyes,
so ig beef and lamb; but all the same
they lack the fame of Somerset county
ham.
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Cloverseed at $8.75 per bushel.
These are only a few of the many bargains.
Timothyseed at $1.75.
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