The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO AS DOMINANT IN NO. DAKOTA ssibilities Sees New Pe OUTLINES NEW Fuel Supply Well Fitted To; Repl: the High Tariff | Rules of Eastern States | By Herbert A, Hard lood Control Commission ttention has just been called to a recent editorial in the Grand Forks Herald, strongly endorsing the letter Yon. F. W. MeLean,| published in the Herald and Tribune, callings for development of | North Dakota lignite as a definite, ngible means whereby the bankers nd business men of the ninth dis triet may actually olve the | ent agricultural eri y the plan is not given as ver-night, give results in ding in marketing this years crop, trike the practical business man and engineer in fuel- operation as being one of the really sane sug-j| gestions given among the many un- fi suggestions to help agricul- ile The lignite producing states aro! fast learning that their local fuel ig) emminently fitted to replace the | sh tariff eastern fuels in all or- ary heat and power plants, This especially true when they stop to| consider that over half the coal | cost represents its own freight costs, ay nothing of the several un- necessary middleman charges. But it is another matter which s plan involves; that of zing the. form of , power used on farms and in towns along the lines of the great over-state | electric cables proposed, leading} from central generating plants to be located near the lignite beds, along the Missouri River. The feasibility of this must final- ly be tested on two scores; 1st.—the ability of the business men, railroads and farmers to see clearly that the use of electricity in their operations is practical in any large degree; —Is the generation of elec-| y from lignite and its trans- on over lines 2, 3, or 5 hundred miles, now technically practicable} from a sound engineering stand- point? Stating the conclusion first, we will say that they are not only en- tirely feasible but they are in set- tled, stable operation in several states, as notably California, where water and other power are success- fully operating all kinds of plants over several hundreds of miles of eable. Many arge plants have also used lignite for the production of cheap electricity. Where it is possible to convert its energy at the mine, this is very feasible, as it entirely e! minates the enormous freight charges on so gross, bulky commodi- ty as coal, Time was when it was impracticable to economically trans- mit electricity any considerable tances owing to the great losses en- ‘route. Now, with the comparative | recent pewfection of copper cables of | large diameter, and the transmission of electricity under under high po- tential, it is but a matter of ordin- ary practice to send it several hun- dred of miles without serious loss. North Dakota Conditions Thus, interpreting the facts to ac- tual North Dakota’ conditions, it is now entirely practical to generate electricity at or near the great lig- nite mines in the Slope, and send it iby great trunk lines to the Red river valley and the twin cities. It is suggested that these producing plants be placed one near Minot and another in the Bismarck territory. Trunk transmission lines, paralleling ~ the Northern Pacific, Soo and Great Northern lines will serve these rail- roads as large customers, saving, to them enormous freightage on east- ern coals. “These lines will ulti- mately be thus electrified, or through their own generators, through the Dakotas as are the Mil- waukee and other lines through the mountains, Traffic expért Williams of Fargo, thas recently handled the lignite data to answer the railroads demand for high freight‘on the score that east- ern coals cost them so much for fuel for operation In turn they are urg- ed to revolutionize their system and use lignite, converted into electrici- ty. The claim is made that it takes a car of coal to deliver a car of cog! to the distant consumer, or that they use half their coal in operat: Qn the other hand several railroad officials have privately stated their agreement with the fact that the time. is fast coming, if not. here when their lines through Dakota and Montane mst be electrified owing to the apalling cost and waste in the use of coal. The figures we have fand PLAN); U may be cheaply irom’ () states costs but a few cents per kilowat hour. It] i be 80 Jit can be used on all stationary work on the farm, and ultimately to cer- jtain traction operations just as fast | financially | install |change in machinery type; and this, Herbert A. Hard, Secretary of| il! only he, after he recovers from) South American Bandits Op- leflation’ and is Flood Control Commission, § permitted “cost of production plus} jar lighted comparatively “juice” that in other is also found that power can delivered at rates cheap enough | | the owner ‘becomes and as |sound again, able ty this present acute onable profit’. Anyone fam{- liar with actual farm now, knows that the old machinery harness have been cele up many times to make them“Tast, that there will be small loss in junking them for a different type of outfit! Again, if the farmer does, as he now intends,—divers more in the future, he will find it the ch time to shift to some electrical ma- chinery, Not that there will be 2 ‘sudden turn-over to a large use of| | electricity, but, the ‘production costs’ plainly show that ¢ tricity, will permit the gradual in- crease in use in) many ordinary operations, allowing one to get along go| with less hired help and few horses.) Brazilian regions which border on on this uninformed, elsewhere If the cost data compi does not convince the the actual operations should do so. Low Freight Means Profit That which reduces cost of haul- freight should directly benefit er and merchant by lowering his ce of operation and increase of profits. While cost of electric in- stilla on railroads is high, one it is ablished the cost of opera tion on many lines ha startlin| drop to one half or even one third of steam operation cost. No more long trains of coal used simply to make the fic go! Electricity i the wires at low cost on the ht of way, and is taken off when wanted. The writer’s research in this for the state and in many oth- er angles of operation, convince him as it does any engineer that‘the fu- ture power in the great plains states is electricity, largely from lignite. Revolutionize Railroads Considering maintenance of rol- ling stock alone, the cost is vastly greater with steam equipment, Elec- tric motors were longer and hit the turnstile for repairs just about HALF as frequently as engines, are out of commission about half as much of the time and have, about half the repair cost with their light- er equipment. Henry Ford has cor- rectly sensed the fact that rolling stock must be lighter, though not less strong, and that the present heavy equipment is viciously waste- ful. . The revolution of rail and other power will reflect at least 25 cents a bushel profit in grain production in the northwest, according to the present estimates. The St. Lawrence waterway, fully developed, will add another dime to the bushel of wheat profit on Liverpool. .Nor are the above statements just the hopes or ing mn are based on a consensus of care- fully worked out data in agreement with the recent findings of rail and federal engineers. Possibilities Unlimited So much for the railroads and for the general situation in electrical development; a later article will show no less startling results in the practical application of lignite pro- duced electricity to ordinary mill and farm operations, with cheap power applied to supplant man and horse power in doing in a few hours, that which now requires days and weeks of time and hard manual la- bor, Electricity is practicable from lig- nite at a few cents a kilowat hour, in comparison with the present pro- hibitive prices of steam’ produced electricity. What a transformation it will make in small town and large, and on the farm, If you, Mr. Busi- ness man, pass this as “utopian dream”, remember the marvels in au- to and air navigation and in the ra- dio! .It is built on even more tangi- ble data. . Lignite Unlimited there lack of lignite in sight. My work for the state and federal governments indicates that there are 600,000,000 tons of lignite in North Dakota alone. This ap- pears in beds over four feet thick, and underlying just abeut the west half of the state, These beds are of- ten 10 to 25 feet thick and may reach 35 feet. Further, there are any where from one to, seven of these immense beds lying one below the other; an unlimited resources for the future, | MANDAN NEWS. HIGH SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN MANDAN GIVEN Now is " preparéd on this, read like fiction to “the: public. The average man is at first, ine the st is added the loss at the loss from overloading. to ‘#leaks”, before the fuel is, : : Masons Also-Let Contract for , Excavation for Masonic : '” Temple Contracts were awatded in Mandan last night to Redlinger and Hansen, haul coal, snd # seore| Wahpeton, at $82,000 for the genoral contract, Moorhead plumbing and heating company at $19,333.00 and the ‘|'Swin City Electrical Company, Wah- im, iret unit of the n~1 ‘schobl _ building e built this fall. This be niaes to during a peton. $2,000 kd conditions | s Days in U.S. | French Guiana and Other imaginings of ‘local engineers! They | ~ RICH HARVEST ON BORDER erate as in Frontier |NO POLICE PROTECTION | Outlaws Are Escaped Convicts | From Penal Colony in Places pt. 29.—Frontier | activities that bring to mind the stir- ring times of Daniel Boone,are being | neporteg in the Jocal press from the | Venezuela and the Guianas, Accord- jing to these sto and to reports that have been yiade from the trou- \ble zones to the'government, cdntra- |band runners, clandestine gold min- jers, and various kinds of desperados | have been crossing the frontiers into | Brazil in increasing numbers and j have been leaving trails of blood and | ruin. The vast, regions of the Amazon | valley, which are but sparsely inhab- ited, contain many forms of wealth hat are within the reach of ruth- | less outlaws who act in small groups, as well as in big and powerful or- | fanizations, It is reported that for- |tunes in gold and precious stones \have been panned from the gravels j of the northern streams of Brazil by | outlaw miners; that’ rosewood, ma- |-hggany, ebony and other precious | w8ods have been stolen from Brazil- | ian forests, that cattle have been run | off the poorly protected ranches, and the crops of outlaying settlement farms boldly pilfered by raiders. The reports add that these outlaw activ- ities have resulted in many bloody clashes between local inhabitants and bands of frontier runners. The ‘fact that boundary lines run through trackless wilderness make it almost impossible to establish effec- tive police protection. The few mil- itary posts of the Brazilian govern- ment and her neighbors are lost in the vastness of the zones they are supposed to patrol. Are Convicts. The outlaws are escaped convicts | from the penal colony in French Gui ana, negroes from Barbados, Mar- {tinique and Trinidad, riff-raff from English and Dutch Guiana, and ad- ventures from Venezuela. French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Indian dialects are mixed into a general regional language. The size HAGEN, SA: ¥. Pelham Manor, Walter Hagen and Gen were all even when they 18 holes today in final match for the golfers association Hagen after losing the evened the match at tl first cond championghi hol and lost a hole sevéral times Sarazen evened the eight. MAYO EXPLAINS CANCER CURE Says There Is No Medical Cure For Disease But Study Continues SURGERY SURE CURE Rochester, Minn., Sept. 28.—At a meeting of the general staff of the Mayo clinic, héld a few days ago, Dr. W, J. Mayo referred: to recent newspaper comment on his remarks made with regard to the .present status of the cancer problem, quot- ing him as declaring, in substance, that there was no cure for cancer. In the course of a lecture in London in July Dr. Mayo said, “There is tro medical cure for cancer,” in other words, no medicine taken internally will cure the disease. Continuing, he said that a great deal of experi- mental work was in progress in all parts of the world, all of which gradually was adding important knowledge concerning this serious disease, but, unfortunately, these in- vestigations, which have been made on animals, have not, as yet, any di- rect application to human subjects. Dr, Mayo, in his talk to hig staff, said that the cure of cancer depends on diagnosis and removal at the earliest possible time. Ip some man- ner, the laity must be taught to understand these truths, Experience in the Mayo clinic has been that 71.8 per cent of patients operated on for cancer when the disease is still. localized, that is, has not. ex- tended beyond the~ primary focus, are cured by operation, and the large majority of the remainder ‘greatly benefited, and many have been cured even when the disease had extended beyond the primary focus. : Surgical operation is the «only method of removal to be seriously considered, Dr. Mayo continued, be- cause it permits removal, with the of the~outlaw organizations is gov- erned by the kind of outlawry in |which they are engaged. The gold mining and smuggling gangs, for in- stance, are said to be large antl } powerful, with headquarters in coast towns, As a means of taming the fron- tier zones, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry is planning to fill up a considerable strip of land along the boundary lines with Indian reservations and agricultdral .colonies. The Brazil ian Indians fre hardy and warlike, jand it is believed- that they would soon rid those regions of foreign in- \vaders if they were given property to defend. Both the Indian Service and Inte- tior Settlement- Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture are engaged in the enactment of these pacifica- tion plans, ‘ COMING TO _ BISMARCK Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST In Internal Medicine for the Past Twelve Years DOES NOT OPERATE ‘Will be at McKENZIE HOTEL Wednesday. and Thutsda: Ys OCTOBER 10 AND 11 Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. TWO DAYS ONLY No Charge for Consultation * Dr. Mellenthin fs a regular grad- uate in medicine and surgery and is licensed by the state of North Da. kota. He visits professionally the more important towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consultation, except the expenee of treatment when desired. According to his: meth6d of treat- ment he does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, wleggs of stomach, tonsils.or ade- olds, He has to his credit many won- erful results in diseases of the somach, liver, bowels, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheu- tism, scia : tal eet ee en aA Bae ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE jad played their 36 hole professional took the lead at the sixth,, He won but, match at ‘the IN STATEMENT j EVEN AT NOON jrisiom, and other agents have 0 field of usefulnesg’in connection s Sept. 20—I with surgery, but @ patient should Sarazen | | ot be subjected to X-ray, radium or ledge, these able to differentiate and apply the growth, of surrounding tissues and | glands that may have become’ in- volved in the disease. The X-ray, other similar treatment without care- ful surgical consultation since, if such agents are used while the dis- ‘ease {s still local, and fail to cure, thé resultant tissue changes dependable surgical may perhaps prevent it, Radiother- apy and other treatment in the hands of untrained persons, or those whose knowledge is limited to one type of treatment, do an enormous amount of harm. Lacking knew- practitioners are delay operation and not ing, rocmitr car. befitting a closed car. The scat. holstery carri d CARS: A higher radiator with a_trim apron at its Ali body fitings—window regulators, door grips, door latch levers, door lock, dome light—are finished in’ nickel. a fine dark line on a soft brown background t does not éasily show dust or dirt. fl to harmonize for the three rear windows enhance the style of the car and add to the comfort of its passengers. Sec the new Sedan and other new Ford body styles at our showroom | These cars can be obtained through the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan. COPELIN MOTOR COMPANY Bismarck, FORA TRUCKS method which experience would show to be the best method suited to the individual patient. Dr. Mayo now permits these state- fhents to be made public ig the hope of correcting an unfortunate im- pression which has been sprénd by many newspapers in this country. Since his return from Great Britain he has had an enormons namber: of letters from persons suffering from cancer, the letters containing clip- pings from newspapers in all parts of the United States puyporting to quote him as saying, “There is no cure for cancer,” without reference to his basic statement that surgical removal does cute the disease. 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