The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 8

Lanasxpids Tn case of ome y Hoffmomr line, the mine power hou Brow, Nut spicuous! pis a colony lace dwellin; a uster Hedsapp strict, out of the ‘ThorStagll rises 100 fect of 16tt ed iron tipple Taucous rumblings, crunching. and While making borings in Rej_tobeslatterings in a muffled symphony ch of water, the coal deposits | SuiPartin.ty hoise, there is the whistling his: | ountered, The deposit was | . PAGE EIGHT pe ‘Washburn Lignite THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE si Sn MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 1928 ¥ | v jness of the vein determine whether | OTTER TAIL P | Pillars shail be left in place or not.”| ;———— | Mules and Railroad Used | | “fter the coal has been shot dow n, ~28 of them being kept in the ; mine from October to Ma y——drag | rut the cars to the main entry and; there a train of maybe half a dozen ! 0 as hit 40 of the trundlers is} | and run by electric “donkey” miles of main entry to the { he hoisted tu the top of the} » through the process Wf, screening—possibly and dumping into the ich carry the fuel to the On one track are loaded ive chunks of coal, on the capa. rine Modern Workings Operated in : Turn by Current From Electric Company | qther the fine partly cru ade 300,000 TONS IS OUTPUT ‘nn the eee Oe the rae ieee Nirls one mass into on nd of the nd tosses Io 25 Miles of Underground |: Tunnels 300 Men Toil; Cor- |. ip: with hie poration Owns Railway le : prthern Pac , the workings and with the : the town of Wilton. As the trains 4, unote who sce vast possibilities laf loaded cars are formed, the cee in the lignite deposits of the state ive takes them down or | for making North D: @ great industrial ci well as an cmpire of iccording to the road to hipment, and delivery s de to the main lines, Connected with the company’s kota in time ponweal gric ‘al production are. ing the/rajlroad is a scale house with an ‘ ane lapt their vision automatic weigher which takes the oH) Ne 0 < of the Washburn ej of the loaded cars as they , r the weighting platform dof four miles an hour, A pus tape registers the load Lirnite com Y The Wash! the fuel tha upplies at operates the variou contin il Power come! and ings of 1075 box carloads erage of 30 tons to the car. in in Railroad Plans fueling the several power p the Otter Tail compu that W, burn lignite is hein pplied on ans ale to indu Al purpo ; road about the mine is an 2 Washburn company's epera, {Uailiary feature, but there is. an tions run to 250,000 to 300,000 tons Mteresting relation between rail of lignite fuel a year nd the Washburn develop- amount, 1002 cars were de! Plans for railway on the east- the Washburn power hon-« sr, (0rn_ slope of the Missouri led to the 300 to the Jamestown plar nine tite itd development of | the the Northern State powe moany | Mtne. The late Senator W. D. Wash. at. Minot 300 to the Devil. Lake Dut, of Minnesota, conceived the plant. idea of a line which the meandering he, Washburn operatio fow |ind fickle course of the Missouri yj miles ea Wilton on zen. [Tiver should not menace by any of | 2ere tract. is in respect a! pride ing of the stre He meant for {modern mince. i hiefly _ [to build out of Bis by way of The | Williston over to Great Falls, Mont- in 1898. The line was con- rom Bismarck 60 miles to The Soo line sub- cauentiy acquired this trackage and uilt the present line out to Sanish ne to Drake, With the building of the road, nator Washburn began develop- ment of the country. He establish. is equipped | centers along the line which were are to become points of population, Jagriculturo and shipping. These he ies Fike in Sictace named for friends, the town of Un- On the surf: the magnitude of |Cerwood deriving its designation Nat ation ‘on-|from F.C. Underwood, the eastern ailroad president, and Baldwin was med in hono: of a brother-in- nator, sht Water, Found Coal present mine site the sen- 1 to establish a livestock tPressed in its cle ation. high line of the Otter Tail Power |* company brings current to the mine| and. except for supplying <team| r boiler | for the hoist, the entire operation of the min ducted through the Otter rent. It requires 700 horsc $ . to make its own current tunits bui el and corrugat m this arise of steam and the hu Winding on big hoisting This is not all of the « of wire cable | so ¢ and of such a good! | the trestess country | Coal passing 0 ¢ to offer in way of doy ablish | plants of at Otter 1 a the weighn er copies the i een i Hy ale o figure: ‘om this into a book record. ‘01 jomestic Cs rhe oO fi IS 0 Berea ee eee, rhe N records of the plant |General view of th> ‘r stecl screen in ti f arry it in three sizes to boxcers to be loaded, on the company’ pple of Washburn Ligite Company at Wilton mine. As it passes through ’s five miles of track of the proposed | ocation has been | loned, and to uderground moving | shaft, the present and a new mine tive putters back and fe ‘companiment of wheezing wing box cars to z neple. For cotket in box linary open « { operation is entered todviee loa at th ty which dips down to TO Waad cf hand hout 60 fect, th hen the of Cols colony into the vast deposit zregate of which is Part of the way is y electric lights, The tip re worked by the mere flicker the little neotyline torches. Electric Ventilation ‘tensive system of workings 1 with two essential ne is the pumping the ventilating. age water is accumulated in long the mine course and is from these into a large ze sump nearer the shaft by pumps. Close by te arge chamber has been ex- nthe coal and eq:.ipped powerful steam pump, This tho mine waters to the sure | thus kesps the mine drain- up fed and dry ped! Tho ventil cet a minut: of And livery barn, fer the | shifting freig Tn Ytor \ ci le . Re He u 2 OE Prmtert itui.s mite and move it on 25 miles of ¥ W-gauge tracks to the haf tere it is lifted to the ie gh the tipple, there du weighed and pa-sed ov seren and finall. ir "52,000 cubie is driven down from two fan houzes. It is 1 in a chamber of its own and Fd then a ed to pas h other si i mbe passageways of ara fo Electsle: Device ming? ich break its aiid MT ek be 7 ed Ts jcourss preventing the setting up of D feat Lhe waite MAY an fiterforing draft in the workings. from the main entries. On sss) ventilation th “coapnal ie ig ola of the mine is kept at + ea The eager the year round, while pike all. The suiWine is done|th air is kept pure. No. troubls a iike ess cagén with sharp|with gas, as in castern operations, is a crooWd finger attach-|encountered. with their waiting c It will take years to nds, | present arca of operation. When that ther part of the mechanism | stage is reached, the company is pre- ing about 11 feet in ng and with « long higher up. in 3 planted and th apable of When the former sit» of opera-|burn. Lakewoo tions wax chandoned and the new brought together.;and those which remain will he! is left in a massive brought back next spring. to add to ation for the incomplete trans-|0n tho engin nd they are a3/|formation, compared with the Ap- History of Company to reduce the) plachian soft coal. ~The’ present Washburn fo make for per. Management of Company represents ‘an ‘investment of about is} The fuel thus formed has 4 sur-|§1,000,000, It is incorporated under ness of |prisingly high thermal value. A ton|the: laws of Delaware and was or- ‘@ roof of I nearly equal two-thirds of a ton | ganized-out ‘of th> Otter T: over the opera- shburn~ Lignite 928,. when . the of Dakota lignite ‘ms; timbering , s are driven |of castern coal, ‘The following an-|er. compat s tal “the. local |alysis of as it from |tien- fram the. We nod the ck tis mine ‘in a most conditin, will] Coat comnpany in "J Miners preparing to take out of galleries of Washburn mine at Wilt Motive power is furnished’ by 28 mules to move these cars singly to ip to 40 cars, to the ‘sl on train of pit cars loaded with lignite. main mine’ track, when electric “donkies” draw the trains, pli is : for ‘hoisting to the give a fairly good idea of its com- position and fuel valuc: Moisture, ize into the coal same Coal Ahead fer 40 Years about 36 per cent; volatile matter, aust the|27 to 29 por cent; fixed carbon, 28 to 30 per cent; ash, 5 to 7 per cent; sulphur, 7 per cent; heating value, hole of it moving for-|»ared to open another large deposit |6.600 to 700 British thermal units, : the coal till an inter-!in the southeastern section of its|The lo wash content is a strikin; fect wide has been|propert st holes have been|feature. Towa coal, “he wall, several inches |driven and these show coal lying at|Tuns as high as 24 per cent. é feet back. The miner ying depths of 12 to 130 fect, the} The Washburn I. term “coal” was dropped out of the | strated’ a success if the briqueti experiment at Lehigh proves what The mine has had some ups and downs in the course of its existence. Some years back it was taken over by the state as a public utility for A series of law. uits through the lower and appel- late courts restored it to the com- pany. Shortly after, the tipple took iire and was burned. any: erected the steel and corrugated iron at a cost of $80,000. of this one gets a far view of. the country, out past Still and Regan, eastward to a fade. jout horizon, while from: ‘the . north \the tips of several Mercer structures eep over tho hill lue background of ths ‘northern its projectors expect assert that the process will not only raise the efficiency of the lignite product to a par with the Eastern| ‘ coals, but reduce the cost of placing it upon the market and the bigger jitem of transportation to the field jrequired, by the profits to’ come in |the by-products which will pay plant \operating costs. works out as planned in the Lehigh any’s promotion, the now cheap ite of the western parts of the ht to take the place of 1 in many industries long jbefore those Eastern deposits are state operation, ignite company, constituted, is under There is a deposit it is}the pr ey of Vernon Wrighi, lasting 40!Fergus Falls, Minn.; C. S. Kennedy, to bo mind. | Fergus Falls, and Stan: ‘ard Thompson, Wilton, ne sawing on the|tapped, the company had g village |i8 secretary; W. L. ef miners’ cottages whieh no longer s stant secretary. on the other side} were E tly loca Most of'|. The management on the ground made similarly ;these w d to the new sitejis in the hands of Bismarck. general Dan Quigley. Wilton, superintencent. _ the roof, arich is a|the 28 now on the eds of the min-| The Superintendent q ignite, until later |ing plan iTowa miner and he has be Direct fn* of the deposit} The mine lecation extends along! the: Washburn company since 1907. wked out, the “re:ja ridge running cscutheast from|Manager Enright has. been witb the} ‘The Wasnd roof and pillars| Wilton, The theory of the lignite|company 18 years. / 4 ty, ext t©.the surface | formation is that i nthe glacial ality on the ground is I. G. capacity, trees were floated up aga chief engineer . of the They-iption of the/hiliside by the icy drift and lodged|railroad, who has been on the jeb tethod generally there, subsequently being buried by|ever since the road was started. The *y, rectangular |alluvial earth, after which the tim-|company, by the way. haz its own m_ The entries |ber gradually carbonized. The fact|train ‘crew, but sometimes it oper- to seven feet |that this occurred long after the|Aates- large train shipments over the y tip-} eastern bituminous coal beds had be-}S0o. Line main tracks to some gun to form is regarded as explan-}destination,’ when a Soo pilot rides line from the John Enright, ARMY VETERAN DIES Washington, Dec. 31.—(AP)—Major eneral Lutz Wahl, edjutant gen- eral of the army, died here att Suggest Fuel Future for State The Washburn com ations at Wilton evoke ion of the. future importance of he state's lignite deposits. Sci will find more | eff using. it as fuel, and when this is the Dakot: site—more. than wing costs, of." mining thracite and bituminous coal of. the Wilton deposits have been tested. in. powdered form and the tests have’ ef. ficacy. ’ It:may “be . posail ‘the:lignite now coming out in ig chum will bo boned in this orm, ey , Another : solu RELIGIOUS GROUPS TRADE GREETINGS Synagogue Council of America Greets Protestant and Catholic Churches ‘Washington, Dec. 31.—(?)—The first ‘exchange of New Year greetings be- | | tween the Christian and Jewish faiths | was completed today when the| Synagogue council of America sent a message to all members of the Pro- testant and Catholic churches. It was in response to a similar greeting sent last September by the federal council of churches of Christ in America on the occasion of the Jewish New Year. SARAH NORTHCOTT GIVEN LIFE TERM Riverside, Calif, Dec. 31—(AP)— Mrs. Sarah Louisa Northcott, pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Col- lins in supezior court here this morn- ing and was sentencened to life im- prisonment. Collins was one of four youths al- leged to have been tortured and killed on a chicken farm near here, operated by Mrs. Northcott and her son, Gor- don Stewart Northcott, who also faces murder charges. The son is alleged to have kidnaped the boys and brought them to the ranch where he mistreated them before putting them to death. Mrs. Northcott accepted full re- sponsibility for the murder of the Collins lad. 28 St. Paul Crash Deaths Number 48 St. Paul, Dec. 31.—(#)—Deaths from traffic accidents in St. Paul were brought to 48 for the year when Mar- tin Hansen died at Ancker hospital today from a fractured skull. Hansen was knocked down by an automobile said to have been driven by William Danielson as he was boarding a street car this morning. Former Jamestown Woman Dies Today Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 31.—()— Mrs. Harriet Rulon, 97, Philadelphia, formerly of Jamestown, died this morning from old age according to word received here. Mrs. Rulon lived in Jamestown from 1888 until 1904. She was the grand- mother of A. J. Rulon, prominent in legion and banking circles in North Dakota and George Rulon, head of the Jamestown post of the American Legion. Flyers Plan to Beat Army at Own Game Marshall, Mo., Dec. 31.—(?)—Rush- first to set up a new world’s refueling endurance t, B. M. Tuxhorn was durance flight with the start of the New Year at midnight tonight orj shortly afterward. Accompanying Tuxhorn as co-pilot on the record attempt will be Leonard Rhiner, pilot of the Nicholas-Beazley panion Open-cockpit 60-horsepower eo lane, fence the elements and trusting to heavy clothing and face jSeveral weeks’ Ulness with pneumonia. | masks to keep them warm. SHEEP RAISERS ELECT : The little plane will be refueled $ if Contributors to Scott Aid Fund Grand Pacific Hotel . Bismarck Tribune J. H. Gibbons Kenneth W. Simons . William 8. Moeller . Victor Matson os Melville Electric Shop, $5. | Work Together, New Year’s Slogan of Gov. Maddock | st The year 1929 opens to the peo- ple of North Dakota with great Promise of activity and develop- We enter the New Year as we did the past year. A vigor- ous determined people of a great commonwealth with an abiding faith in God for our future and a determination to master our own destiny and overcome the ob- stacles fate may throw in our -enop te 838 1928 passes as a bountious year with a great volume of new wealth produced in our state. We have demonstrated again that in- telligent effort applied to our fertile soil and with our wonder- ful climate that we can produce for a population many times our Present number. Market conditions have com- omany Developing Industrial Use of Fuel 44 ising x tracks of company’s private railroad plant of Washburn Lignis of Wilton. Stecl tipple and power house, office and other buildings comprisinz surface plant in foreground and box cars on i tinea ae rear. The company ships its fuel in this type of car. FARGO FAKE BILLS NUMBER 13 TODAY. Minneapolis, Dec. 31—(AP)—About 15 spurious $20 bills have been cashed in Fargo, N. D., according to federal operatives here who have been investigating the case. Two more of the bills were discovered today, bring- |g, the total number found to 13. Garl H. Young, federal operative, whbd recently returned from Fargo, uncovered 11 of the bills which are ;erudely copper etched and printed on ‘ordinary paper with red ink lines tak- ing the place of the silk threads tised |in government paper. One of the most glaring errors in the bill, operatives said, is the por- trait, which is blurred. ‘UTAH TREASURER 10 | SERVE FIVE YEARS Salt Lake City, Dec. 31.—(?)—David |J. Pugh, chief deputy state treasurer, was sentenced to serve five years in the state penitentiary on each of four counts of embezzlement of state funds when he pleaded guilty in superior court here today. University Opens pelled our people to produce this new wealth at a net loss to them- selves. North Dakota stands to- day as a giant producing a great volume for others without a just return to the producer. Man was made to eat in the sweat of his brow but God did not intend him to work without compensation. Let us resolve now, as a united People with one voice, to work to- gether for the good of our state and all its people to the end, that we may all enjoy the full fruit of KINTYRE BANK HAS CLOSED ITS DOORS Closing of the Security State bank of Kintyre was announced today by the state banking department. institution was captialized at $20,000 and had $110,000 in deposits. SPENCER BOSE NAMED BAND HEAD Spencer Boise has heen appointed director of the Bismarck juvenile He will serve until June 1 thout compensation. Plans, to be financed by the community chest, contemplate ® concert band other band for beginners. Watch Night Opens at 8 at Tabernacle The annual watch night service of Gospel tabernacle will open at 8 o'clock this evening and continue till the new year comes in. The subject! situate in the of the service Fae “A er nate: Wednesday ni there a Sleue ota eae gi at 7: ie regu! lay night service will also open at 7:45. ‘The services will be marked by music. M. C. Miller is the pastor. 16 GET DEGREES Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 31.—(AP) Sixteen students at the University of North Dakota will complete work | 7," obtain degrees at the semester Jan. 23. They | Bi will not be formally presented with diplomas, boever » until the regular commencement ‘Wilson, 4 necessary to end of present » according to NORTH DAKOTAN DIES Fargo, Dec. 31—(AP)—Ole Siver- it of Fargo for five years and before that living at San- Canby, died Sunday of complicatt cident te old age. New 4 , 31.—(P)—Betty Wil-, instructor, Thursday Morning |_Grand Forks, Dec. 31—(AP)— | Classes at the University of North Dakota will reopen at the scheduled |time Thursday morning, Jan. 3 at |8 o'clock. This decision was made jby the school's administrative com- mittee at c meeting this morning, | according to R. O. Wilson, secretary. There had been some doub: as to | the advisibility of opening the school until later because of the influenza situation. Grand Forks and East Grand Forks public schools will open Wednesday, Jan. 2, as planned, school authorities ; announced Saturday. NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE Notice is hereby given that pur- suant to a warrant of attachment duly issued by the District Court of the County ‘of Burleigh, Fourth Judicial District, State of North Da- kota, a levy was made upon the per- sonal property hereinafter described; and judgment was thereafter, to-wit on the 2ist day of December, D. 1928, entered in an acti Court,*in favor of J, W. Scott, Plain- tiff in said action, and against Eu- gene Walla, defendant therein, for the sum of Three Hundred seven and 02-100ths Dollars (¢: a8 appears by the judgment roll filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court, and said judgment was docket- ed in the County of Burleigh, in said State, on the 2ist day of December, D. 1928; and a writ of execution Pursuant to said judgment and. at- tachment having ‘been issued out of said Court on the 21st day of Dec- ember, “A. D, 1928, directing the sale of said personal property to ‘satisfy said judgment; Said personal property, ‘which is situate in the county of Burleigh and State of North Dakota, and is des- cribed as follows, to-wit: 1. La Crosse, 3-bottom Engine gang plow, breaker and stubble bottoms; 1 La Crosse 2 bottom engine gang plow, breaker and stubble bottoms; 1 four- section iron harrow; 1 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company gas En- gine, 17-30 Type B No. 438 Amer- ican Sheet and Plate Bins, capacity 1000 bushels each; 1 Deer- ing Binder; 1 McCormick Binder; will be sold at public auction, agreeably to the statutes in such vase made and provided, on the 12th day of January, A. D. 1929, at 2 o'clock P, M., on the folio’ described premises | ‘ounty of Burleigh in the State of North Dakota, to-wit: the Northwest Quarter (NW) of Section Sixteen (16) in Township > in Re One Hundred Forty (140) North of Range Sevety-nine (79) West of the Fifth Principal Meridian. There will be due on said judgment on the date jot sale the sum of $387.02 and in- terest thereon at neven per cent per annum from December 2ist, 1928, to- gether with accrued and’ accruing costs of execution and saie. Dated December 29th, 1928. ROLLIN WELCH, Sheriff of Burleigh County, N. Dak UGHR & TILLOTSON AttoMneys for Judgment Creditor, jsmarck, N. Dak (42-31), Dividend Notice Montana-Dakota Power Co. The Board of Directors of the Montana-Dakota Power Company has declared the regular quarter- ly dividend of Ono Dollar and eventy-Five Cents ($1.75) per share on the outstanding 7% Preferred Capital | Stock. One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.5 ber share on the out-stand 6%, Preferred Capital Stoc Seventy-Five Centa | (7. mey. She shared first prize with one Howard Williams in endurance gabfest. cee or vlore of business, December 1 1928, AYTCH P. Woonson, ° Secretary,