The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 16

* PAGE Te J Invention May Open Huge New Business Fields Here Low-Grade Coal } Large Returns From By-Products of SOL eS SS ST General view of the Beacon Coal Mines company’s property and by-products plant near Allentown—the backbone of ‘Seattle’s new industry. Mine. il leading into 1,000-foot tunnel tapping deposit of 2,500,000 tons of low grade coal in Seattle's back yard. A. L. Knouse, president of the company and one of three Seattle chemists and engineers who have perfected a new pro- cess for extracting valuable derivatives from coals otherwise not worth mining. By Hal Armstrong Discovery and perfection of a new process for extracting from waste and low grade coal its many valuable by-products was announced today by A. Le Knouse, president and treasurer of the Beacon Coal Mines Co, & Seattle concern with offices in the Pantagrs building. Finding of the new process ts due to the efforts of Knouse and his two Seattle associates, Frank C. Greene jand L. F. Laucks, a chemist. OPENS TO SEATTLE NEW OPPORTUNITIES It prominés to revolutionize one of the world’s newest industrics and, according to Knouse, opens for Se attle a new field of opportunity in manufacturing. For the derivatives of coal are the backbone of the paint and oll indus try and the manufacture of drugs. Perfumes, dyes of y color, T. N. T., food preservatives and hundreds of other manufactured articles in common use are made entirely or partly from coal. While experiments were being made by Greene and Laucks to de NEW LINES SPECIALLY PRICED FOR HALLOWE’EN nip abstain ounces ss plinaeset r $ 3° *, | velop the new process, Knouse was Black Satin—$3.95 Men’s Black | founding in Seattle the Beacon Coal Brogue Kid Mines Co. Oxfords 1 Whether the new process was a Extra Special success or not, Knouse intended de veloping the coal properties of the! f Silver company. A mile from Seattle's southern $ 65 city Umits, when the Cedar river pipeline was installed, outcroppings of low grade coal were uncovered | near Allentown, ' pe FOOLHARDY OR ( Bla, FORESIGHTED? Ki $ 95 $ 95 Knouse was foolhardy enough, or { $4.95 5. foresighted enough, to get posses. sion of the land under which the { coal body lay. Prof. Henry Landes, of the Unit. versity of Washington, and other| A + mining engineers have examined the H Women’s Wonderful Values in Fine property, and Landes, in his report, f and d House Blac estimated that there are 2,500,000 | Girls’ Army an Slippers Ki tons of recoverable coal there ready | to be taken out | hath and Navy Knouse interested enough people sac if in his company to raise $150,000. |i Calf Shoes The stockholders are, for the most! P part, Seattle salaried people, small investors. Knouse had always been @ salaried man himself, The $150,000 was spent driving a 1,000-foot tunnel and building a by-| | products plant that today, it is said, could nbt be reproduced for less than $200,000. | Knouse got that far, and no far | ther, | The new process a proved success |and the plant near Allentown ready to operate, Knouse says, the com panuy 1s strapped for working capt tal “It will take 40 yoars to exhaust $4.95 Thrifty People Greater Chain- prays Appreciate | the coal that Prof, Landes says is in re Buyin, a the property,” @ald Knouse. “Our ying Our Cash and by-products plant might be called a Power Carry Plan basic industry. Already I know of & glass manufacturer who is making inquiries about locating here on the condition that he can get gas for his furnaces, “A hundred other industries depend upon coal by-products, THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2%, THY. | These would andoubtedly come | of hard work and think Iam enuitiea| Denver. | hore with # by-product plant e& | to some of the reward and because| “When all the conl at Allentown PLUMBING tablished as a nucleus, { want the old stockholders to £¢t/ iy exhausted, the location of the by-| REPAIRS “TUght now, had we $20,000 or| the rest of it. products plant, in the very center or umber is as o ee now negotiating with | ° district, insures ae oe eee lof the coal mining |a practically inexhadstible supply of For it is the waste 1 use in the plant.” your phone. n to work| Boston ¢ have corre | has authorized the eale of 3 spondence from a San Francisco| shares of stock. It seems too firm that believes it could take our | that we should have to turn to Bos entire output |ton, The company would rather Se “Unfortunately our stockholders | attle people should get the benefit are unable to raise the money needed | “This wtock is made @ prior lien | to get under way, I went to the|on the company’s property, Chamber of merce and laid the|#hould the company go bankrupt | proposition befe jem, and was re-| holders of this stock would have first | forred to several Seattle capitalists. | opportunity of getting their money men I visited one at a| back. ‘y would not put up the| “But the company isn't going y could get the con-| bankrupt. I foresee in the near reet in the company future, in what might be called 4 to accept on thelr terme, Seattle's back yard, a new man. se 1 have put in seven years ufacturing center ithe that of sts, ‘The com’ D. B. 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