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The Laramie Republican
Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming
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Bureau of Mines suggests consumer coal storage to eliminate shortages, high prices, and labor issues, based on joint investigations with Carnegie Institute of Technology. Experts Joseph D. Davis and John F. Byrne advise screening coal, avoiding mixing types, and precautions against fire and deterioration.
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Practical methods of storing have been worked out as a result of investigations which the government has conducted lately in co-operation with the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Joseph D. Davis, fuel chemist for the bureau, and John F. Byrne, of the research staff of the institute, have found that the dangers of spontaneous combustion and deterioration can to a considerable degree be avoided by proper methods in handling the product.
Coal should be screened and the fine stuff eliminated, the bureau experts say, before any storage is attempted. Likewise two or more different kinds of bituminous coal should not be mixed in storage, as this increases the danger of fire. The less volatile types of eastern mined coal can be stored with advantage and safety by consumers if they will observe the necessary precautions.
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Washington
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April 20
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General adoption by consumers of the practice of storing coal, the Bureau of Mines suggests, may result in the elimination of shortage, high prices, and labor disturbances unsatisfactory to both the public and the industry itself. Practical methods of storing have been worked out as a result of investigations which the government has conducted lately in co-operation with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Joseph D. Davis, fuel chemist for the bureau, and John F. Byrne, of the research staff of the institute, have found that the dangers of spontaneous combustion and deterioration can to a considerable degree be avoided by proper methods in handling the product. Coal should be screened and the fine stuff eliminated, the bureau experts say, before any storage is attempted. Likewise two or more different kinds of bituminous coal should not be mixed in storage, as this increases the danger of fire. The less volatile types of eastern mined coal can be stored with advantage and safety by consumers if they will observe the necessary precautions.