Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — WASH COAL TO ADD HEAT [ARTICLE]

WASH COAL TO ADD HEAT

Kansas University Proves Laundering Process Is Profitable—Leaves No Clinkers. Lawrence, Kan. —Wash your coal if you want to get more heat from it That is the advice instructors and students of Kansas university give for keeping down the family fuel bill. The advisers have just finished a job of washing a ton of coal. One hundred and sixty pounds of refuse was taken from the lot by the washing precess and the remainder produced almost twice as much heat as a ton of unwashed coal. Besides, the washed fuel left no clinkers, which form on grates, shutting off the draft and causing much of the efficiency of fuel to be lost