Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — WOULD TURN COAL INTO GAS [ARTICLE]

WOULD TURN COAL INTO GAS

. . . •: English Scientist Offers Unusuafptnn to Save Mining and Handling • Fuel. New York.—A proposal which, ,if adopted, would revolutionize the coal mining business -of the world 'has been offered by Bir William Ramsay. mining and handling might be avoided If the coal was turned Into gas In retorts in the bbweis of the eqrth. The gas thus generated could either he ptpeUnea, or used at which could be distributed from