Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1917 — CULM BANKS USED FOR FUEL [ARTICLE]

CULM BANKS USED FOR FUEL

Product of Hard Coal Mine Left Over moved Now Utilized. Millions of tons of anthracite. which have for 20 years been lying in neglected heaps in Pennsylvania, are to be made available for use presently. Philadelphia papers note that great culm banks in that state are to be immediately prepared for market by a certain Pennsylvania railroad. Culm is the product of the hard coal mine left over after the chestnut and larger sizes have .been screened and removed. In the three great anthracite fields of .Pennsylvania there are many culm banks 200 feet high and a mile or more in length. From these banks millions of tons of coal in sizes known as “pea" and steam coal can be profitably taken. Only within a few years has It been possible to sell these sizes, and the present fuel famine has added to the demand: .Perhaps some good may fotne out of even a coal famine.—Detroit Free Press. —... .. ' --- '—-----