Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — USES CINDERS MIXED WITH COAL, INSTEAD OF COAL [ARTICLE]

USES CINDERS MIXED WITH COAL, INSTEAD OF COAL

August Maack, a Muncie merchant, believes he v has discovered the secret of doubling the’life of coal and he makes public his secret without cost It consists of mixing with the coal an equal amount 'of cinders such as he finds on the immense cinder dumps of the Munice Elec*trie Light Company. The cinders may be had for the hauling, the company being glad to get rid of them. Maick’s theory is that they contain much unburned coal. The company has two great hills of cinders there now that it is offering to all who will haul them away. They have been much prized by farmers and others for the making of cinder roads, but until Maick experimented with them it was supposed their fuel value had all been extracted by the furnaces of the big power plant here which burns 400' tons of coal a day. The cinders, dampened and mixed with a small amount of coal and even with poorly combustible material like potato paring and other kinds of garbage, burn with a blue, hot blaze, Maick says. His plan is being tried in fifty or so homes today and the outcome of the experiment is being watched eagerly by some hundreds of others.