Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — To Test Ash Fuel. [ARTICLE]

To Test Ash Fuel.

The claim put forth by John Elmore, a poor cobbler of Altoona, Pa., that he had discovered a solution which, when added to a mixture of one part coal to three parts coal ashes, would make more heat than the original coal from which the ashes came, is to receive a definite commercial teat at the hand* of Jones A Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburg. If the claim of the inventor should be sustained it would mean much to the coal aud all manufacturing industries.