NEW FUEL PUZZLES FINDER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 386, 1 October 1903, Page 6

NEW FUEL PUZZLES FINDER.

fiaium* a«Ms»»tlr Dlacov«r«* I/oolcs Mk* Wood -tad la Found fa j T«lm I.lk* Coal. -^ Out in Washington they hare,discovered a new fuel which is believed to be commercially valuable and which cannot as yet be classified by the scientists. This peculiar deposit has been discovered near Asotin and Lewiston. The product has a woody fiber and burns with a bright flame like dry wood. There is on occasions a sputtering as if there were oil in •the substance, but there is no book on bitumens that treats of it in any manner. Assayer Fassett says that he has never seen or heard of a similar substance. He says that it appears to him like dried fungus, but that if the reports sent him are correct his theory must be wrong. In a letter sent from Asotin the writer states that he has a four-foot ledge uncovered and has sunk on it a distance of six feet, the ledge tying between rock walls. There was a decayed worm found in a piece of tha product sent to the assay office, and that is taken to show a vegetable formation. The samples can.be split into sections with a knife without encountering any grit. If there is a ledge as described and it is within well-defined walls the substance will be of great commercial value. ■.. Keeley'a Old Motor. A great ball, probably six feet in diameter, that though of ordinary cast-iron represents many thousands I of dollars, is located outside an industrial establishment ..in .Twentieth street in"Philadelphia." It is painted a homely yellow and bears in streaky letters the advertisement of a manufacturing firm. Formerly this globular piece of iron did dutj* as a portion of the fa motisKeel€3'motor. It weighs probably a ton, and its present value is represented by the market ra/te of scrap-iron. - v. ._ i^