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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 15

RIVER WEED AS FUEL An important development, which will have the result of converting a nuisance to commercial account, is being effected in the Soudan. As is well known, navigation of the Upper Nile is seriously hindered by the dense, dank, watergrass, which in a gale or storm becomes detached, drifts, and blocks the waterway, forming what is colloquially known as the sudd. For some 300 miles the "river runs through a swamp, where this grass flourishes luxuriantly, the morass covering some thirty thousand square miles. Lord Cromer realised what a serious handicap this vegetation was to the development of the country, owing to the obstruction it presented to navigation; and when some enterprising German chemists suggested the possibility of converting this weed into fuel he co-operated in their experiments, at the same time inducing the Egyptian Government to lend substantial financial assistance. These investigations have proved completely successful. The grass is first dried like peat, and then passed through a disintegrator, which reduces it to a coarse granulated condition. Jt is then biiquetted, the time occupied in the whole, operation occupying only a few minutes. Tests with this fuel have> shown that it has a heating power twothirds that of coal. Inasmuch as black diamonds in the sudd district cost on an average 66s a ton, and wood is almost as dear, it will be seen that the cheap production of this sudd fuel is of farreaching importance to the country. In1 vesligations show that the fuel can be manufactured oa the spot for about ialf the price of coal, and consequently a factory is to be established in. the sudd country for the production of briquetted water-weed on an extensive scale. The Soudan Government is taking part in the enterprise, and there is no doubt that it will prove commercially successful, besides offering an economic solution of a complex problem which has hitherto seriously retarded the opening up of the country. — JjJxchange. WORLD'S GREATEST OIL RESERVOIR. —i Imagine & solid column of oil shooting to a height of more than 460 ft from a hole in the earth, with a mist of minute globules carried by the wind for more than ten miles, settling down upon the vegetation and farming; pools , of oil within that radius 5 then a great lake of tha fluid four miles long by three miles wide 'and formed by means of an earthen dam hastily thrown acroes a natural reservoir, and at the lowest depression of the bank of this lake a channel several feet wide leading into the Tuxpan River, through which the overflow of oil from the wonderful geyser is constantly going to waste. Add to this the outbursts of deadly gases that pour from the mouth of the well at frequent intervals, settling over the country for miles around, bringing death and desolation to all vegetable and animal life that comes within reach. _ Imagine all this, and some idea may be had of that wonderful phenomenon, the oil well opened in the Potrero del Llano I district j near Tuxpan, Mexico, on 3rd January, by an English company headed by Lord Gowdray. That this well is the largest producer in the history of the ' oil industry is admitted. It has demonstrated that underlying the gulf coastal • »egion of Mexico is the greatest reservoir I of oil known in the world. f The correct baße for the New Roslyn Tailored Costumes is the Warner's favj ourito Rust-proof Corsets. ' Town and country "drapers now showing both lines.— Advt.

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