The Cumberland Islander
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2017-02-07
issued: 1928-08-31
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note: LON CHANEY in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" THIS WEEK END llis-llo Theatre Cumberland Islander (4 EMIL JANNINGS in "The I.ast Command" Monday and Tuesday September 'trd anil -till WHb which Is consolidated the Cumberliind News. FOrtTY-SBVENTH YEAR—No. 36; CUMBERLAND. BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY. AUGUST .11, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: TWO DOLLARS l'ER ANNUM Canadian Collieries take over Western Fuel Corp., September 1st OIL FROM COAL ScoU-h Inventor Suid to Have Solved Secret After YearB of Study Tlie Vancouver Daily papers carried u siory last week on the efforts of a Scotch Inventor for whom it Is claimed has Bolved the secret of extracting nil from coal, it is also reported that Bome European countries have approached Mr, Turner, the Inventor for Ills patents, but have been politely refused the inventor claim-1 ing he intended to keep liis secret for Britain. In the House of Commons London, it is said the government was quite non-committal on the subject, i 1 m simple language the process is described as follows: "Various schemes have been con-; sidered for the conservation or coal! for preventing the throwing away of money in the shape of smoke and soot. One of the foremost is the treai- j ment of all coal by a gasifying pro-1 ■cess at the gasworks, the extraction I or the by-products, and the burning in domestic and industrial fires of the residue—coke. But even thon | (here Is waste. Took Years to Perfect Anil now comes tills new wonder, the extraction of oil—running liquid petroleum oil-—from hard, black coal, i and the utilization of the residue as j an economical smokeless fuel which | burns away without cinders to a band- ful of white ash. Now. what seems wonderful. It is! On a plot of ground, less than half | an acre in area, situated in a wild part of the moors above Coalburn, j Lanarkshire, and known as the Co-1 mac Oil Works to those who Inquire, j stands a small-based building, high on I the landscape, with a smoke stack I and several tanks round about. Here Is the …
note: Title Note: "With which is consolidated the Cumberland News
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cumberland (B.C.)
spatial: Cumberland
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0342633
language: English
lat: 49.6186111
long: -125.0325
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cumberland, B.C. : Islander Publishing Co.
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