. The Street railway journal . coal house a tempo-rary track has been built along one side of theboiler room, and coal is being temporarilyunloaded through the windows, as shown inFig- IS- The plant is now using more than 100 tonsof lignite coal a day, 40 tons of which is theLeyden coal, that is brought in by electricdump-cars over the tracks of the Denver &Northwestern Railway. An average of threeanalyses of this Leyden coal, made byL. L. Summers, gives the following percent-ages: Moisture, ; volatile matter, ;fixed carbon, ; ash, The companypays $ a ton for the Northe
. The Street railway journal . coal house a tempo-rary track has been built along one side of theboiler room, and coal is being temporarilyunloaded through the windows, as shown inFig- IS- The plant is now using more than 100 tonsof lignite coal a day, 40 tons of which is theLeyden coal, that is brought in by electricdump-cars over the tracks of the Denver &Northwestern Railway. An average of threeanalyses of this Leyden coal, made byL. L. Summers, gives the following percent-ages: Moisture, ; volatile matter, ;fixed carbon, ; ash, The companypays $ a ton for the Northern Coloradolignite coal that it has been using, but ex-pects to bring the cost of the Leyden coaldown to $ or less when the workings atthe mines are fully opened and the coal- pass through an electrically-driven coal crusher and be carriedby a cross conveyor to the longitudinal coal and ash conveyorin the boiler room, for distribution to the individual boiler the track and connected by means of another cross.
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