Double Service

Henry Ford purchased 120,000 acres of undeveloped coal lands in Kentucky, containing a potential supply of 500,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. He plans to supply fuel from this huge virgin tract for all his own factories, the factories making Ford accessories and those other manufacturing plants that care to participate in his coal conservation scheme.

This conservation scheme embodies a plan to use the coal twice. Mr. Ford has announced that he will ask all industrial users of his coal to install furnaces that will remove only the gas, leaving a fuel unimpaired for domestic purposes. The coal, after this process, would be sold to heat the homes of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country. According to a technical explanation of this gas removing process, the fuel would then be more valuable than ordinary coal for heating.

While he is working at his mining plans, Mr. Ford will also devote his energies to reforestization. There are half a billion feet of timber on his coal lands, but not a foot is to be cut at this time. It is Mr. Ford's idea to use the surface of the ground for scientific research work and experiments in timber conservation, while the miners are digging beneath the soil.