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 HUNTlNGDOiN PEAT COMPANY 
 
 (LIMITED.) 
 
 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. 
 
 (To he incorporated under the Canada Statute,) 
 
 THE OXLY TRUE METHOD OF CURIXG AND DRYING PEAT 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 
 
 1871. 
 

THE HUNTINGDON PEAT COMPANY. 
 
 (L.I]!IITED.) 
 
 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. 
 
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 (^To he incorporated under the Canada Statute.) 
 
 Peat, as an article of fuel in this country, comparati- 
 vely speaking, very little is really known, though large 
 beds are continually being discovered and evidently 
 must sooner or later take the place of wood and coal, 
 the former of which is fast becoming scarce — Peat 
 properly manufactured is preferred to any other fuel 
 for steam purposes, and highly prized by the forges 
 generally. 
 
 The Huntingdon Peat Company claim superior 
 
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 advantages in tho manufacturing of the article bj 
 adopting the invention of Mr. Robert Arthur Griffin, 
 which has been highly recommended by competent 
 engineers, and as to his method of curing and drying 
 the same after receiving it from the machinery in its 
 pulp state an inspection of the various tests is sufficient 
 to warrant the Company in stating that they stand 
 second to none in tho Dominion of Canada and the 
 United States. 
 
 The following are some of the results to be obtained 
 in making peat upon the improved method, by the 
 " Griffin Patent." 
 
 1st. The present mode of drying peat by partial 
 evaporation injures the quality of the peat and 
 takes away more than i of its specific gravity, 
 whereas by drainage the whole of the weight is 
 obtained and the substance becomes dense and 
 solid. 
 
 2nd. The peat can be prepared of the same size as the 
 cord wood now used in the Locomotive Engines, 
 and has that weight in itself that secures its con- 
 sumption in the furnace, instead of being carried 
 off half consumed to the chimney. 
 
 8rd. The expense of curing the peat can be consider- 
 ably lessened by the proposed plan. 
 
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 4th. The peat when cured on the improved plan is free 
 entirely from dust, and so hard that it can be 
 readily sawn like wood, and can be handled with 
 as little care as coal. 
 
 r>th. The fuel obtained by this process is worth in the 
 market twenty-five per cent, more to the con- 
 sumer than the present value, and will be to the 
 manufacturers the same saving both as to nuality 
 and weight. 
 The results of numerous experiments, practical as 
 well as scientific, go to show that peat in its rudely 
 prepared state, goes far towards answering these 
 requirements, and vrhen solidified, it is for all pur- 
 poses superior. 
 
 The number and variety of machines and devices 
 which have been invented, patented, or attempted to 
 be used for these purposes are astonishing ; and 
 although all have agreed that such results were prac- 
 ticable, few have actually arrived at anything like a 
 satisfactory method of preparing it ; and none, until 
 recently, so far as we are aware, have arrived at that 
 complete success which is essential to the profitable and 
 universal introduction of an article of this character. 
 
 A process has, however, recently been discovered 
 by which peat may be converted into a solid dry fuel 
 
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 in good shape ami at modcrato cost, and has been 
 demonstrated to be beyond a (|ue8tion a success. 
 
 By this process the Company will be enabled to 
 turn out at least one hundred tons of dry peat per 
 day, and ready for shipment in three weeks. 
 
 The enormous expense of all machinery hitherto 
 used in utilizing peat has been the chief or sole cause 
 of the article not being produced at sufficient low cost 
 to compete favorably with w^ood and coal. 
 
 This Company is formed for the purpose of manufac- 
 turing peat in the township of Godmanchester in the 
 county of Huntingdon, distance from Montreal 47 miles, 
 being four miles from Port Lewis, on the St. Law- 
 aence, affording every facility for shipping purposes. 
 
 The peat bed is of a superior quality, being equal to 
 any as yet discovered, and comprises 500 acres or there- 
 about, averaging from 10 to 18 feet in depth of pure 
 vegetable matter, capable of yielding 3000 tons of 
 dry peat to the acre, and can be manufactured at a 
 cost of one dollar per ton, allowing ample for contin- 
 
 gencies. 
 
 The inventor of the machinery for both purposes is 
 secured by letters patent for the United States and the 
 Dominion of Canada. 
 
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 purpose disposing ot* sufficient number of shares in 
 order to have the works in full operation early in the 
 coming spring. 
 
 The inventor and oi'iginator of this Company gi es 
 the use within the township of Godmanchester of his 
 patent right to the Iliuitingdon Peat Company for the 
 Royalty of thirty cents per ton, of 2000 pounds each 
 for the first year, being lower than any other shall be 
 allowed to use the same — and for the following years 
 the Royalty to be 50 cents per ton, and the said 
 inventor to have two hundred and fifty paid up shares 
 in the said Huntingdon Peat Company.