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Show REPORT ON OILASFUEL Naval Board Compiling Results of Tests on the Subject WASHINGTON. April 24. The naval board which for many months has been conducting an exhaustive test to ascertain as-certain the fuel value of coal oil as compared with coal Is about to begin the compilation of the results obtained. .An important result obtained has been to. reduce the myriad oil burners, more than sixty-five of which were tried separately, into six classes. There Is not a great deal of difference In the value of the burners, the simplest appearing ap-pearing to be the best. |