Show WILL BURN OIL WLL OIL Southern Pacific Engines to bfc Pitted J With Petroleum Burners The sequel of the inspection o the Southern Pacific just mado by General Manager KrutBChnltt and other high officials is a decision to immediately equip nil locomotives on the road between be-tween San Francisco and Ogden with oil burners We have it from good authority that I J Small general master mechanic of the system has been Instructed to begin at once the work of fitting all the Central Pacific t engines so that crude petroleum maybe w may-be used a fuel Instead of coal I I About two years ago oil burners were placed In the engines of the company running on Its lines In southern California r Cali-fornia The experiment proved successful suc-cessful oil proving much cheaper than coal and superior in other respects as fuel fuelThe change from cool to oil is likely to have the effect of making a large decrease I de-crease in the number ot crews on this LI division of the system For a year past from thne to Uvc tralnloads of company coal from the minus In Utah have passed through WInnemucca dally TIll tralllc will of course be Ii dine 1 way with when the engines are equipped wIth oil burners and a cons quent cutting down of the number of train crews employed The changer r vlll also throw hundreds of Utah coal II minors out of employment as I large part of the business of the Utah mines c ia that of supplying the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company with coal The heavy losses sustained by the company this Hummer through tho 5 burning of the coal stored at various points along the line is undoubtedly one reason for the decision to substitute substi-tute oil for coal a fuel I I will require some time to make the required changes in the companytt engines en-gines but probably all will be fitted with oil burners before the end of the m year Vlnnomucca Silver State |