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Show OIL ON THE BREAKERS. "Casting oil on tbe troubled waters" has been tried again with success, according to the San Francisco Fran-cisco CrfOmc'e. It appears that the steamer Mexico was detained outside out-side the Columbia Kivcr bar, and could not cross it. The detention was caused by the heavy breakers which render passage of vessels im possible at certain phases of the tides. CapU Patterson states that he watted outside ten hours for a favorable chance to cross tbe liar, and at last decided to try oil. A large quantity of "waste" was placed in the closet pipes, and oil was allowed to drip slowly through to the water. The oil spread with astonishing rapidity over an Immense area of water surface, and it spread Inshore over the dangerous bar. The result was that the comb of tbe breakers was broken, and the Mexico passed over in safety, without shipping any sea, Tbe experiment ex-periment proved such a succesi that It will be tried at several bar-bound harbors along tbe north coast by vessels that usually suffer long aud unprofitable detention. |