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Show OIL BURNING. LOCOMOTIVES. The advantages of oil fuel have more than mad up th expense of equipping th enginee with oil Pursers and tanks, th coat of which average about (150 per locomotive. The general manager of the Southern Pacific railway has announced an-nounced that all of the locomotives of that road are to be convened into oil burners, consuming California petroleum. petro-leum. This decision was reached after a trial made on the western division with thirty nine engines. They consumed con-sumed 12.000 barrels of oil, at a cost of $3600, which, it is estimated, was en us I to 4000 tons of coal, at a coat of $20,000. at the prices paid for this fuel on the Pacific rosst. This com. pany haa so less than 1400 locomo-tsvee, locomo-tsvee, so that ita requirements alone would take a very large quantity from the southwestern field; but th Atchison. Atchi-son. Tones A fcanta Fe Company baa about ."o locomotives iisinu oil, aad will utilise it on additional engines during the next year, as will slso the Misennri. Ksasan t Tcxss. the Missouri Pacific and other compauics. Henry Hale, in t 'staler 'a M-Azine for May. |