Show OIL ON THE BREAKERS CASTINO CASTING oil on the troubled waters has been tried again with success according to the san francisco ChronI it appears that the steamer mexico was wan detained outside the columbia river bar and could not cross it the rhe detention wets was caused by the heavy breakers which render passage of vessels impossible at certain phases of the tides capt patterson states that he waited outside ton ten hours for a favorable chance to cross the bar 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 danger dangerous bar the result was that the comb of the breakers was broken and the mexico passed over in safety without shipping any sea the experiment peri ment proved such a success that it will be tried at several bar bound J harbors along the north coast by vessels that usually suffer long aud and unprofitable detention |