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Show j WARNS AGAINST WASTING AIR y Southern Pacific Railway Company i Cite Attention of Employee I to a Real Expense. r "Don't waste the nlr." j This Injunction, Indicating the pass ing of the lust free commodity known to until, has been added to the conservation conser-vation proRrnni of the Southern i'aeirlc, Bays Financial America. The attention of thousands of workmen In the railroad rail-road shops at Los Angeles, Sacramento Sacra-mento and Oakland is being directed to the fact that compressed air, used to drive many machines anil tools, represents rep-resents n real expense. In fact, the I "high cost of air" is giving the com pany economists some concern. (5. W. Hear, general bridge inspector inspec-tor for the company, estimates that n half-Inch leak In n eonipressed-alr tank will offset the work of u 7.r-horse 7.r-horse power engine nnd the cost of a horse power varies from less than a cent to 30 cents per hour, depending upon the size of the plant, amount of attendance, etc. Usually the loss is greater than the money cost, due to decreased output on uccount of Insufficient Insuf-ficient air supply. The expression "free as nlr" lias no relevancy in the Southern 1'acinc shops. |