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Show crewa on this division of the system. sys-tem. For a year past from threa to five train loads of company coal from the mines in Utah have passed through Winnemacca, daily. This traffic will of course be done way with when' the engines en-gines are equipped with oil burners, burn-ers, and a consequent cutting down of the number of train crews employed. The cbauge will also I throw hundreds of Utah coal min-lers min-lers out of employment, as a large n.rl n( lha hnn'noua nf thn TTfah mines is that of supplying the Southern Pacific company with ccal. The heavy losses sustained by th company this summer through the burning of tha coal stored at various points 'along the liue is r- v, uuuuuuieujy uud ipobuu iwi decision to substitute oil for coal and fuel. . It will require some time to make the required changes in the companye engines, but probably I all will be fitted with oil burners before the end of the year. j Winnemacca Silvtr State. I1Y USE (Sj S. P. to Dispense witiiCoai. " ' The sequel of the inspection of the Soethern Pacific inat made by iGecTAl Manager Krutschnitt and other hieh officials is a decision to immediately equip ait locomotives on the road between San Francisco Francis-co and Ogden with oil burners. We nave t irom goou that H. J. Small, eeneral masttr eechanio of the system, has been instructed to begin at once the work of fitting all ths Central Pa-cifio Pa-cifio engines so that crude petroleum petro-leum may be used as fuel inatead ot eoal. About two years ago oil burners were placed in the engines of the company running on its lines in southern California. The eiper.-ment eiper.-ment proved successful, oil proving prov-ing mueb cheeper than coal and superior in other respects as fuel. Tha change from coal to oil is likely to have the effect of making a large decrease in the number of |