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Show GOVERNMENT SELLS COAL Two Big Fuel Stations in Panama Zone Have Thriving Business With , Passing Steamers. r At the rate of 12,000 tons a trip two t big colliers are now carrying coal to l the government coal plant at Cristo-s Cristo-s bal, Canal Zone. The colliers are the t Achilles and the Ulysses. They are , 500 feet long and 80 feet beam, the 1 largest coal carriers so far constructed i here. ( The colliers start from Norfolk with 3 their cargoes. They are fast twin j screw vessels and make the passage . to Cristobal in about five days. Each t is expected to make twenty trips a t year and accordingly they will carry 1 240,000 tons each to the government 3 coaling stations. i The Achilles and Ulysses were built 3 by the Maryland Steel company at , Sparrows Point, Md., at a cost of j about $1,000,000 each. They are com-3 com-3 manded by former captains of Panama 1 liners. ; There are two government coal t plants at Panama, one at Cristobal j and the other at Balboa. The larger, D at Cristobal, is capable of holding 750,000 tons, not including a reserve store of 150,000 tons for the use of the navy. Government agents say that - they will always be able to sell fuel to merchant ships at a cheaper rate than private concerns. |