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Show Hj FUEL OIL COMING TO OGDEN. H Within a few days the big tanks, near the Southern Pacific H shops in this city, will be completed and filled with crude oil from H the oil fields of California and soon thereafter engines, on the Snlti H Lake division of the Southern Pacific extending from Ogden to H Sparks, will begin the use of oil instead of coal as fuel. U Gradually California oil is decreasing the western coal market. H Prior to the discovery of oil in large quantities, California had to H depend on Utah and Wyoming for fuel, and the outlook then was H1 at California could not escape the burdeD of high-priced fuel, H' while T;tah JEelt secure in the possession of its coal trade. Today Hl California fuel oil is invading the coal country and robbing the j miners of much of the market within sight of the coal measures. H TIle vailrnad officials in Ogden claim that two ban-els of oil H, 7iU do the-work of one ton o first class coal and that the oil HJI produced from the company's own wells is, compared with coal, a H cheap fuel, if in addition to its steaming qualities, the advantages of 1 automatic feeding of the engine fires and the doing away of cin- 1 ders, are considered. 1 Even the big copper smelter at IcGill, near Ely, Nevada, is j operated with California oil as a fuel and there is talk of some of H the Utah smelters using oil. H There are indications of fuel oil which is oil with an asphalt H base on the north shore of Great Salt Lake. An Ogden company H is today engaged in sending down a well to tap a liquid asphalt H body the seepage from which has "formed large deposits on the H Slirface of the lake- There is a possibility of opening up an oil basin at that point and, if a large pool were encountered, there would be cause for rejoicing. . |