Show SURVEY OF GAS GASIS IS COMPLETED Little Difference Is Shown Between Winter And Summer Fuel 8 By LOUIS LUDLOW Washington Oct Summer 3 3 ga gasoline and Winter gasoline arc becoming more and more alike states the department of the interior Inter Inter- InterIor Interior as the result of a survey surrey ey recent recent- recently recently recently ly made by the bureau of ot mines of o the motor fuels sold In the arlou cities of the country This seasonal In the characteristics of summer and winter wiMer gasoline tha still present has nearly reached an apparent state of minimum fluctuation the bureau found I The Th fh survey just completed Is the Eighth motor annual gasoline surrey made by the bureau of OC mines were tested as found in the markets of the ten follo Ing named cities New York Washington Pittsburgh Chicago New Orleans SL SI St Louis Den Denser Dener er Salt Lake City San Francisco and Ok Okla la The present survey shows an in- in eruption In In the apparent tendency In-I In toward greater uniformity In the character of ot marketed In various arlous sections or of o the United States which had been indicated In the surrey ur made from front April 1917 to Januar January 1923 and which had Iad been beep arrived at by b averaging averl the end points of oC the 10 lU per cent ot of ott t the he least volatile and most vola vola- volatile vola- vola volatile volatile tile samples of gasoline The dif dif- difference difference dif difference ference In average a rage end points amounted to de degrees In April J 1917 had decreased to 64 54 degrees In January 1923 and rose rosa rosato roseto to 71 degrees In the survey surrey ey just completed Comparison o of the July 1922 and July 1923 surveys aho ahoon shows on the whole very tery ery little difference In inthe Inthe the tho boiling point range of the gas gns- gasoline gas gasoline oline sold during July of last year and that sold during July of this year Comparison of the January Januar 1923 and July 1923 surveys brings out distinctly the difference between bet summer and winter grades grad grad- grade grades e es of oC gasoline The difference Indi Indi- Indicate indicate Indicate cate a seemingly slight decrease In In the gasoline sold old dur- dur durIng dur during ing lug the present summer Of the IBS samples collected failed fatted to meet the federal specIfications specifications specifications revised Oct 21 1923 1922 The departure from federal specifications specifications IThe In the majority of samples doe does doel not however exceed a few degrees n |