The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-22
OIL USED As FUEL.


Than Coal
An editorial in a recent issue Of q
Cincinnati paper urges the manufact-
urers Of Cincinnati to consider the
question Of using crude petroleum as
fuel. Investigation shows that Gin
cinnai is behind many other cities in
the use Of the liquid fuel which is
found in such abundance in Ohio and
within such easy access Of that city.
Cleveland manufactures and uses
the Lima oil extensively as fuel, and
Is even experimenting with good re-
suits in tho direction Of converting it
into gas for fuel purposes. Chicago
Is using 10, 600 barrels q day Of the
new fuol. Even the town of Hamil-
ton, O., has made more progress in
this direction than Cincinnati. A
gentleman just returned from Hamil-
ton says the number of oil cars he saw
on the sidings led him 10 mako some
Investigations. He found q largo
flour mill which is running three 100
horse power boilers with Lima oil as
fuel. These boilers required nine
tons OF coal for q twenty-four hours
run, at s. ton, making $18 day.
The same boilers are run with twen-
ty-eight barrels Of oil, costing so cents
q barrel at Hamilton, q total Of $14.
Two stokers and coal shovelers were
dispensed with, making q saving of s.
day for labor. The saving in
shovels, wheelbarrows, grate bars,
ETC., for this establishment Is estimated
by the proprietors at 90 a day, making
the total daily expense Of oil GA
against ~ for coal. Tho oil Is said
to furnish one-third more power than
the coal, with less wear and tear on the
boilers. At other factories in Hamil-
ton boilers are run with gas made
from Lima oil.
Nearly every town Of any conse-
quence in Ohio uses more or less Lima
oil as fuel. In Harrisburg, Pa, firm
that has q contract with the govern
ment for furnishing steel for steel
clad ships uses gas from Lima oil for
melting steel billets. This firm states
that they ore able to melt ton of
steel billets from gas made from three
gallons of oil, and regard it as one of
the most important discoveries of the
ago for the manufacture of steel.
There are fifty of these gas plants now
in operation, and one is being erected
at Johnstown, Pa. Business men who
are watching the progress of liquid
fuel believe that within a year 100, 600
barrels day will be used for this pur-
pose.
The Lima Oil company is composed
OF Ohio oil producers, and is entirely
outside OF the Standard oil company,
has 200 cars Of its own, and every one
of the number is kept busy day and
night. This company has made con-
tracts to furnish oil in Hamilton, O.,
for two years at 80 cents a barrel. The
amount of this oil that is being pro.
duced in Ohio is much greater than
the public generally supposes.
The total output OF the wells is moi
under 1 1,OOO, 900 month. When the
actual gauges show less production
it is when the large wells ore shut in
and are not allowed to yield up thei,
full capacity. This is the case at this
time, owing to the inability Of the pipe
lines to handle all the oil that could
be produced. The Standard Oil com
pany pays the producers Is cents g
barrel for the oil at the wells, and the
fact that they have now 5000, 900 bar
rels in tanks in the region is evidences
that they believe in its future, The
tanks in which the oil is stored ars
taken down and removed from the
Pennsylvania fields where SO much
tankage is no longer needed. The oil
is now being used for fuel purposes II
twelve states and territories, and it il
not unlikely to ultimately take ths
place Of coal for manufacturing pur
poses, except in the vicinity Of Goa.
mines. Globe Democrat