The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-13
Five Great Tanks
To Be Erected
There.
METHODS FOR
HANDLING Oil
The Fuel Will Be Distributed by
Tank Car Lines Direct to
Plantation Furnaces.

A
VE the construction of the great
~ n tanks which are to comprise the.
storage plant of the Union Oil Com
pany of San Francisco, which concern
has the contracts for the supplying OF
oil to those Hawaiian plantations which
will very soon change over to the use
of that fuel.
The storage tanks will be each of
1880 barrels capacity, Will be hve IN
number, and will be parked on the Twill
eli lands of the Oahu Railway and Land
Company, close TO the wharves. The
tanks will be placed on the newly
made ground waikiki of the Oahu pris-
on, and will be so close to the wharf
which will furnish berth room for the
oil-carriers that there will be no ma
chinery needed except that which is on
the ships.
The tanks will be placed at such ele-
walton that there will be only one
pumping operation necessary. that of
filing the tanks from the ships The
vessels will carry pumps which will be
able to unload their entire cargo with
in a day and half at the most prob
ably in thirty hours of work. This will
give hasty despatch for the ships and
there will be possible a laying down of
supplies at the rate of close to $4,000
barrels a month, using only the sailing
ship and the tank tug which are now
in the course of building at San Fran
cisco. In addition to these, however,
it is probable that there will be at least
a few trips made here by the vessels
at present in commission, in the serv-
ice of the Union Oil Company. 1t is the
intention of that company to hold in
k.a. aIe, % oil
all the time, so that in the event of
any trouble whatever there will be on
hand sufficient supply to prevent any
danger of a shortage after the fur
naces have been converted to that fuel.
The transportation of the oil from the
storage tanks to the plantation tank
age, which will be close to the pumps
where it is to be used and the mills
will be carried on in tank cars. These
cars will be of the type familiar in the
East, where they furnish means or
transportation for vast quantities or
oil. both Illuminating and fuet They
will consist merely of an iron cylinder
placed on the regular trucks Of the rail-
road cars of the present equipment.
The cylinders for these cars. Of which
there will be not less than dozen from
the very first, are now being built a [
San Francisco, and will be sent down
here as soon as they are completed.
The cars will carry close TO 130 barrels
each.
BY placing the storage tanks at a
sufficient elevation above the tracks at
this end of the line there will be a
saving of handling by power, of the
OIL until it is placed under the fur
mace where it is to be consumed. The
filling of the cars will be accomplish
ed by gravity, and the sidings which
will permit the running of the cars di-
rect to the tanks at the pumps and
mills, will be elevated so that the oil
will fow by gravity.
1t is the intention of the two Oahu
which have contracted to
use the oil to have furnaces for it's
placed in The various en-
gines which are in service on their
internal railway lines. The plan is to
have this form of fuel as an added in
against fires. which have caus-
ed such great devastation in the cane
fields everywhere. The Oahu Railway
also is planning to have the furnaces Of
the engines OF the line changed also.
not only that there may be eliminated
any possible danger from fire among
the cane fields, but also that the dust
and dirt of travel may be lessened. For
the latter purpose it is also proposed
that the roadbed shall be sprinkled with
oil, and thus the dust laid and the
weeds killed at the same time:
Already there has been inquiry as 10
the use of the oil in some OF the local
where considerable amount
Of coal is employed, but 1t is not PROB
able that anything viii be done IN that
branch Of the service for some time
Of until the arrangements have been
completed, and the service Of the oil
has been commenced to the planta-
tions
Before the end Of the month there
viii be work begun upon the storage
,lant and the plantation systems, and
he result viii be that everything will
De in readiness here by the time the
frst cargoes of oil arrive. The govern
nent has approved the selection Of the
ute for the storage tanks.