The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-06-23
new USE FOROIL
SPECIAL BOARD SAYS II CAN De
USED succEssFuLLV.
GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIMENTS WITH OIL
Not Time Yet to Adopt u for General
use-Roard Declares That Under
No Circumstances should Coal De
Abandoned SO That lite Use May
Not be Resumed Quickly.

WASHINGTON. Especially The
navy department Friday made public
the conclusions Of the liquid fuel board
Of the navy, consisting Of Commander
John r. Edwards. Lieutenant Com
mander William Parks. and Lieuten-
ant Commander F. X. Banley, formed
as the result Of tests covering a period
Of twenty-eight months with coal and
oil, respectively. as a navy fuel. In
the opinion of the board, an intelligent
fire room force should find no trouble
in burning oil in a uniform manner.
and for general purposes on shore
high pressure steam was found TO be
a better spraying medium than air
Regarding the question OF burners the
board says that. 'as the warship is de-
signed 20 be operated al short notice,
under the severes forced draft condi.
tons. the question will have 90 be con.
sidered whether IL is not more adyis-
able 70 tit air burners hat would be
found more efficient for the day OF
battle. rather than effect an instaila
ton OF steam burners that are most
desirable for general cruising"
The board declares that no fuel oil
installation should be permitted for
marine purposes which would not per.
init a return 10 coal within twenty-four
hours IN case Of the failure OF the oil
supply. II say that with the use OF
OIL, the forcing Of a marine boiler can
be more readily accomplished than
with the use Of coal. The board is OF
opinion. however. that no attempt
should be made to use Oh as auxiliary
CT supplementary 20 coal The evap-
orative efficiency Of crude and refined
oil - finds is practically the same. no
matter from what locality the oil may
come. For marine work. It says. no
crude oil should be used.
In conclusion. the board in its re-
port says:
In view Of the fact that As per
cent Of the worlds output of crude
petroleum Is produced Ia the United
States. and practically our entire yield
Is secured from fields which are Ia
| pipe line communication with impur-
tant maritime and strategic ports. the
board considers that a Joint commits
sion representing commercial. manu-,
featuring, maritime u naval inter.
ests. should be authorized by con,
grvss. whose province 30 would De TO
formuiat. rules and regulations that
would provide for an economical. a.
hcieut. enduring and Fafc fuel OIL 10.
stallatiun. Particularly for the de,
veiopment Of our commercial inter.
ests Ia the Gulf OF Mexico and on the
Pacific coast should The work % such
commission have an importNn, inna-
ehce In extending uur prestige and
power. whether viewed from a com.
merC,al. maritime or naval stand.
point
The board regards the engineering
or mechanical features % the LIQUID
fuel problems as having been prac-
tically and satisfactorily solved. For
manufacturing purposes. the financial
and supply features of the fuel are the
only biudrances 20 the use uf crude
petroleum as a standard fuel For
mercantile purposes the commercial
and transportation features al The
problem are existing bars which limit
the use n oil ruel for merchant ships,
For naval purposes there is the addl
tiona! serious difficulty 10 be- over
come ~ providing satisfactory and
safe structural arrangement for carry.
inR at adequate bunker supply. FoT
a time the effort should be made "a
use on fuel only for special purposes
Ia particular localities
Because II ID" International inter
est Ia these experiments. secrotAu
Moody has ordered hat 5000 copss'
81 the report be printed for distribu
tlon.