Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-20
FUEL SITUATION Is GETTING
 CRITICAL
People May Have to Go to Slaughter Houses and Col lect TaIlow for Candles for Their Lights.

PHOENIX, Dec. 19.-Unless a ship ment of crude oil reaches this city with thirt. s.x hours. Phoenix will rave neither electricity nor gas foT lighting and fuel purposes. nor power tor the city railway line. and these plants must necessarily shut down. The supply of Illuminating oil has been rather limited for long time. thougo Just what it's present condition is was not learned last night. Should it be come necessary. however. for all the present users of electricity to resort to kerosene lamps again. it is not like ly the supply in this city would last any longer than 1t takes the dealers TO open the spigot and let the precious fluid run into the measuring vessels It is not impossible that Phoenlx pee pie before the holidays will find theni- selves raiding the slaugnter-houses for tallow and moulding candles after the manner Of their ancestors when the tailow dip marked the anstocracy of the best families.
 ih.s IS tl.e worst phase of the sit nation and it is not stated to create unnecessary alarm but only to warn
 he people to supply themselves as
 
 preaching emergencies. There is si- ways the sustaining hope that oil vii. be secured before the time limit has expired: that the reprieye will come yelOIe the hour of execution.
 Manager Ensign Of the Pacific Gas and Electric companyssaid last night he did net want to alarm the people unnece sse rily or throw them into d h, Ht.A thn cgf, uous and he believed it to be his
 saty to let the people know just as early as possible. He said he hac been doing his utmost for weeks to prepare against such emergency and had succeeded in delaying the shori- age considerably but that he had now exhausted every resource at his com mald and like similar plants else. where he can only await the outcoInS of events. good or bad as they may be. Ie has been unable to secure oil through the regular channels since the middle of October. in accordance with contracts, and he is in no waraL condition than other patrons Of the ail companies whose hands have m turn been desperately ted and wno would gladly keep their contract wItn hir. if t1e5 could
 To deny tine conditions that have TOW over taken this city his associates or their representatives have been Gii icentlv buying oil at every possible point n .h,c zeal California field out side the supplies of the big companies and have been paying from 200 to SSe per cent more for the oil than the price for which they had already con tracted their supply. IL was not question of price. but question of cil at any price. And now the time has arrived when through similar con iitions elsewhere the car shortage l.. i eneraf and it is impossible to get oil shipped even if one had it to ship. Tho transpoItation companies seem to ne ust as badly off as the power ana 1 ligntirg companies. Most of the west
 ern roads are equipped for oil burning and many of them are canceIiins trains merely te save fuel. Ii IS re ported that in the north even DasscI- ger trains are being pulled off. The local railroad companies are doing all within their power to relieve the sitlIa- ton and the Santa Fe company has beeen dividing it's local supply with the Pacific Gas and Electric company | until it can no longer do so withoE; endengering it's own train service.