Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-03-31
CHEAPER FUEL
/ IN THE future
Reasons Why Gasoline and
Naptha Must be Sup
planted by DistiIIates
Explanation is Plain and Easy
to be Understood by
those Interested.

BY reason of the extensive pump
|ng operations carried on In this sec
|ion by our farmers who are usini
Internal combustion engines opcrat
|ne on various liquid fuels at prices
fanging from five 10 twelve cent
per gallon, It behooves us TO invest
Rate the fuel problem in regard h
cost per gallon and future supply
n majority Of the engines in The
valley are operating on a low grade
of gasoline marketed under tn,
name of Engine Naptha', costing
~ present prices IL cents per gal
Ion. This fuel comes under the
bead of volatile Hydro-Carbon OF
81 degrees Baume Scale, or a spe'
cific gravity Of .76S.
II has long been admitted by en-.
Eineers that gasoline is an unsatis-
factory fuel for use in engines Of
moderate and large sizes on account
of the limited supply and excessive
cost rs compared 10 other liquid fu-
els. At present gasoline can only
be distilled in commercial quantities
from l6 per cent of the American
crude oils and this percentage Is
constantly reducing as the wells are
bumped down. In former years
stove gasoline registered as high as
"a degrees Baume Scale. with a
specifc gravity of .6sS. but the de-
mand for domestic and automobile
pse exceeded the supply and the
Quality dropped 10 81 degrees
Baume Scale with a specific gravity
of TAO as sold in the open market
<oday. Engine Naptha has conse-
quently deprecated from 81 degrees
10 "a degrees, or the specific grav-
ity of distillate No. /. As 200.O00
automobiles were manufactured and
bold in the United States last year
Ind the 1911 delivery Is approximate
I'd at 325, 900 machines, a conserva-
live estimate will place the number
of automobiles operating in the
United States at the end Of the year
at $50, 900, tending to make the
price of gasoline prohibitive for 9TH
er than domestic and automobile
use. AT least one automobile race
has been called of in recent years
on account Of the inability of the
operators to obtain a satisfactory
grade Of gasoline. Automobile en-
gineers have each year designed
their engines to operate on a lower
grade of gasoline. realizing that ev-
entually the automobile engine
will operate solely on engine naptha
tdistillate No. y of "a degrees
Baume Scale. This conclusion will
preclude its use in stationary en-
gines and a cheaper liquid fuel must
be evolved.
The fuel to meet ideal conditions
must have advantages over gasoline
other than its lower cost, among
them being a higher critical point
precluding evaporation losses at
normal temperatures; capable OF
standing higher compression press
ures and the addition Of a Hydro
gen and Oxygen atom, reducing the
Initial and increasing the mean
effective pressurcs Of the expansive
gasses; volatile base; and in oper'
alton inducing better fabrication. .
constant temperature Of the cylin
der walls Insuring even expansion Of
the moving parts, and scavennine
action on the cylinder and exhaust
passages. The supply should be in
exhaustible by reason Of all Ameri'
can crude oils carrying low volatile
Hydro-C -Carbons In commercial guam
titles. as the predoming constituents
Of crude oils are Hydrogen ant
Carbon. The specific gravity woulc
be .S09 at 80 degrees Iiaume. ant
.ssa at 80 degrees, Economical re
suits would accrue for the use o.
the fuel In an engine designed fol
Its use, but II would be useless Il
engines designed for more volatile
Hydro.Carhon.
Crude and fuel oils fail 10 mee
the requirements by having had TN