The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-16
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steamers on the Atlantic side can be
loaded at It's own wharves.
am told that they are now loading
steamers which cannot cross the bar
at Tuxpan near here by running six
inch pipes out into the sea to where
the water has n depth of sixty feet
Here the tank steamers can catch up
the flexible pipes and thus take on
the oil. The pipes are about one mile
long, and they arc connected with ten
great tanks on the shore. each of
which holds $4,000 barrels. These
tanks arc filed from the big gusher
have already referred to, which is
thirty three miles away.
New OIL Fleet.
i hear also report that tho HAM
burg American Line will put on n
fleet Of oil steamers to run To Ta,npico
and that IT only awaits the building
of enough tanks TO warrant II a con-
slant supply OF freight Of this char
acter 1T takes about tankfui or oil
to fill ship. and single steamer will
carry from $4,000 to 10000 barrels 1t
is rumorcd that a British company has
already been organized to build n feet
of nifty tank steamers, each TO hold
5000 barrels. the same 10 he engaged
in the Mexican trade. Connected with
the company will be also fifty tanks
OF the same capacity. and the scheme
is to carry this oil for the fuel trade
Kingdom and the continent
AS II is now. hundreds of thousands
of barrels are being shipped from
Tampico and Tuxpan every month
In September last one United States
company alone shipped 32s.o0u barrels
of Mexican crude oil from Tampico to
| Sabine Texas, and in October the
Gulf Refining Company took $4,000
barrels The new German tank
steamer Adorna, which has capa-
city OF $4,000 barrels, has entered this
trade. II Will take carGoes OF oil
from the Standard OH Company's re-
finery in Louisiana to Argentina, and
on the return trip will stop at Tam
pico and bring crude oil to the re-
finery.
Fuel oil for Panama.
great part OF the oil which comes
from Mexico is we'll adapted for fuel
1t Is OF heavy, viscous character and
comes from the wells. although IL can
also be refined into good standard
Illuminating oil. a large amount OF
IL Is now used to run the locomotives
on the Mexican railways. and 1t will
probably supply the great reservoirs
which will furnish the oil fuel for the
ships going through the Panama
Canal. 1t is the intention OF our gov
eminent to have oil fuel depots as
we'll as coal depots at Panama. and
there are many who believe that oil
like this will be the standard tseam-
ship fuel OF the future.
The cunard company recently Investigated
this matter through board o! engineers
appointed especially for the purpose. IL
tested the use OF oil on its iarges, steam
ships. and declared that the fuel saving
would be at least 20 per cent This comes
not only from the first cost OF the fuel. but
from the fewer men needed in the boiler
rooms and at the furnaces. vessel like the
Lusitania now carries about 100 men fire.
men and coal passers. BY using oil this
number can be reduced TO g. per cent. and
moreover the storage space for the oil is
much less than that needed for coal In The
above experiment the oil was converted into
gas before IL VAS put into the engines.
4 motor using raw oil recently shown
at Nuremberg. Germany. This produced 100
horse power. and II weighed only about
ton and half This is II per cent of the
weight of a gas motor plant of the same
power.
Fuel OIL for Gunboats.
am told that most of the steamships
now projected are contemplating the use OF
fuel oil, and that At the meeting Of the
naval architects in London not long ago il
was stated that 30 vessels were 10 be