Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-01
PITTS ENGINE FAST COMING INTO PLACE
 AS GREAT MACHINE
Local People Behind Manufac- turing of New Type of Mo- tive Power Feel that Hardest Work is Now Over.

T hOlue luuuSiIN anu nOlnc Cdplldi have been rewarded The Pitts straight motion engine. manufactured | by the Pitts Manufacturing company,
 an organization completely controlled by Bisbee capital, is finding it's mar
 ket in the Warren District through
 the agency of the Phelps-Dodge Mer- ! cantile company where the one re- .maining engine, of shipment Of
 three. is on display in the hardware department.
 IL was about four years ago that some of the more nervy of the resi- dents of the city and District invested some of their money with John w. Pitts. To many it was thought rank | foolishness to put money into an en- fgine which was designed by a Bisbee man. The time has come, however, when the principle and the worth of the Pitts engine and the Pitts pro cess has been proven. The product now promises to come into it's own as the organization can handle the manu- featuring end of the enterprise.
 One of the greatest things to be | said in favor of the Pitts engine is the greatest power to be had from every cheap gas oil. Through the principle of straight motion. friction, ' lost motion. vibration and many of | the evils which combat the success Of other gas engines are overcome. It ' is this straight motion principle and the power principle which have been patented by Pitts in fifteen different countries of the world, including every one in Europe, Japan. Canada. Mexico and several others. It was these two principles which, when first advanced | by the inventor. were declared old and of no practical value. The patent papers, however, from the various novelty of the mechanosm and the principles involved. to say nothing of it's intrinsic worth.
 The Phelps-Doige Mercantile com pany, in ordering three of the en- zines direct from the Smith & Sons plant ia Kansas City, has demon stratai the practicability of the affair. Che Of the engines was sold to a val lev fa~fler. another was taken |. to TcMf7tore and the third is to be eac- i~ the hardware department of tho local store.
 Tho ether engine in the county is +'ct located on the Wootton ranch in 'hc Sulphur Springs valley. This en- ~'n" has been working for over two -~crs and is as fully satisfactory to- Joy. according to it's owner, as it was Nhen purchased. The simplicity of '-- construction, the efficiency in it's production and the economy in it's operation make of it. also in the eyes of the pleased owner, the best thing he has seen in the line of engines.
 The Pitts engine can be run on any kind of oil. It will burn tops. crude oil. gas oil. kerosene, gasoline or practically any other kind Of oil. Ac- cording to fuel eXnerts, however. crude oil has a metallic content and
  engines, owing to the presence of this' substance which works havoc with the engine.
 Some of the best results obtained with the Pitts engine were from a gas oil known as 32-43 gravity. This oil. which is free from any metallic con tent and which burns clean. leaving no carbon, when mixed with water in the proper proportion and sent through the Pitts mixer, has given great results. This class of oil. in the 1 larger centers. costs two and one half ! cents per gallon. In Bisbee the same oil costs four and three quarter cents | gallon. either of which is equal to the prices of crude oil, distallate or tops.
 The limits Of the enlargement Of l the field of operation for the Pitts | engine are hard to imagine Not only | has the company drawings and con- | pleted madels of a marine engine. but | a windmill nump. on the principle of | straight motion, noiseless, waterproof l and dustproof. tractor engines. aero plane engines and automobile engines are certain possibilities.
 The men behind the company feel that in the automobile is to be had the greatest field for operations The Pitts engine. according to the claims Of the inventor and officers and back ed up by mechanical theory and prac- tice. can be utilized by automobile Il engine builders to advantage. It can be constructed of fewer and less com plicated parts. it occupies less actual room, it will develop more power per given unit of space and will, as a re- suit of these various economies. added to that of lower fuel price, be the { salvation of the automobile makers. ; once the market in this line has been established
 There are SO many details of the { Pitts engine, each and every one of which are exceedingly interesting but C