El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-20
NEW CARBIIRE TOR DFVIGE WILL
SOLVE WAY To CHEAPER FUEL
Columbia Professor Has Little Faith in Substitutes for
Gasoline But Urges Perfection of Carburetor
That VIII Use Kerosene or Other
Cheap Fuel in Motors.

-EW YORK, Jan. 20-Two great
M questions are uppermost in the
i y colossal endeavor to attain that
great goaI-the possible distribution
of the motor car.
One concerns first cost, the price OF
the car. At how low a price can a SER
viceable car be produced?
The other concerns second cost, oper-
alton. At how low cost per mile can
a car bs driven?
In operation cost fuel during the past
year assumed 4 greater prominence
man ~ had ever held before since the
automobile became 4 practical vehicle
January /, 1916, the wholesale price
of gasoline was q cents gallon rive
days later It went up TO % cents On
February Z it had climbed another
point. and on March - advanced TO "a
cents or about 80 cents gallon to the
consumer This price held until August
2 when drop of a cent a gallon was
announced During this time there was
not only widespread discussion or the
gasoline problem, but also many IN
designations, including one by the fed
eral government. seeking TO IND out
whether the high price was justified
New processes for the disullatlon OF a
larger content Of gasoline from crude
oil and proposed new fuels received
much attention from the motoring pup
lie, but out Of ii all no generally recoE-
Eized contribution OF Importance to-
ward the solution of the problem was
made On September the price or
gasoline was reduced another cent 10
-, and then there were numerous pre-
dictiOns that gasoline would in a short
time be down to its former price in
the teens Soon after the price Of crude
began to advance. indicating that any
further drop in the price Of gasoline
was unlikely.
solve Fuel Problem.
nj "a
problem Of low-priced fuel for the au-
tomobile- one is by some new chemi-
cal process, the other by improved
mechanical appliance Both OF these
ways may contribute to the ultimate
end in view The reward that would
come to the successful inventor or dis
coverer Is immense Because OF the
great reward and the growing pressure
for the solution Of a problem OF the
first commercial Importance not only
from a national but a worldwide
special training for the task in hand
are intently at work trying 10 win the
pre-.
That the solution will come. and in
ample time not to hinder the wider
end wider distribution of the motor
vehicle. seems to be a safe prediction
when the history OF the great lnven-
tons and discoveries Of the past IS con-
suited and the timeliness Of their ap-
pearance is noted Just to cite two
instances in the Industrial history OF
the United States: The cotton planta-
tons of a whole tier of states in the
south called for a cheap way TO gin
cotton. Out of that desire and need
appeared the cotton gin The great
grain fields of the west called for
cheap way to reap the grain. and In
response TO the urgency of that situa
ton the reaper arrived
New Mechanical Appliance.
The solution Of the motor fuel PROB
lem viii come through a mechanical
wi TnItOm0-
bile to run on kerosene. at a cost per
nile III Csc Of The liEl- car- OF