The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-22
GREAT SAVING OF COAL
BY ELECTR|f|CAT|ON
MILWAUKEE SHOWS REMARK
ABLE RESULTS ECONOMY
OF OPERATION.

railway, enough coal has been cor
served to send United States tor
pedo boat destroyer on 2,36S trip
about the British isles. Forty fiv
snch destroyers, on the coal conserve
on this division alone, could be ker
steaming in constant processio
week in and week out, for the entir
year on the complete circuit abou
England, Ireland and Scotland pro
tecting shipping against the ravage
of the U-boats. The annual saving OF
this division is sufficient to send 8
ocean liners of $4,000 tons displace
ment from the United States to France
bearing troops and supplies for gu
armies.
Yet this conservation of fuel is onl,
e-half of that already being effected
on the electrified divisions, and one.
third of what will be ACCOMPLISHED
when the Cascade mountain zone is
added to the electrified mileage next
year.
Division Saves 100000 Tons.
What this aspect of Identification
means namely, conservation of the ua :
TONS fuel resources, became knoMn
when figures We're given out by an of
fetal of the Milwaukee showing the
fuel that would have been burned in
hauling by steam of trains now opera :
ted by electricity. On the Rocky
mountain division alone over 200, 600
tons of coal would have been required
this year to haul the traffic now NOV.
ing over the continental divide by cleo
tricity. On the Missoula division ad-
joining to the westward, electrically
operated now, but formerly burning
fuel oil, the requirements this year
would have been 425,0oO barrels of oil
The third saving, to come when cleo
IRRIGATION now under way is completed
in the Cascades, will add 375,O0O bar
rels of fuel oil to the annual conser-
vation.
Aid in Nation Wide Campaign.
The conservation of fuel has been
effected by the Milwaukee when
such saving is one of the primary
tries as a whole. Extensive reduc-
tons in passenger train service have
been made throughout the United
States, aggregating at a recent date
the direct purpose of saving man pow
er, fuel and motive power to be APP
piled to the transportation of neces-
stiles.
How important is the saving effect
ed by the Milwaukee is apparent from
the fact that entire reduction of train
mileage has resulted in the saving of
| 100000 tons of coal per year The
the Milwaukee's Rocky mountain div
ision, disregarding the saving of oil on
the Missoula division, is thus Is per
cent or nearly one-fifth of the total
ways of the United States through
of train milage. The saw
ing on this one division is larger than
that effected by all New England roads
by reduction of train service; nearly
one-third that effected by all eastern
roads and nearly one-half that effected
by all roads of the central territory.
Water Power Is the Reason.
This tremendous supply of coal and
fuel OIL" said an official of the Mil
waukee,' is still unconsumed because
trains have received their energy from
power plants instead of steam locomo-
tives and because the power plants
have derived their energy from water
power instead of coal or oil.
Here are two natural resources of
the highest Importance actually con-
served at a time when they are most
essential to the welfare of the nation,
when a shortage of fuel is threatened
in the northwest and every facility of
production and transportation is being
strained to meet it. That factories
may not have to close, railways have
been giving priority to shipments of
coal. Hardship will be relieved and
industry will be aided by this saving
OF over 100000 tons of coal and $4,000
barrels of oil for householders and
manufacturers"
Importance to Industry.
Almost endless, it was pointed out,
Is the chain of effects which such
conservation of fuel supplies is playing
IN the Industrial structure of the
northwest Man power is being saved
TO the extent of the thousands of days
labor necessary for the mining and
production of this quantity of coal and
OIL The coal saving alone is nearly
eight per cent of the entire yearly out
put of Montana mines. Cars neces-
sary for transportation are released
Tor the carrying Of other supplies es-
sential to the protection and industry
OF the nation. for 5000 coal cars and
l,756 tank cars would have been need
ed to haul the railways annual fuel
supply.
Additional savings of fuel have been
erected in the operation of the block
signal system, formerly worked by
batteries served from electric plants
burning coal, but now run through the
medium Of water power.
There is another element of con-