The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-08-22
FUEL EXPERTS TELL HOW
TO ECONOM|zE ON FUEL

IF every woman who burns coal ir
the cook or heating stove will save a
B handful of coal day the saving will
4 amount to fifteen million tons in a
! year."
This is the statement of M. A. Daily,
fuel expert of the Northern Pacific
railroad who is making a tour of that
line for the purpose of inducing a saw
! ing III the consumption of coal. Mr..
DAILY is accompanied by M. F. Brown, of
Tacoma, who has charge of the fuel
i supply of the Northern Pacific in the
VI west. Mr. DAILY has headquarters at St
2 Paul. The two gentlemen gave very
f interesting and instructive lecture in
Guild hall of St. Marks Episcopal
church last night There were just 80
, persons present of whom seven were
5 women. The hall should have been
packed, for the lectures were we'll worth
attending and the subject discussed is
one of vital Importance to everyone in
Moscow
These men are sent out by the North
ern Pacific railroad, but are working
under the direction of the national fuel
administration and their work is re-
garded by both the railroad and the fuel
administration as of high Importance.
They have a demonstration car which
stops at the most important points along
the railroads and the firenlen Hitsi engi-
neers are called in and lecturcd and
shown how to conserve fuel. Careful
study has shown that every time the
safety valve of locomotive pops Off
with an oyer-pressure of steam, IS
pounds of coal are wasted and if one
pop off" day is saved by each fire
man the total saving in year runs into
millions of tons
That the fuel situation is critical was
shown by Mr.. Brown, who said that last
winter 51l munition factories that are
providing munitions of war without
whose products the war cannot be sue
cessfully carried on by the United
States, we're closed for lack of fuel.
There is not a shortage of coal in the
mined" said Mr. Daly "On the con-
trary, more coal is being mined now
than ever before. Since the war began
the output of coal has been increased
100000 tons, having jumped from an
average annual output of 450,00O,OOO to
65O0OO,000 tons, but the consumption
has increased more than the output and
the greatest cause of the scarcity of coal
people will buy their coal now, before
cold weather begins, it will save the gov
ernment using cars and locomotives to
haul coal to them next winter when the
coal is needed for the big manufacturing
plants of the east and middle west"
To illustrate the enormous extent of
the coal industry and the vast number
of cars required to haul it Mr. DAILY
said: "You have great wheat country
out here in the Inland Empire. 1t IS
known both in Europe and Asia. But
all of the wheat produced in this Inland
Empire could be hauled to market IN
the coal cars of the United States in
10 DAYS. This is Wednesday. If we'were
to use the cars required to haul our coal
to haul this wheat and start tonight, it
would all be hauled a week from next
Saturday evening. If we were to take
our coal cars to haul our great cotton
crop and begin at noon today it would
all be hauled by tomorrow night If we
were to load the 2OO,0O0,O00 tons of coal
increase over the ouput before the war
into cars at the rate of so tons to the
car and string them out between New
York and San Francisco, we would have
16 railroad tracks the entire distance,
covered with carloads of coal"
Mr.. DAILY showed how to save coal.
Fold the men and women present how
more heat can be secured with the use
If less coal The great fundamental
dea that he wished to drive home is
his !: "No fire can burn without oxy-
yen and this comes from the air. Osy-
yen must come up through the fuel
coal or wood) from the bottom, only,
o get the best results If air reaches
he fire from any other direction than
rom the bottom, coming up through
he coal or wood or coke-through all
f it, not just in spots, fuel is wasted
nd the heat is not all extracted
Heavy black smoke is All indication
f waste of fuel energy and heat If
our fire is burning as it should there