Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Oil for Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Oil for Fuel.

Coal is scarce and high A n the Argentine Republic, and many/pf the locomotives of the Argantins Great Western railroad are being fitted for the, use of petroleum as fuel, and it will probably supersede all other fuel on that road. The oil-uged is* heavy,pptrotem found; at pear thejinie. .of. the road,' which answers the purpose of fuel fairly well, although it has been fotfhd impossible to refine it so -as to" make"a goid lamp oil. The economy is very considerable as-the railroad company can procure this oil pt present at a cost of ’QIS paper per ton-equivalent* to about $3 gold—while English coal, which t has been used on parts of the Une, .costs S2O gold per ton. . , , rI