Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1913 — New Auto Fuel Will Benefit Auto Owners. [ARTICLE]

New Auto Fuel Will Benefit Auto Owners.

The new automobile fuel appearing on the market under the name of “motor spirit” will, according to many automobile authorities, both in this country and abroad, do away,'for many years at least, with the fear of a fuel shortage that will raise prices to a figure almost prohibitive for many motorists. The new fuel can be sold for 3 cents a gallon less than the present price of gasoline, and it has an efficiency of 15 per cent more mileage per gallon than ordinary grades of gasoline. It is not, however, because the new fuel ean be sold cheaper than gasoline that it is to have such an important bearing on the auto and fuel question, but that One hundred gallons of crude oil may now be depended on to yield forty gallons of automobile fuel, instead of only twenty gallons. Formerly 100 gallons of crude oil gave twenty gallons of gasoline, twenty gallons of kerosene, and sixty gallons of fuel oil. Under the new process of refinement the crude oil still gives the twenty gallons of gasoline and twenty gallons of kerosene, while thr sixty gallons of fuel oil is refined so as to give twenty gallons of motor spirit, the remaining forty gallons being a residue which may be sold for other purposes. This residue is said to be almost as valuable as was the fuel oil.—Popular Mechanics

Congress In all probability will yield to the protests of eigtht foreign nations against the provision iq the Underwood tariff bill granting a 5 per cent tariff discount on imports in America owned or controlled vessels. It was reported yesterday in Washington that the state department held it to be unquestionable that the clause violated treaties. The largest cargo of iron ore ever shipped, 12,170 tons, is on its way down Lake Superior on the Snyder, Jr., of the Shenango fleet. Deeper draft at the Soo locks made the cargo possible. The average cargoes run near 7,500 tons.