Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Increased Use of Petroleum. [ARTICLE]

Increased Use of Petroleum.

The United States geological survey reports that there was a marked increase in the use of petroleum as a locomotive fuel by the railroads of the United States in 1915. The quantity of oil fuel sb consumed last year was 36,648,466 barrels, an increase of 5.555,200 barrels, or 18 per cent oyer thb similar consumption, of 1'914.