Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1917 — WOOD AS FUEL IN HONDURAS [ARTICLE]

WOOD AS FUEL IN HONDURAS

High Price of Coal Induces Railroad to Resort to Use of Coroza or Cahoon Nuts. Owing to the continued high price of coal the Honduras National railroad has abandoned this article as fuel and is using wood cut along the line of the railroad. The merits of coal -and—wood as fuels have been worked out carefully by this railroad, and when coal again becomes stabilized at a price sufficiently low, the use of this fuel will be resumed. During former periods of high-coal prices; this railroad has resorted to the use of “coroza” or “cahoon” nuts as fuel, and while from- a standpoint of economy and steam produced they have proved satisfactory, the Intense heat generated was detrimental to the boiler*/ Scientific American.