Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 ralL road has abandoned article as fuel and is using wood ent along the line of the railroad. The merits of coal and Wood as fuels have been forked out carefully by this railroad, and when coal again becomes stabilized at a price sufficiently low, the use of this fuel will be resumed. Du ring former periods of high-coal prices this railroad ha» 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 bollere*— Scientific American. . L- ■