a. Oil News, Sept. 5, 1919, p. 44.
Cost of movement of coal from mines to point of use averaged 4 mills per ton per mile last year. Fuel coal consumption aggre gated 630,000 tons at average cost of $3.50 f. o. b. mines, or $2,200,000, and average handling cost was approximately 17.95 cents per ton, or nearly $111,000, and average transportation cost was 83.1 cents or around $513,500, a total of over $2,800,000. Oil cost is figured initially as follows, in round figures : Cost of oil, $1,320,000; handling, $21,500; transportation, $854,000; cost of oil used in heating, $65,800; total, $2,261,300 for 2,226,000 barrels. A report to this railroad on the waste of coal in locomo tive consumption follows: "Coal_ in the first 24 hours after it leaves the mines will depreciate 2 percent on account of evapora tion of the moisture it contains. Investigation heretofore made also shows that the average 100,060 capacity car, in addition to running 2 percent short on account of evaporation, will average 1,000 pounds additional shortage on account of discrepancies in tare weights, mine weights, etc. There are further losses due to theft and loss in transit. No figures are available to show just what coal loses through deterioration in handling, and through storage, but it has been thoroughly established that every time coal is handled or moved it loses heat-producing value. Various authorities have agreed that there is an average loss equivalent to 5 percent between the mine and the locomotive due to the causes above enumerated, i. e., evaporation, theft, loss in transit, deterioration in handling, storage, etc." Among the many foreign railways which have converted all or part of their locomotives from coal-bUrners to oil-burners are : The Austrian State Railways, Western Railway of France, Paris, Lyons, and the Mediterranean, Paris and Orleans Railway, South Russian Railway, Roumanian State Railway, Los Angeles Rail way, Taltal Railway, Mexican Railway, Chilian Railway, Tehuan tepec National Railway, and the Mexican National and Inter oceanic Lines.
The United States Geological Surveya names the f ollowing railways in the United States which use fuel oil in their loco motives : Arizona : Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System. Southern Pacific Company.
Arkanzas: Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
California: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co.
San Diego & Arizona Railway Co.
San Diego & Southeastern Railway Co.
Southern Pacific Co.
Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Co.
Western Pacific Railroad Co.
Florida: Florida East Ccast Railway Co.
Georgia: Central of Georgia Railway Co. (on Tybee district).
Idaho: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Great Northern Railway Co.
Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.
Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway Co.
Kansas: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.
Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
Louisiana: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.
Houston & Shreveport Railroad Co.
Kansas ,City Southern Railway Co.
Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co.
Louisiana Western Railroad Co.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co.
New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway.
Missouri: Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
Montana: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Great Northern Railway Co.
Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Nebraska: Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Nevada: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.
Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Co.
Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Co.
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad.
Southern Pacific Co.
Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad Co.
Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Co.
Western Pacific Railroad Co.
New Mexico: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.
El Paso Southwestern System.
Southern Pacific Co.
New York: Delaware & Hudson Co. (in the Adirondacks).
New York Central Railroad Co. (in the Adirondacks, including Old Forge and the Fulton Chain).