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OIL REPLACES COAL.

Oil is quietly but steadily replac ing coal as a fuel. At present the coal business is something of a back number everywhere on the Pacific Coast. All of the coast steamers now burn oil, the last to fall into line being the Pacific Coatst Steamship Company, the owners of which are coalmine owners in the Washington field. Reliable advices state that there is now little demand from manufacturers for coal, and no demand at all from the railroad companies. Even the Canadian Pacific, with mines, of good steam coal near at hand, uses oil fuel instead of coal. The demand for coal to-day in San Francisco is said to to be limited to the coal for.domestic use. Coal is still burning in many households, but it is being supplanted by gas made from oil. How much the coal trade of the Pacific Coast has Buffered from the oil era i 3 demonstarted by the fact that the importations of foreign coal have shrunk to comparatively small proportions. There was once a time when San Francisco's requirements of coal were approximately 4000 lons a day, and the supply came from the mines of Great Britain, Australia, and British Columbia, foreign, and from the States of Washington and Oregon, domestic. To-day there is substantially no coal coming from Great Birtain, practically none from British Columbia, and the Australian and Japanese mines about supply the le-juire-ments for foreign coal. In 1902 the imports of coal totalled 190,859 tons, while in 1913 the quantity had dropped to 82,697 tons. Wherever fuel oil is procurable in sufficient quantities it is displacing coal, for oil is regarded as the cheaper and better fuel:

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 6

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OIL REPLACES COAL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 6

OIL REPLACES COAL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 6

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