. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A SPOUTING MKLL. OIL-TANKS. 417. 418 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. way Company in its locomotives, where it lias completely taken the placeof coal. It is the only fuel used by the Trans-Caucasian railway fromBaku to Batoum and Poti, and wherever it has been tried in competi-tion with coal brought from great distances, it has been adopted. Iwonder you dont make use of it in America. Doctor Bronson suggested that probably the reas
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A SPOUTING MKLL. OIL-TANKS. 417. 418 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. way Company in its locomotives, where it lias completely taken the placeof coal. It is the only fuel used by the Trans-Caucasian railway fromBaku to Batoum and Poti, and wherever it has been tried in competi-tion with coal brought from great distances, it has been adopted. Iwonder you dont make use of it in America. Doctor Bronson suggested that probably the reason why liquid fuelhad not taken the j^lace of coal in America, was in consequence of the rela-tive prices of the two substances. In Russia, said he, coal is dear ; inAmerica it is cheap, and our coal-fields are exhaustless. Three hundredthousand tons of coal have been carried annually from England to theBlack Sea; it retails there for ten or twelve dollars a ton, which would bean enormous price in America. Now what will your petroleum fuel costat Batoum ? The present price, said his informant, is twenty-six English shil-lings (nearly seven dollars) a ton. Weight for weight, it is c
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