Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888Various
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
Various
Science -- Periodicals
And now I have told you that the results detailed in this short paper
were those obtained in the Dundee gas works. This is so; but were I to
leave the matter here, it might be inferred that I considered similar
results might be obtained in any and every gas works. I would not
mislead you; and therefore must detain you for a few moments longer in
order to show you how my town is different from many others. Dundee is
very peculiarly situated in this respect. It is a long distance from
any tar distiller's works capable of dealing with the large quantity
of tar we have for sale during the winter. A large portion of the
value of our tar must, therefore, go to the railway company, to cover
the cost of transit between the two points, and so the tar distiller
can allow us but a small figure for it at the starting point. Then
again, Dundee being far distant from the coal fields, the coal is
exceptionally high in price. I quite believe that in many of the west
country towns the coal for which we are paying 5s. per ton could be
had for 3s.; and the tar for which we are receiving 4s. per ton, they
would get not much under the double of this. Therefore, you see, in a
place so circumstanced, the figures I have given would be most
misleading. Still, I doubt not there are places as badly situated as
Dundee; and it is to such places that my remarks are directed. I
believe also that, in many towns distant from collieries, the tar
might be sold to manufacturers for use in their steam boilers; and
such an arrangement would, I think, prove advantageous both to the
seller and the user of this liquid fuel.
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