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in each direction between Port Tarafa and Falla, beyond Moron, and four freight 

 and combination trains from Port Tarafa to Ciego de Avila by way of the Jucaro & 

 Moron Railroad from Moron. 



A 50,000 Gallon Oil Tank for Cuban Central 



Railway at Cienfuegos, Sold to 



Sinclair Oil Company. 



CRUDE OIL AS A FACTOR IN CANE 

 PRODUCTION 



Crude oil, which has been introduced 

 very extensively in the United States and 

 Europe as a factor in the production of 

 steam, has found its place in the Island 

 of Cuba among the sugar centrals and 

 railroads, where its adoption is meeting 

 with great sviccess, and the only question 

 is that of a sufficient supply to meet the 

 ever increasing demand. 



Sugar centrals whose locomotives for- 

 merly burned coal are converting these 

 locomotives into oil-bunilng locomotives 

 for two reasons. First, oil is more eco- 

 nomical to use than coal, being about 

 one-third or one-half as expensive, and 

 second, for the very important reason 

 that the oil-burning locomotives cannot 

 drop cinders along the roadbed, as do the 

 coal-burning locomotives. This defect of 

 the coal-burning locomotives has been the 

 c&psg Qt man^ fires, involving great 



losses. 



The crude oil is brought to Cuban ports 

 in large tank steamers and shipped inland 

 in tank cars to the centrals and railroad 

 shops where it is stored in elevated tanks 

 for the railroads and ground level tanks 

 for the centrals. 



The accompanying photographs have 

 been furnished through the courtesy of 

 the Casey-Hedges Company of Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn., who are the Cuban repre- 

 sentatives of the Chicago Bridge and Iron 

 Works, manufacturers of these oil tanks. 



The Sinclair-Cuban Oil Company, with 

 headquarters in New York, are carrying 

 out a very extensive program for the fur- 

 nishing of crude oil to the Island of Cuba. 

 The Texas Company and the West India 



Guines- 



-Construction Work of the Sinclair 

 Oil Company. 



