The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-24
'fmlmercial Advertiser.
Mineral OiIs.

.nf.etures of coal-oils have increased
d = -spidity that their development an
S ~. something like phenomenon. About
nearly all the oils that were en-
70. srtifcial illumination, were obtained
listers of 80 the great deep;" and our
~h,Ien,en had made the distant Pacific
- u he Frozen seas of the North their
- Iantiug grounds. But with every re-
- rsar their dangers seemed to increase.
- - uroducts as manifestly decreased, and
GU WIS becoming so limited that general
ts.:;,us were excited as to obtaining a suf
!. auantitv from any other source 1t is
s,i oiIs from oieaginous seeds, resin and the
Smestic animals were well known and to
I'D extent used !, and although it was
- by some persons that they might be in
= 10 bOundless extent the feeling was
's-nant that unless some new discovery was
4 deficiency of oil would certainly be felt.
"a, this iuncture that a discovery was an
- which met the public requirements, and
= f1r novelty and usefulness, has few if any
q. This invention was nothing less than
i.srr oil from botfled-up sunlight-the dis
Inn Of it from the submerged forests of FORM
,rs which in the shape of coal, has been
= IN the bosom of the earth for thousands
-, The light of the sun was necessary for
,,siiluvian eoal-vegetation to condense car
nj hydrogen hence it is truly this absorb
gst Of ancient DAYS which now gives forth
5-rinz beams from our coal-oil lamps
n Srst account which we have of this oil, is
Ca;ued in the patent of j. Young, published
u-s Is6, Vol XIV, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
k.,bough it has been said, that such oils were
I<;rsly known, we have searched in vain for
-yri Of the fact. 1t is now only nine years
= this discovery was made known to the
Il and at that time (lS5O), not a pint of
! a had been manufactured in our country,
VS. there any made for four years after
4. 50 tar as we have been able to learn
Ia Is the fact now? More oils are made
= Gals in one week. in our country than ever
= obained by our whale-fsher in the best
y. fishing they ever enjoyed. At present
y districts of Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio,
IA great quantity is now made in the neigh
Escd of this city The oldest factory of this
|acter in this region, is the kerosene-works
J. The eastern district of Brooklyn, on Long
|ni- Ii Is certainly a wonderful place, both
ssOunt Of the original method of distilling
cals, and the vast extent of the premises.
te years ago, few pounds of coal, according
De common methods, were here distilled in
.sh fashioned retorts, now there have been
ed several rows of retorts, each of which
ains % tons of coal and this amount is work.
i As regular charge at one operation The
sapIe of action embraced in these retorts is
Ily different from all others it is exactly
sne as that of smoking a pipe of tobacco,
10 this account it is called the s'meerschaum.
l Of these retorts is built of brick, in the
sof a huge pipe-bowl and when the coal is
ii in, the fire is kindled on the top with
:rete The draft of the heated products
n through thesscoal is effected by steam power,
the oil vapors that are carried off below are
isnsed into crude-oil and pass from a conduct
pipe into a tank. The process is strange
indeed (; here steam is applied to a new pur-
certainly-that of 50 smoker" on a grand
E for the production of oil for our lamps.
operations are under perfect regulation to
'ent the camel coal undergoing combustion
tese works there is one of such retorts now
he course Of erection, which will be able to
ks 100 tons of coal at one operation and
re s no reason that can be urged against APP
ing the principle on still larger scale. By
middle of next September arrangements will
completed for making 5000 gallons of kero-
eOil per day at these works or over 800 200
uus per annum: and from this fact the pub
VII be able to form some.idea of our great
roving oil manufacture.-Scl. Am.