The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-26

of oil of bitter almonds. and is used for the
same purposes. This is worth one dollar
per pound. Sd. Aniline, 9 dye used fol
producing the fashionable color MduUe-$5
to $8 per pound. 4tb. Pure vtolet AntItnt
po,Oder, $3.50 to 1926 per barrel.
There are two questions which will hard
Iy fail TO suggest themselves 10 any enc who
shall read what precedes These are: lst.
what will be the relation of supply and de.
mand in regard to the rock oils 10 The fu
ture and I'd, will the oil wells be individu-
Llly permanent
These questions are of not only high sci
entifc interest, but OF such practical i'm.
portance that thousands of dollars would be
cheerfully paid for full and truthful snswers
to them. Unfortunately, however, such
answers cannot now be given by human
wisdom; all the knowledge hitherto gained,
and all the experience of The past being in.
sufficient to enable ony one to predict with
certainty the issue Of cuse like the pre-
sent, in some respects without precedent
The supply of rock oil is evidently des-
tined, for the present, at least, to be large,
SO large that the business OF raising il must
come down from speculation to common
sense practical business.
The market, though prospec,ivey almost
unlimited, is for this product, not only new
but in great measure yet uncreated. Time
must eIapse before the substitution is made
by society of this article for that now in use
Meantime, and perhaps permanently, tht
supply will so fully meet the demand, tha
only those who are fayoraby situated, who
have wells which furnish good article in
large quantity, and pay little or 20 rent, viii
make large sums of nancy by them.
. When we reflect that some sc, 900 900 o.
gallons o oil, of varisus grades, are uset
annually in the United States, for purposes
which may be as we'll and more cheaply Sc
cured by rock oils, and that Europe offers
still wider market for them, quite as good a!
our own, we shall see that there is little
prospect of the rock oils becoming who'll,
valueless, even il every we'll should continue
to flow with its maximum yield, and the
number SHOULD be grestly multiplied.
Whether each we'll will continue to yiel,
constant quantity OF oil if steadily pumpe,
through series of years, is mere difficult
question than that of the market or the ag
gregate supply. Its solution must be 9
matter of experiment.
The wells el India, and lhs bsnks.ot ,th
4 Csspi shays affcsded = very large aaSaaa4
stant supply OF oil for severa hundred years
The Petroleum springs of Hit, from .vshic
the encient aby!onicns took the imRerish
Bile cement for their Cyelopean walls. st
continue to f1w; and the same NAV be ssi
Of the oil springs Of z into, mentioned b
HerodotuS. They yield apparently as niue
to day as they did $500 years ago.
The steom pump may, and prob abIy vii!
drain local reservoirs, and its power Of sue
ton may exceed the generatve cspacity q
limited areas. We must expect that som
wells will fail, but the history of those Ter
gest and most successfully pumped in III
oil region, so nearly constant in tha
yield, and affecting each other 50 little, give
satistac tory evidence that theirs is no epht
neral function, and has inspired conf
dence in the permaDence OF Gil wells hic
is stronger thsn ever before.