New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-09

COAL OIL MANUFACTURE AND ITS PROSPECTS.
To ne Editor Of The N. " Tribune
SIR: The rapidity with which the manufacture Of
an economical and safe illumination from coal has pro-
gressed, will perhaps render few statistics concerning
il not unnteresting. The growth of the coal oil bus
only paraleled by that of the sewing-ma-
chine which was brought to public notice at about the
same time. The first manufacture of this OH was com
menced in this city in 1853 by company. For more
than year from this time the oil called Kerosene by
the patentee was with much labor introduced by the
company to public use. Manufacturers OF camphene
burning fluids opposed it, introduction IN every way some
BY sing the coal oil with their explosive productions rem
dens as dangerous cmphene and others by denouncns
the odor OF coal oil unwholesone and disgusting Inc pupil
ss sed ye coon than csmphene and ud At hall
price, that harm resulted from its odOr which In ne
rather With the enterprise which chaaetezes onI
people when field opens TO them, no sooner mad s on
obtained decided oohod In the public mind than many per
sons followed the track Of the pioneer Company and invested
largely the seabOad building factories Of immense SIZE ana
importing coal most eIorbitant pces In the interior IN ns
camel dis c Of the West speculation In coal OIL became
mania second only IN nenss 70 no os Of the
yield Of oil from Of coal were published some Of the 60
Ceao works Of the capacity 1000 gallons per lem
were erected in different of the country The scientific
% hgwey taking degree in , Shs.is,Ty for m sysy
were by foolish and nconceyed experiments Numerous
patents taken out for alleged improvements most OF thsu
copies Of ancient patents long discarded lew only were
In fs coal oil may be said to have article Of con-
At that time there five coal OIL factories on tle 's
January 1860 they numbered FIFTY in the Atlantic cities ana
over one hundred Western States The Western OIL tn
competed 18th that made here and the price when a
at Is to 81 per ga.n fen 8c and then to oOc andat
the present time which is however the duh season Tor oh can
be purchased o s to S per sSop those in
the business here, and discouugng further attempts az
turin oil tine seaboad and with good reason Inc es
Camel coal fields must be the great source whence va
viii be obtained, and the means oil destroying It, Ponar
manufacture here During the past two bitumlno1s mat
rul. OF III kinds have been imported TO compete WIN
coal chemist informs the writer that he has used twenty
varieties Of Goals and oiyieldng articles since I
Bogead coal from Scotland Poole coal from ooth
of England Of refuse pitch from Prices candle
actoy London asphrltu Trinidad and CUBA btuninou'
CLAW from Brazil haes from Nova Scotia Albert coal and as
pls shales New Brunswick and Rangoon petroleum from
India These npotons must soon cease For the information
OF those no may eng &c in the coal oil business which, al
profitable the country few figures viii be given q prove that
Il hopeless for the coal oil manufacturers in the Atlantic cities
10 enter into competition with the Western producer
According report Of the Kerosene Oil Co.. the cost OF
manufacturing Boghesd COAL at per tun Is ~ cents
The writer can state that from Albert coal, at
III per un the 90 ct. per gs
From Prices pitch at 80 Gus PEI ga
t1om Cuba bituinen az r..
From Nova Scotia shale, at So cts per gal
From W stem camel Goals, with average yield Of
80 gale per tun, 3. per tun ets per gs
Several companies mine aid deliver te cod az
pt the average cost i about 10 cts per tn IN man!
places Of skill has In most prevented the mahue
producer will become su as those oil tue
seaboard Shipment crude oil to ills market VIII css;e
produce cheapest place and sell at the dearest The on
wells they called will help supply the growing deand
able. Speculation in these wells however, run. rathe 700 sn
for commercial and will be well for partle. VINO
these deposits petroleum to zee that the claims are
and not dug settled If such term may De used
here The great trade in this and most important
article Of daily will be- however dependent upon the mex
hastble bed Of camel coal which he beyond the AuesS