The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-12-10

oil 10 every point they can reach 30 Tar
80 good. While we are building rennsrles
We can run . branch TO tho B. Il o., and
also give the ..Ou to Buffalo road" the FL .
Ishing touch.
But the reader will say what isto bs
done now. Where is the immediate Relief
10 come from. Nothing easier. Let the
P. z. A. through it's council and agency an
nouuce that at given future date, cay
ninety or one hundred days, In fact any
time OF ell. Il does not msI,sr, just hx =
date, mat after which crude will not BE-
sold That ever after they will oiler end
handle only rrHnsd, and then the oil that
We have now flood ing the market And that
which we pump In the interior, will be
bought every drop by the Ret Com. Yes
licked up as clean as q huugfy sss will hck
up Its saucer of milk. and o. good fair
price. They will know il Is their last op-
portunity 10 buy crude here 10 sufficient
quantities to justify their continuance o'
the business, and this last batch they will
J"lh uspV"u upou 's'
A. for the Producers rsansries when
built, for the reason just given crrde may
be scarce, but the reiineries will bs paid
ior New industries " III grow up along
with them. Each producer has the consutn
er for . customer he can consien bis oil auyr
where for a market and with Individual Sn
lerprise thus free the demand will deepen
and widen ftr:theIe are millions Of lamps
to Gs
Instead Of production being limited and
dwarfed it will follow an ever natural
course. Between the producer and consum-
er nothing will intervene but a sraight fsr/
va, ,d.honest demand. Supply viii adjust t.
self readily.
The Producers kesoseDe must b. Of the
hrst quality, safs aud pure. That fac,
alone, when established, will Nsbs .ts
sale in domestic trade. In Europe, tbs
price OF animal food 10 80 high that animal
oils are too expensive to burn, and tbs
whale is nearly extinct. 10 Asia, nillisns
oil religonists will nse nothing for toad or
lamp purposes that ha. auy animal fss, aud
owing to the failure Of the olive groves
which were relied upoR to supply vegetable
oils for the table and taper, these populs.
tions are suffering from . scarcity Of light,
because food has precedence before light,
precious as IL is China and Japan use iu
the same shape and only await the advent
OF some Ah Sin 10 put lamp on ..ihs table
Of every mandarin and daimes, % veil 81
peasant of these vast empires. NsSer .isce
God lighted the world with the mstchlesl
sun beam has there been go rips an open
ing for toe Introduction ,ot . cheap, sale snd
good light. 1t ouly wants that tse foid b.
left open to the unlimited Traffic ani trad,
OF ,bs producer and Consumer 10 nsas tb,
demand Tor Illuminating and lubr icatins OF
exceed osr ability to supply The lamps ane
mschinery OF the wor d.
In all this there 10 nothing iancibls. l
10 all feasible. We only need to engage I,
supply directly to ths consumer The vorlt
over a cheap and good light. Cheaper in .
bi'uminous coal region than the gas the,
get from their coal. Cheaper N Eurep
Than tallow and lard. Chesper In Asi'
than Olive oil, and the demand will bs .
every door daily. Next 10 hunger al
thirst, light speaks . common language Of
necessity that must be ptovidSd ioE 90,
the want OF civilization like ours forms u
barrier " atevoI. If the P. p. A. will d.
this at onoe. the vslns Of property bore vii
advance from that moment, and redneris
outside o! the oil ssy yioos will be % muc
old innk.