The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-07-30
Petroleum in Turkey.

by Mr. Lewis Farley, consul OF the SuDlime
Porte at Bristol, we take the following
Chapter, ss we'll worthy the attention of our
readers.
"The astounding results both insnc ial
and material, which have accrued from the
discovery of petroleum in the United States,
Of America and 10 Canada, are too well
known to need recapitulation. Instead,
however, OF being confined, as was ut first
supposed, to single district, II has been
demonstrated that Petroleum exists 10 so
large an area % to justify the belief that not
country In the world is destitute Of this val
nable product 10 America the trade has
assumed gigantic proportions. The first
export Of this article was in May. 1860.
when 10000 gallons were sent to Antwerp.
The total export 10 that year was 2, 800, 900
gallons, which, 10 1868, increased to 99,-
2sl, 600, and In 1870 to 14l,20S,l55 gal
Ions.
10 England, Germany, Italy, the islands
Of the Ottoman Archipelago and Syria'
earth oil has either been found iu abundance
or is known to exist; aud, in alFprobsbility
It will be discovered 10 Russia, Persia, In
dis and China. But there is no country 10
the Old World which has been SO plainly
proved to be land flowing with petroleum
as the United Prineipalities of Roumsnia.
Over the whole OF the Carpathians 1t oozes
through the soil and pollutes the water
springs. Associated capital has been
brought TO bear on its extraction and ex-
port; bat strange enough. the meehanics
appliances by which success has been achiev'
ed In other countries, have only recently
been introduced into Wsllachis. Iguoring
the experience Of Others, the Roumania pet
roleum companies have been content to
adopt the primitive mode OF collection in
use with the peassntry, by making excava-
tions into the earth, into which the oil, sat
urating the strata, fowa By this means
large quantities Of petroleum have been OBJ
tanned; but the cont inued necs esity Of max
log fresh holes or wells, with risk Of the
surrounding land turning out to be nop.pro.
commercial working on large scale, stten-
tion is now directed almost exclusively to
deep boring, with every prospec. of success
The value Of petroleum cannot we'll be
overestimated, as the demand for the article
is constantly increasing, while the knowl-
edge of its uses Is daily extending. Burn
log spirit and lnbricating oil have heretofore
been the principal products of distilla,iou.
but new use eeems likely 10 he found for
| crude petroleum ss steam fuel. In Amer.
lea IL hes supplanted coal 10 some manufac-
tn ring. establishments, while the Govern
ments, both Of the United States and Great
Britain, have been experimenting with the
view ofdetermining relative superiority ov-
er coal In vessels Of war, The result of the
trials, with specially constructed furnace
and porous vehicle for the oil, ere said to
be very satisfactory; ono pound Of oil evap-
Grating thirteen pounds Of water, with a
gain Of something like 40 per cent. in the
| eSgiue.
The advantages claimed for petroleum a.
. steam fuel are cheapness % generator,
economy of space for storage, and greater
simplicity In the arrangement Of the fur
mace. 1t is needless to say that every one
of these propositions 10 combsted by some
scientific man on theoretical grounds, but
even assuming that the experiments have
proved ss satisfactory as stated, It does not
necessarily follow that petroleum could
supercede coal in o country where the lat.
ter mineral is plentiful aud former article 10
scarce. In ceuutry like Turkey, however,
where the coal measures arc uudeveloped,
and steam fuel has to be imported, the vsL
ue OF large supply Of native petroleum is
Of the highest possible kind.
There are about 1000 -four mills In Ror-
mania, only thirty of which are worked BY
steam, the remainder being worked by wa
ter, wind, horses aud oxen. There are also
1857 diitileries, 60s saw mills, only a few
(of which are worked by steam; 70 breweriss
l45 soap and candle manufactures, besides
oilrmills, etc., most of which require power
10 the different manufacturing processes. -
To such q country the possession of an
abundant supply Of petroleum is obviously
Of the greatest Importance, and ths increase