The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-13
SCOTCH OIL MINES.
The Cariou. Petroleum Fi..fd ~ w-sl
Calder. HesstImltd.

The Curiou. Petroleum Fis.fd at West
Calder, Scotland.
William F.ndiey. OF West Calder.
Scotland. which Ii the ancient oil
shale region of hat country, has been
making tonr of tho Pennsylvania
petroleum fields during the last few
weeks. and was In New York this
week.
II am more than amazed. sail he,
al what ] have SEEM The petroieum
Of Scotland is mined like coal. aud ai-
though had read If the oil wells Of
America. ] was not prepared for such
a vast difference In the methods of oil
production. The Scotch petrole am 10
not In the fluid state. bit In shale
formation. The extracting of the
products of this shale was for many
years most important industry. anl
is q lie an extensive one yet: but ihe
Almrican oil. both illuminating aud
lubriealing. il nov set down In our
markets cheaper Than the Scotch oil
can be produced. aud how long our
oil pr duction will last Il only ques-
lion of how long national pride will
resist considerations Of ecoaomy.
Abt k7NpAsh btt 5Astfe II 0i3tSAs " u
lies mt a depth of about four hundred
feet beneatlt the snrfac.. The shaIe-
producing regious are all be. wee Z l.
inburgh ami Glasgow. and are known
as the oil fields OF West Calder. They
are very extensive and literally inex-
haustible. That 10 one hope we have
| The fluid oil of This country will uit-
doubieslly becoms exhausted or greai-
ly eursailedi in production some time
| h The future. 1t would not be kind
In me 10 say that hope 81. bur. well.
| / am interested in West Calder
| When your fields cease to pour put
| quantity of oil that enables you To
/ refine IL. export II. and sell il IL Scot
land at a less figure than IL costs us to
exiract the oil from the shales at the
very threshold Of Scotch markets we
/ will come to the front with orr oil
/ mines again. ard know whatever hap
pens they can't be exhausted
When thssoil fields of West Calder
we're being operated 10 full capacity
The shale ref merry there known as tile
/ Addisweil oil works and which cover
twenty-five acres of ground. gave em-
| ploy ment TO over two thousand men.
/ In various parts of the field there were
<Iale crushing works. not unlike your
coaI breakers where the shale Is run
N being taken from the mines 1t 10
| broken up into small pieces, and the
rude oil extracted at the crushers
! What we call crude oil. you would call
ar over here. The refiners take it
in that condition. and from IL extract
Illuminating and lubricating oil. am
/ ,nonia and wax. The latter is called
| parafine in the oil trade OF this conn
! ~. The tar from ton of shale will
| yield fourteen gallons of Illuminating 2
oil. This is subjected 10 four di :
lerent acid Installations each one
much heavier than any the Amer
lean fluid petroleum requires The
result is clear. white hight ash
/ iiiuminant as good as American kero-
sene but four times as expensive IL
the American product simply came in
competition with our illumin ating oil.
I The effect on our trade would not be
/ If much consequences. as in that
| branch of the Scotch oil business Is
not where the profit lies The lubri-
! cant. The ammonia. and the WAX ar
/. the products which make the shait.
lSnines valuable. The American lub bri-
eating oil is cheaper. and those wh.
u.e it say better than any. The lat er
altogether / can't agree with OF
course the American oil does not in
terfere with our ammonia produc $.
| or with our wax trade. but we can {
aFord tq produce Kerosene and lubri-
eating oil to throw away in order Ih4
we nay get at the ammonia and wax
| that the shaIe contains. / am forced
10 say. therefore. to use an Americans
ism. that the Scotch oil business 10
Mt booming at the resent time. IN
| Y Sun