The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-12

upon which l wrote few particulars about
myself ami Fery plaIu plump question or
t~o.
Yes. Mr.. Rockefeller was in. and would
be seated. 81 n handsome y 'ung man
ap 2 ired with the reply, when was:
~ ou can state officially "a coming from
the STANDARD Oil Company that no Ohio oil
has ever been blended with Pennsylvania
OIL"
Livingston Roe. broker, a modest way Of
put ing it, IS popularity supposed % have the
closest OF relations WITT the STANDARD COM
pany, and, IN fact, 'tO make the price Of
refined oil daily FOR the world He denied
kno wing anytni e about this mixing bust
ness; perhaps l ha better inquire Of 'sthosa
people out west but. STAY, perh APPS Jon 4
e. Smith o. the E npire Oil Compa ~
would know. Yes, BY all means, see S NTH.
Smith was cut for tie day. j. II. Le-
cour, secretary of tie De Voc Manufact-
uriny Company. had heard Of charges of
mixing the two oils, but doubled them:
thought his onpany would have found it
out had 1t taken place. John Bushnell,
secretary OF the National Transit Company,
after consultation was willing to state that
stocks of Ohio oil amount to about l5.IOO.-
OJO barrels. He knew nothing of any mix
ing of oils as alleged, and thought he would
II II had taken place, as his company is Gus
todlan OF the bulk Of Pennsylvania petro-
leum stocks of oil
After having exhausted such estimable
sources of information as the ab)ve-aud
there are none better on the subject of
petrJleum-it occurred to me that might
do some lnves igating on my own account
and confess to some astonisnment at learn
ing OF refinery at Toledo. where "thou-
sands a1d tens Of thousands of trrels of
refined oil have been turned out, =
equal 70 and some grades superior to the
average Pennsylvania distillant.n That this
is fact there is no question, and there is
some reason for believing that gentle
mel interested therein are identified with
Standard Oil Company interests. The
statement is also made that even if it shout
lake three barrels of Ohio oil to make as
much refined as one barrel Of Pennsylvania
crude viii make, the cost of the Ohio crude
is 50 low that there is 5 i'll a large margin
In favor Of the Ohio article. But the claim
referred to Is by no means certain.
The fact of most significance is that Ohio
OIL can be and is being refined equal to that
from pennsylvania. 1t is no more than
natural for the Standard controlling as 1t
does the Ohio field to permit this fact to
remain unheralded and unknown as long as
possible. Busine S is business. 49,
80 that if we take into account statistics
OF the Russian, the Pennsylvania, and the
ONO fields, we may find something which
Will explain, in view of the above, that
which was so mysterious to the young
broker on the Consolidated exchange.
Russia is pushing its product in the United
Kingdom, in Germany, in Turkey, III Asia
Minor, and the far east, and, OF course, has
monopoly in Russia. It's oil fields have
hardly been tested as to actual capacity vet,
SO productive are those which have been
worked In part. Other of its fields have
never been exploited. The worlds Stats
teal position of petroleum, then, regarding
the Ohio field as probable factor, is as
follows: