The herald., 1895-01-01

using nenriy 200 barrels per day, nnd tho
Puente Oil Co. are now laying q pipe
line Is miles to the Chino beet sugar
factory whose annual consum ption OF
petroleum is over 10000 barrels.
OF ANCIENT HISTORY.
The use of petroleum in one or other
of its varied forms as fuel is traceabls to
the remotest antiquity. Its combusti-
BILE nature with it's heat producing and
light bearing properties very early at
tracted the notice OF even the most BAR
barous nations. Its scientific adoption
to numerous practical uses belongs to
modern times. Numerous experiments
have been mads in Europe and this
country and its adaptability as fuel and
The sollowing general results may be re.
lied on:
l. That the calorific power of petrol
cum for the purposes of generating
steam end the evaporation OF water is
several times greater than that of ordi-
nary coal.
2. That where the price OF petroleum
does not greatly exceed that of coal, the
former will surely be selected for all
ordinary purposes of fuel both for the
generation of steam and for furnacs op,
erations, especially when any high de-
gree OF heat is essential.
3. That Illuminating gas OF q quality
far superior to that of coal can be made
from petroleum.
LOS ANGELES POSITION,
The advantageous position which Loa
Angeles occupies, nestled at the foot OF
great range of mountains, with en- upri-
vailed climate, great stretches of the fn-
est and most prolific land in the world
around her, the Pacific ocean within easy
reach and with this unlimited and mex
haustible supply of liquid fuel at her
very doora, her future az one of the
great cities of the world is assured. Fac
tories aud industrial enterp prisee OF every
character will give em mploy ment TO thou
sands OF men aud many raiiroade, reach
ing to all parts OF the country. will CEN
ter here. The completion of the Mica
ragua canal and the harbor at San Pedro
will give us cheap and easy communica-
tion with the outside world. go that the
facilities for marketing our products and
manufactures will BIS unrivaled.
THE OIL WELLS OF THE WORLD.
In connection with this article it will
probably be interesting to many OF your
readers to hear OF some of the great oil
wells of the world and their wonderful
yield. We have no wells like them in
magnitude in California, but some for
tunste driler may yet "drop his drilling
tools into crevics" and sstonish the
world with great California gusher.
In Canada the Shaw well. at depth
of l5S feet, yielded 5000 barrels per day.
and the McLane we'll, at depth of 100
feet. over 5000 barrels.
On Oil creek in Pennsylania the
Phillips we'll gushed forth with a stream
OF 5000 barrels per day, and tho Noble
Delamater we'll flowed over 5000
barrels per day. II com meuced to flow
in 1858 and continued to flow till 1865,
and is estimated to have produced up-
wards OF SO 600. 900 worth of oil. 1t was
within the boundary of Butler county,
Pennsylvania, that in the month OF
October, 1884, the largest flowing we'll
ever opened in this country gushed
forth its treasured wealth at the rate of
10000 barrels per day. But it is ct
Bakur. in Russia, that the greatest
producing wells in the world have been
drilled. and the statement concerning
the enormous yield from some OF the
wells OF this district may we'll challenge
our oredulity.
The following graphic description OF
the bursting forth OF the great
"Droogba" fountain is from an eye
witness and is given in Mr.. Marvin's
own words, written in 1861: ''Iu Amer
ica there are over $1,000 drilled petro-
leum wells. Baku possesses 400, but .