Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-25


'uel i'm these Islands the following eX-
tracts from paper read at a meeung
Of the California Petroleum Miners
Association in San Francisco recently
will be of interest. The report shows
that where about two years and a half
ago there was consumed in San
Francisco less than a thousand barrels
4 year, now there are being actually
consumed over a million barrels for
fuel purposes. Nearly one hundred
and fifty manufacturing establish"
ments are using the new fuel among
them being the electric and cable
street railroads, foundries and factor.
les, electric light and gas companies.
The paper was read and compiled
by DR.. G. T. Deane, the secretary oil
the Miners Association, which has as
its officers and directors the follow.
ing gentlemen: Hon. NJ. II. dc Young,
Gen. J. NJ. Gleaves. Arthur Il. Briggs,
o. A. Lane, DR.. G. 7. Deane, Il. p.
Head, George X. Vending, Edward
A. Denicke, Henry ]. Croker, W. A.
Jacobs and w. b. Simmons.
Mr. President and Gentlemen Of the
California Miners Association: At
the request of the Board of Directors
oil the California Petroleum Miners
Association, | present the following
facts and suggestions on the oil min
ing industry of the State, to your hon.
orable body. In II are included stats.
tics CLEANED from the most reliable
sources upon the subject, which will
demonstrate to you the marvellous de.
velopment which has taken place dur.
ing the last twelve months along the
great oil belt. together with the posi-.
bilities i'm store, from a commercial
standpoint for an industry which al.
ready ranks as one of the most impor.
tapt in the State.
The fact that oil existed in Cali.
fC rnia was established years ago. As
far back as 1856 oil was produced
from wells in Los Angeles and again
later in 1864 the discovery of seep.
age in other counties started an ex'
element which spread all over the
State, but which did not last long. I'm
til recently the movement in the in
dustry has been spasmodic and to a
large extent speculative, little practi
cal work having been done in the
field.
The development of the natural re
sources Of California has been dlivid
ed into epochs, following each other
In rotation. First came the gold, then
agriculture. next the fruit, and finally
we have OIL which seems destined tC
prove the greatest of all. These ep
oChs. opening as they do in sequence
have always proved opportune, arriv
ing invariably at time when the ne
Cessities of the community called fol
some stimulating influence.
do not suppose that any delegate
to this convention can doubt that with
in the course of the next few years the
present annual gold yield of the State
will be more than doubled; that the
copper production now beginning t.
attract the attention Of the world vii
| increase ten-fold, or that with the ait
of the oil.burner smelters will be a
work turning out iron, from the vas
deposits of that metal, which unit
now have been unavailable, through
the lack of cheap fuel.
Oil at 81 a barrel is as cheap as Goa
at $3.50 a ton. 1t does not requir,
the eye of a prophet to see in tn,
near future the shores of this grea
! bay dotted with factories run by oil
railroads and steamships carrying thC
completed material and the produc,
of the farm and orchard, and the grea
ocean liners vending their way out o.
the Golden Gate, across the broad Pa
cific with oil as fuel.
Development work at differen
points has determined the existenc,
Of a well defined oil belt, stretching
the entire Length of the State, from
Siskiyou to san Diego. 1t has beef
traced beyond our boundaries boil
north and south. From t.lis wide bel
spurs branch out towards the coast, a
instanced by the Summerland wells II
the ocean, and the recent gusher in tn,
northern portion of Santa Barbara
county close to the sea.
The consumption of railroads alon
in the last quarter was over a million
barrels. and all this is only home dc
mand, without taking into considera
ton the exports. The Hawaiian Isl
ands sugar planters have contracts
for 100000 barrels for the comin
year, and that by only six companies
When the means of transportation ar
perfected these Islands alone will TAX
more than double that quantity.
The supply Of oil available is no
represented by any means by the pres
ent monthly yield, the output bein
checked by price and transDortatio