Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-25
WONDERFUL STRIDES
MADE BY OIL FUEL

facilities. 1t is now certain that dur.
ing the next year at least one pipe
line, ana perhaps two, viii connect
the nern river district with tidewater,
/ ne cost Oh suCn a line is estimated at
$4,000, UUU-nOC az a. a large sum
wnen taking into consideration the
value OF the properties InyOlyed. ono |
hundred millions Is a modest estimate |
OF the oil lands of CamOrnia today, |
not taking mo account the immense |
value OF the Improvements, in the way |
OF wells, machinery, pipe lines, tank |
age. etc.
In regard to the yield Of oil at the |
present time, the Kern rlver field Is
represented by 447 producing wells
averaging sixty barrels u oil per day
each, or 26,S20 barrels per day, or
SOI,600 barrels per month. In the
Sunset district there are fifty wells,
with an average production OF 10000
barrels per month. The yield of the
Coalinga district has an average OF
100000 barrels per month. The Nc
Kittrick output for September was
100000 barrels, which is a fair aver
age. The Los Angeles field has an
average of $4,000 barrels per month,
with tankage for 1000, 900 barrels. Mr.
w. L. Watts estimate for the total
yield for the year is 100000 barrels.
Colonel NJ. NJ. Ogden estimates the to.
tai output of this year as seven and a
half millions.
The transportation companies are
now moving oil from most OF the dis.
tricts as fast as offered. The line
into Sunset is about completed. Mr..
Charles NJ. Hays, until lately Presi.
dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad
wrote me under date OF August 22d
last, that mis- company had then in ser.
vice $40 tank cars of 1856 barrels each
capacity, which would be increased to
600 when those under construction
were completed, which they probably
are by this time.
For the month of September the
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe moved
out of the Kern river, MchIttrick and
Coalinga districts a total of $4,000
barrels of oil.
Next in order to adequate transpor.
tation comes the necessity of tankage
facilities, the construction of which
is most important to producer and
consumer. There is room in San
Francisco for large company of this
kind. and ! understand one is to be
formed in the near future.
The reason the railroads have not
used oil exclusively is the necessity
of erecting tanks along all their lines.
where they now have coal bunkers. In
time when this work is accomplished
the companies will all use oil to the
exclusion of wood and coal.
To-, 40 Ill
VIII also prove a prominent factor
have just received assurances, from
the very highest authority that before
many months have passed there will
be established here a line OF tank
steamers to carry oil, and in addition
to this we are informed that at least
one line of freight steamers from this
port are having their ballast tanks
overhauled and reinforced IN order to
carry oil in any quantity to every port
OF call made by them. THESE tank
steamers will use oil for fuel entirely
and this will undoubtedly be followed
by the introduction OF oil on many
propulsion. II will mean large econ
omy in running expenses.
A 4OO0-ton steamer uses about TWEEN
ty.five to thirty tons of coal day, a
heavy outlay, which will be reduced
by 80 per cent nearly by the introduc
ton of oil. Moreover. 1t does not fol.
low because a vessel uses oil she
|. should not also use coal in case OF
necessity. In a recent experimental
test in the North Sea off the coast oil
England, a steamer running at the
rate of ten knots an hour. changed
while in motion from oil to coal in
| twenty.three minutes, without any in
reference with her Roadway while
making the alteration. Another point
, in the new fuel Is the short space oil
time involved in renewing the sup
ply. While II takes an average al
, two days to coal ship II will only
l require a few hours to take on oil
/. securing more speedy dispatch.
=. Added TO the large quantity of OF
. consumed in manufacturing, the rail
! roads will utilize during the present
I year over 1000 900 barrels of oil Thu
/. Southern Pacific has over 800 loco
0 motives In service. the Santa Fe ovel
Q 200 in this State, and the other rail
roads operating in the State about 100
I a locomotive will use from twenty
. hve to thirty barrels OF oil per da,
Z when in service, so that the demand
. from this source alone is quite an i'm
portant factor in the aynual consump
ton.
During the past year the price of OF
has been controlled, as all commOdi
: ties must be, by supply and demand
The yield so exceeded the consumption
A at the time that the price at the wei
!. fell as low as 20 cents a barrel. Tn,
, necessity OF many Of the companies
who held their lands on leases com
= polling them to pay royalties of from
: IL TO 80 per cent, and also Compellin!
4 them to sink a certain number o
; wells within given time, necessitat
ed the sale OF oil to obtain the neces
= sarv funds with which to continue
work This unfortunate condition o
anairs can only he ascriDed to thu
: first wild rush of thousands OF people
when the boom took place in the OF
/, lands. This, however, is only n TEN
!. porary condition, and the change from
coal to oil for steam purposes is 20
= Ing on as rapidly as business condi
l. tions will warrant.
+ In Los Angeles an association con
L trolls the output OF that field, an,
(, more recently a powerful organization
with capital OF forty millions ha
: been formed to handle the output o
the Kern river and McKittrick dis
= tricts on basis which will prove re-
/ munerative to property owners. A