Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15

pdlibihS oSto iOi III viz val OuS
processes incident to producing,
, refining, transporting and market
ing crude oil and it's manifold
products. The artists brush tells
! the story with startling clearness
and fidelity. Surrounding the
canopy are two pieces OF fine
statuary, figures of woman and
youth. The woman holds a
lamp that the youth may see to
read a scroll in his right hand.
His earnest face and figure indi-
cate thoughtful mechanic. The
aim of the group is to show how
the introduction of Illuminating
oil enables the worker by day to
study at night. The clever con-
ception carries out the idea adj
| mirably.
A glass case showing the host
,, of products derived from ten gal
Ions of Pennsylvania petroleum,
greets the eye at the threshold.
These products include in their
| exact proportions the gasolines,
benzines, water white distillate,
! standard white distillate, prime
white distillate, and the residium.
From the residium are shown np-
merous products such as gas oil,
export gas oil, paraffine distillate
and the coke. Obtained from
the parafine distillate are solar
red oil, red oil, Nos. l and 2,
straw oil, paraffine oil and batch
ing oil. The possibilities OF pc
troleum as the basis Of CONNER
cial products are revelation to
the intelligent observer. That
case embodies the results OF
years of careful, costly expert
menting to discover new uses for
the green fluid Colonel Drake s
shallow well started on its trlum-
phant march in 1859. In this IN
valuable work the Standard has
been the chief factor, spending
labor and money freely to utll-
ize the last spoonful of every bar
rel of crude. 1t may interest
mankind to know that because OF
this benefcent effort year after
year, petroleum heads the list OF
commodities, solid or liquid,
which yield understandable articles.
The whole number exceeds 2OO,
an amazing contrast to the prlm-
tive era when tiny refinerles
emptied one-third of their dlstll-
late into Oil creek, polluting the
atmosphere with deadly fumes
and poisoning every fish that ven
tured within miles of the fatal
outflow. The Standard has piled
I'D wealth, as it deserved to Go
for it's genius and persistence,
and the world has been enriched
an hundredfold in consequence
thereof. The entire fraternity OF
mud singers, from Shimsi and
Ahab down to Tarbell and Law
son. cannot bulge the rock-rlbbed
North American truth.
Six cases are devoted to ma
chine. valve, cylinder, spindle,
parafine and miscellaneous oils,
side by side with crudes and oil
bearing sands from Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas,
California, Colorado, Wyoming
and Alaska. TO practical oil op..
orators, biologists, students OF
economics and people endowed
with brains this feature of the ex-
hibit is particularly instructive
and interesting. Illustrating the
wonderful variety and breadth OF
the petroleum fields and their
output, it furnishes data for a
multitude of significant compar-
sons full of information as a short
cut encyclopedia.
In another case are the petrol
atums-soap stocks, vasellnes, pc
trolites. harness soaps and oils,
plumbers thread-cuttlng OIL,
floor dressing oil and many more.
The surprised looker-on scans the
labels and learns that the high
art of refining petroleum mas
created a wide range of useful
things for human comfort and
convenience. He begins to ap-
preciate the fact that modern