The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
People in all Walks of Life Pay
Tribute to Standard
Oil Company.
Ingenuity of Chemists is What
Has Made John D. Rookie
Teller So Rich.

secondary processes almost without
number. The people chew one of the
products Of petroleum as chewing gum.
The children eat one Of the products
of petroleum in wax candy. The use OF
vaseline and other cosmetics are con-
tributing to the profit of the refiner.
The farmer, when he greases the axles
of his wagon, consumes one of the by
products of oil, and the fireman when
he shovels the coke into the furnace
also helps the game along. The drug
gist, when he fills a prescription for
castor oil, is making a fond parent pay
somethink toward the construction of
the refineries in Kansas and the East
and the pipe line to Whiting. The
housewife bending over a stove pre-
pairing the monday meal, turning up
the gasoline flame, uncOnsciously add
! to the wealth of the men who exact the
fuel from the crude oil. Not a wheel
that turns in the country, whether it
be the giant flywheel Of the great fac
tory or the tiny wheel on a watch, but
earns something for the man who re-
fines petroleum.
OF finished naphthas, gasolines, BEN
zines and gas naphthas there are for
ty-six grades. This Is the first grade
of the refined product and comes first
out Of the oil. The next stage is that
Of the water whites, prime whites and
standard whites. There are ia grades
of these. or the water whites there
are thirty-three grades and forty-one
grades Of the snow whites. These are
regulated greatly by the degrees Of the
A1;, H.
grade and the rest running down to
the low grade of export oil, which is
10 degree test. Some of the grades
of water whites and snow whites are
SO closely allied that there is scarcely
any perceptible difference between
them. Some of the refiners also have
pursued a policy of giving different
names to the same oil in different
parts of the country to build up local
! sentiment for the product, and this
tends to confuse the proper graduation
of the product.
2,096 By-Products Are Made.
The two stages just mentioned are
the big percentage in the oil business
| in the matter of volume and profit.
t, The residums come next, the first
! grade being the gas and fuel oils and
OF those there are five varieties. the
first being used largely in the manu-
facture of water gas. Then comes the
residuum with the big list of products.
From the paraffin oils and; compound
ed oil 1888 things are made. Here is
where the youngster who has eaten
; too much candy gets the castor oil to
! make him we'll again. Here is also
where the druggist gets his oils which
go into the making Of many medicines.
The next stage is the wax stage, and
here is where the girls get their chew
! ing gum and the children get the can
dy. It is rather reversal of the u.s.
ual order of things that the cure is
made before the cause of the disease
has been manufactured. Of the wakes
there are twenty-six different kinds.
KEROSENE is not the only light-fur-
nishing agency made from crude oil.
The refiner has driven the d-fashion-
ed tallow candle out of business.
Nearly all of the candles used in the
United States and other parts of the
| world are made directly from the pa
raffin extracted from crude OIL Mil
lions and millions a year are manufac-
| tured by every refiner with large capa-
city. And this very profitable branch
of the trade. OF the candles there are
twenty EIGHT different kinds, ranging
from the hand decorated crystalized
taper for the front parlor to the cheap
four for nickel kind. There are 10S
varieties Of greases. There is cup
grease for the locomotive, axle grease
of several grades for the farmer, gear
grease for tn engine man, curve grease
to keep the street cars, when they turn
the sharp corners Of the boulevards.
from flattening the flanges, and many
other kinds for many other purposes.
Coke and Pitch Products.
| The last stage of the crude in an
oil refinery is the coke and pitch pro-
duction. There are four grades here,
all for fuel purposes. When this stage
is reached there is left Of the original
crude less than 2 per cent representing
waste Indeed, it is asserted by some
refiners that the business has got to
such point that the actual waste is
less than / per cent.
In the lubricating works the first
three stages of the refinery are dupli-
Gated, the products being finished
naphthas, gasolines, gas naphthas
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standard whites, gas oils and fuel oils
and the number of by-products the
same. Then comes the spindle oils.
wool stock and compounded oils, Of
which there are 633 kinds, for use in
factories, all over the world whether
to turn the wheels of a factory or a.
sewing machine. And in this connec-
ton refiner once remarked that ev-
cry time a woman pressed the pedal
of machine to sew a stitch in her
husbands shirt she made money for
him, or whenever boy pressed the
can to grease the sprocket of a bicycle
ne was contributing something to Mr..
Rockefeller.
Cylinder oils, filtered oils and COM
pounded oils furnish nearly seventy
products to the lubricating works.
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