Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-04-28
IA Great Oil Strikel
In the United States

CdlllOIuld 10 loony, OASSpe ANNS
STA, the largest producer of crud
petroleum in the world. It's total
for 1904, according to the official
estimates of the California Petrol
cum Miners Association, was
little more than 2S,O00,000 bar,
rels, more than double
New York and Pennsylvania to-
gether, a little less than Ohio
and Indiana combined and more
than twice as much as that OF
West Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee.
The great marketing and pro-
ducing concerns of the state. the
Standard, the Associated and I'm
ion Oil Companies. estimate that
there is oil discovered already
sufficient to last at least fifty
years, making proper allowance
for the increasing demand. If
present fields should fail there
are others yet to be opened that
have only begin to produce and
some but barely touched.
But it is as a producer of the
heaviest fuel oil that California
has won its great place. Except
Louisiana and Texas none OF the
other states have this oil. On the
Pacific coast there is not a drop
of oil produced outside of Cali
fornia.
There is no real coal in Califor-
mia, and but little west OF the
Rocky mountain region. It's price
is very high. almost prohibltlve
so. in fact. With the discovery
| of fuel oil 1T Los Angeles it rap
idly found it's way into favor.
At Los Angeles oil is in umiver
sal rsn. Within the last few years
the lily has gone ahead by leap:
and bounds. The increase in th'
number of manufacturing plant
has been great. The growth O.
the mileage of the Huntington
electric railways that extend II
most parts of the county, takins
in about two-score Of suburban
towns, cities and seaside resort
and covering hundreds of miles O
track, has been phenomenal. 1t /
still growing with an enOrtaou
field to operate in. The eleetri
light and power companies ar
extending their operations, and il
all this oil is the only fuel used
Besides it's use as fuel oil is use'
for making as. During 1904 tn
IS Angeles Gas Company use'
! 44O 600 barrels of crude in thi
! way.
The STANDARD in California ot
cupies a uniqGe position, wher
it operates as the Pacific Oil Com
! pany. There is no such cinch Oh
} fuel oil as on the refining product
/ 1t goes in it's crude state direct t.
the consumer from the well
There is no costly refining process
! like that by which Rockefeller ha
I been able to grasp the eastern
! fields. Moreover, the Kern rive
8 nroduct cannot be piped as Nj
3 Rockefeller has discovered to hi
81 sorrow, after sinking 100000
s in a line fro,~, Bakersfield, it flow
B about as readily 'i'''"''''
Z winter. \ :
The lighter refining oils in Oal
I fornla are produced chiefly :
5 Newhali, in Los Angeles county
: Coalinga, in Fresno county; SAINT
Maria and Lompoc, in SAINT;
! Maria county. and in Ventura am
; Orange counties. This oil sells 10 Il
a higher price than most OF tn
fuel oil, but the cineh OF the o!
monopoly is greater, al though !
this, too, it has strong 60. mpetl'lo
: in the Union and Puente comPai
les, local corporations bas keu =
large capital and good ia. 'lLi'i1 !
In California there seems 10
no deep-seated open hostilft.
the Standard. There has been
serious talk of hostile leg1slatiC
A bill fo establish state refgt1er