Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-02
THE LIGHT OF ASIA


~ 80. and they worship the
..rom Edwin Arnold has called
r,o, OF the continent IN TINS
"' .. ,f Asia iu the twentieth
e". .r.y want "a material rather
sofntual light and for thAl
,nt' I1aking 20 SYRIAN Inc plaoe
W'' tr Iraw8di between t1i 'ls' ~"
E. SEQ and it is me sit. on tue
A. -.. .r the Burma OH oouil"nS
~, crescent the Oh trusts oi lns W" ,,,,
.-rnre for Asia. our Slill''ll a. -. vi
r, has practically mohoioll1Dn
, Ear.a and "a large paI' on '' ',''i
,.. ID. stations on every wv M M
10 '. . BOB every large city. ne
it- feum companies are tur-
h-- L. Illumination for siberia ana
n's'lN- ...f and south of the Caspian
so. r. dutch East Indies, siam
sea- --. ulrt of china are supplied
an' % u.IJ- of Sumatra ana Borneo.
ns - . .1 Burma the people are
Down H frsm ,he wells along the Ira.
ts ..r They have monopol1cd
Nanl and are pushing their trda'
l.-.r, the millions OF lnala'
.,, .r,NDARD CROWDED OUT.
Co osopIe have crowded the
I'm company out Of their
,t.t ID tried TO come in ana ashG9
,' .-..arrmeuts permission 20 puliu
f4nks at the mouth OF the I'NeI'
~, .... refused. and as result OUT
D.t ra shipped here IN TN cases
- makes 10 too costly In competi'lon
u ~. native product. and IL cannot
F'u' t. tr. machinery of distribu-
'7..r .ls it has in other parts OF the
st All along the west coast or
%. p4.H. the storage tanks OF lht
e..,4ar8 Du company are 10 DC seen.
- .r. among the big features OF
l.r-a mort. and connected with
eve -r..f factories where tin cans
.,,r. and the petroleum is put up
.....,srt over the country The oil
..'...I into tank steamers at san
y ,...., and pumped out into tanks
.t5.b hold tens OF thousands OF par
p, Shanghai. Ticntsin and even az
,5..t,,. on the Yangtse kiang. the
i,ttsr mort being 900 miles In the m
teH6r of China.
H.. .1 tho Ilavad, there are similar
.-ts but they belong to the British
s,.5 ,rs the property Of the Burma otl
,,,,.r, can see al least two score
a. !, from where ! am writing Each
nrk win hold "a million gallons OF on
md altogether they contain supply
-f5,b .ou'd furnish one gallon To every
NAN woman and child I'm the United
statss and leave some 10 spare.
RuRMA's OIL FLEET.
Tho Burma oil company has its own
o,lt inf tank steamers. These have a
rsrl,ity of 100000 gallons each, and are
Intended for shipping petroleum 10
other parts off the world. II has also oil
harees Of a million gallons each for
bringing the crude petroleum down the
Irsvadi from the native oil fields up
country These are situated about 30
miles in the interior, and pipe lines are
mn being laid from them to SYRIAN.
rhe pipes are already as far as Ran
eon. and within n few months they
Mn be running into the rcflneries here.
Al first the pipes were laid on the sur
GAO Of the ground. but they were ar
ftrtcd hy the changes Of temperature.
land are now being buried
AZ EAST INDIAN MONOPOLY.
Burma has the third largest oil trust
IN ;he world The standard comes first
men Russia. and after that Burma. The
oufplt Of the Burmese company Is now
fb5ut 10000. 900 gallons per annum and
ID sells for something like S3,OOo.0oO
This Is only e-e,ghtieth Of the out
had OF the Standard. and the value
EQUALS only ono-thirtieth that Of the
limited states product The oil business
here however as far as modern meth
ods are concerned. Is only In its in
fancy and the possibilities are enor-
inous Il Is just % years since the hrst
on wells we're drilled, although the
feonle had been using oil gathered IN
bther WAYS for "a generation before. II
.nas along back In 1857 that the Ameri-
ban system Of getting oil was intro
fuced. and now the fields are spotted
hath dcrricks Americans have been
Brought 'n 90 superintend the sinking
M the wells. and 20 such men are now
Do employed 40 s. per day.
In the earlier stages Of tho drilling
BIZ oil was found at a depth Of 500 feet
but recent wells have gone down sew
fral thousand feet. and many Of those
bow producing are one or two thou
Band feet deep There are but few
lowing wells and the average capacity
Oar under that of the United states.
N6 have many wells which yield 100
snd more barrels daily. The average
pol DO Burma yields about IA barrels,
fnd many less.
Since the beginning ~ the drilling
fhe production has steadily Increased
ID 1890 70 was only 40OO0 900 gallons.
fght years later it was 20, 600, and
1872 10 rose 90 100000. The follow
Pc year the output was 80 900 900 more,
Pr ln zoos the OH raised approXimated
iome0 gallons. oil Is now found
pn The Islands m the coast Of this
country and new fields are being dis
fvercd 100 the hills of tho Interior So
~ The most of the product comes from
~ parallel ravines. the wells being
flnk along the cliffs on both sides ana
The space between The most Of
~ uII seems TO ne below the margins
q the Hy.noe
fHE WORLDS FIRST OIL TRUST.
p Is strange 20 find that the first
trust of the world was founded I'm
f-a"ay Asia. Tho petroleum busi-
p of Burma has always been mo-
Fp'.y 70 was iu existence long be
hre our Pennsylvania oil was discov-
70, being then In the hands ~ q fam
p Who belonged 10 two villages lo-
poo N Oh" ienanEyang oil country.
pom which most OF the petroleum still
mes Generations ago these families
- taken possession Of the oil fields,
~ had s1 fixed II that no one out
~ their own members could dig for
ld1I'um or own an Oh well. The
.NIe We're known as Yoya, and
'gr chiefs We're called Twinsayo II
.m.F had no descendants 10 could
only i0 the other members Of the
mn.ned families; so that the corpora
N was decidedly close
Too lonangyans had their own rule,
i' iho digging and sale Of the oil
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