The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-01-24


lis ne 1inef s. 81 FL.
About 900 million Hons q
tdeE kerosene ~ out ~ Tie
country annually % Sc used chiefly
IN llghting homes and places Of
cuisines aad the value 81 IN classes
ot Hiinerai On sent out 81 the coun-
try approx .nates 100 million dol
larS a year.
The United States now produces
aEo7thirds Of the worlds supply Of
petroleun the quantity produced. in
the year Just ended having been, ac-
cording to a statement recently Is
sued by the Geological Survey. over
goo million bagreis o. crude on, or
more than lllion gallons. Just
litn u q geilnet OIL was
Dr9dgeed from this more than 8
billion gallons Of crude ON produced
ins 1910 cannot be stated, but the
Bureau d Statistics Of the Depart
nent Of Commerce and Labor shows
exports of practically a billion gall
Ions a year OF the refined illumlna-
ting oil. lubficating old, naphthas.
+ and certain quantities In the crude
or unreaned state.
What is the value of this more
than 8 billion gallons OF mineral oil
hproduced in the United States last
year? Probably 175 million dollars,
though this is necessarily an esti-
mate. What is the value of the fn-
sished article, the illuminating oil,
the naphthas, the gasolene, the lu-
bricating oil, the parafin and other
grades manufactured from this raw
product This can only be esti-
mated, though the ceasus OF 1905
shows the value of the products OF
petroleum refining" in 1904 to be
l175 million dollars. What is the
value Of the mineral oil exported?
The Bureau of Statistics shows that
the total value Of the mineral oil
exported in 1904 was so million
dollars and in 1908 was 100 mill
lion, of which rs million was illu-
minatlng oil; 10 million lubricating
Oil, AK million naphthas, and other
light products of distillatton; 6A
million dollars crude oil and about 8
million dollars residiuum. IN 1909
and 1910 the value of the exprts was
slightly less than in 1908. due
chiefly to fall in export prices,
though the quantity also showed a
slight decline in 1910 when compar-
ed with 1908.
What becomes Of this billion and
a hall gallons of petroleum passing
out of the country? 1t goes, as al
ready indicated, to a hundred diff
ferent countries, colonies and is
lands. Scarcely a country in the
world can be named to whom IT is
not sent. Even Russia, which was
for years our chief rival in the
worlds petroleum markets, now
takes considerable quantities OF
American lubrlcating oil made from
petroleum, and her Asiat!c posses
sions take also certain quantities Of
Illuminating oil. The largest Gus
toner for our Illuminating oil is
England, to which the exports OF
1910 amounted to about $50 million
gallons, value at more than 8 mil
lion dollars. Germany ranks sec
ond, the quantity sent to that coun-
try in 1910 being about 1O8 million
gallons; to Netherlands about 100
million gallons; China about 80 mil
lion; Japan about As million; ana
even British India about 80 million
gallons. In fact practically every
country in the world receives greater
or less quantities OF our petroleum.
The list OF countries to which 1t is
sent includes Greenland, iceland,
Malta and other of the Mediterra-
mean islands; the Azores and Ma
derfa Islands, Turkey in Europe
and Asia. Egypt, Siam, Korea, Hong
kong. the Straits Settlements, Dutch
East indies, French East indies;
French, German and British ocan-
lea; the Philippine islands; Madas
gas car; Italian, German, French,
Portuguese, British and Spanish At
RIGA; British Danish, and Dutch
West indies; Haiti, santo Domingo,
the Central American states. and
every country OF South America.
Not only is our kerosene popular
lin the homes of all parts of the
world, but American gasolene en-
ported under the general title of
naphtha, is furnishing power for
motor boats, automobiles and flying
machines in various sessions of the
world, while lubricatlng oil exported
goes to more than eighty countries.