The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-28
In the Production Of Oil But
VIII Come Up Again
Next Year.

place in the production of petroleum,
according to statement from the
Geological Survey which has just
been made public. The loss of posi-
ton among the leading states does
not come SO much from decrease
lin the production of oil in West
Virginia as from the increasing
production OF the far western states
and in Louisiana. According to the
Geological Survey the rank of states
in the matter of oil production is as
follows: California, Oklahoma, dlli-
nos, Louisiana, West Virginia, Tex
as, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Thus it
win be seen that West Virginia has
passed Pennsylvania, which for
many years was the leading oil pro-
ducing state in the country.
Since the beginning of the oil IL
Idustry in the United STATES. accord
ing to the statement issued by the
theological Survey, more than two
and half billion barrels have been
produced and the total value of the
oil, reckoned in the crudest condl-
ton at the mouth of the well, is over
1.-TWO billion dollars. More than half
OF this oil. has come from New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio, and all has been produced in
two years over half century. In
/ the first half of this period nearly
j the entire product came from the
eastern fields, but lately the -deClin.
ing production of the eastern states
has been more than compensated by
the enormous output in the West
SO that of the total product of the
United staes 972,429,SO sos barrel;
have been produced west of the
Mississippi river. and at this time
the Midcontinent and California
fields are the cohtroIrng influence!
lin the oil production of this country
III line is drawn across Ohio sepa.
rating its eastern oil areas from the
Lima area and Lima oils are in.
Guided in the western production
that the West already exceeds the
East in the total produced.
The annual report of The united
States Geologic! Survey on the pro;
l d',cssiiun of petroleum, complied by
David t. Day, shows that for 1911
California not only led in quantity
of product lover $4,000, 900 barrels)
but produced almost half as much as
much again as Oklahoma, the state
second in rank. The Mld-continent
field omitted, California produced as
much oil as the rest of the United
States put together; the United
States being omitted, California pro-
duced more oil than any entire ma
tion; and if Russia and the United
States are omitted, California far
surpassed the combined production
of all the rest of the world, including
Mexico, India, Roumania, Galtcia, ia
pan and South America.
The rank of the states is easily
remembered when one recognizes
California, Oklahoma and Illinois
as forming a class by themselves.
the lowest, Illinois, producing over
SO.OOO.OOO barrels and the three
furnishing three-fourths of the en-.
tire output. The. second group in.
cludes louisiana, West Virginia
Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, in
which Louisiana furnished sur.
prise by. yielding the greatest prod.
uct on record for that state lover
100000 barrels), and passing to
the head of this group, while the
slight gain from two pools IN Texas
put that state in advance of Ohio
again. In the third group, compris-
ing Indiana, Kansas, New York, Ken
lucky, Colorado. Wyoming, Utah,
and Michigan the largest state pro
duction is less than a fourth of the
lowest in the second group. and COM
bined these states produced less than
90 per cent of the total.
The changes which may be ex-
pected in 1912 may advance the rank
of West Virginia by the development
of the Blue Creek pool, Kansas may
change places with Indiana, and
Wyoming may head the third
group.
The most important feature de-
veloped by the oil industry of 1911
has been the realization of supply
of fuel oil large enough to be reck.
oned on as a national asset iif<the
production of power. During 1910
arguments became convincing that
fuel oil was sufficiently plentiful on
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