The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-12
MINERAL OIL EXPORT
FROM UNITED STATES
Aggregate for 1918 Fiscal Year Was
Sl37,ooo,ooo, According to Depart
ment of Commerce Figures.

/
ing to the official figures of the bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce, de-
partment of commerce, mineral oil ex-
ported in the fiscal year 1913 aggregated
S137 100000 value against $67 100000 in
1908, having increased l04 per cent in
the value of the expectations during
the decade. The quantity exported was
nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons, or, to be ex-
act, l,99O,000,0O0 gallons against 964,-
0o0,000 decade ago, having increased
LOG per cent during the decade. The
quantity exported in tia crude state is
slightly less in 1913 than in 1912, but
shows gain of Do per cent over 1908,
while illuminating oil, lubricating oil
and naphthas and other lighter products,
including gasoline, show large gains. II
Eliminating oil increased from 700, 1000
600 gallons in 1903 to l049,000,000 in
1913; lubricating oil, from 93,000,000
gallons in 1903 to 2I4,000,000 in 1913;
and naphthas and other lighter products
of distillation, from 100000 gallons in
1908 to 183,000,000. in 1913. Exporta-
tion of crude oil increased As per cent
in the decades that of Illuminating oil,
so per cent; lubricating oil, 1870 per
cent; while naphthas and other lighter
forms Including gasoline) show as a
group an increase of 300 per cent in
the decade. Gasoline only began to be
separately shown in 1918, the total for
the year being 100000 gallons, valued
at about 81 100000. Another new fea-
ture in the 1913 figures is gas oil and
fuel oil" which amounted to 800, 100000
gallons, valued at over SS,000000
naoy,;f. foa la+ T.,.1 l.
is by far the largest world producer and
exporter of mineral oils, there are con-
siderable quantities imported. The guam
tity imported in 1913 was 530000000
gallons, against l8l 100000 in 1912, &c..
100000 in 1911, and 100000 in 1910.
This Importation, which has grown so
rapidly in recent years, is crude oil, and
comes chiefly from Mexico, with com
paratively small quantities from Peru,
Trinidad and Dutch East Indies, the re-
filming facilities of those countries being
less satisfactory than those of the United |
States. Practically all of the oil enter
ing the United States, including that |
from Mexico, comes by tank steamers,
less than one per cent Of the oil inn |
ported from Mexico having entered |
through the Mexican border ports
Mineral oil has now been a factor in |
the export trade of the United States
for full half century, the first stats
teal record of its exports being for |
the year 1862, when the value of the |
exports, including both those of crude |
and refined, was about Sl500000. BY |
1872, the figure had reached S344,000000; |
in 1882, S5I ,000,0 900; in 1892, S45 900 600; |
in 1902, S72,000,000; in 1912, Sll2O00,-
900; and in 1913, as already indicated,
$l37 100000. The total value of the
mineral oil exported in the half century
since the export movement began is
about $4,000 100000. More than nine
tenths of the expectation goes in the
refined form.
The worlds greatest production of II
petroleum Appropriated l5000000.000
gallons in 1911, against 9,000,000,000 in
1904, and 6.000,OO0,000 in 1906; and of
this grand total of approximately l5,-
900 ,00o0 900 gallons in 1911, the United
States produced about two thirds, against
less than one-half the worlds production
in 1900.
The distribution of refined mineral oil
from the United States is world wide.
The countries, colonies and proteetorates
to which the S66,000,000 worth of illu-
oil was exported in 1913 APP
90 in number, about one
half of the total going to Europe and
one- fourth to Asia. The distribution of
the lubricating oil, of which the exporta
lions in 1918 amounted to S30,000,o00,
vas chiefly to Europe, which took about
three fourths of the total; while of the
rasoline napthas and other lighter prod
icts of distillation exported, valued at
S25, 100000 in 1913, about one-half went
10 EUROPE.