The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-05-28

NIX -ovcries OF epoch ma king
M im pouance one. Il was
announced. viii greatly in-
crease tfe production OF gasoline. the
amour neue-t stated that the other
VIII maAe the United States mdepen-
dent OF ,he rest OF the world in the
F. production 81 materials necessary for
the dye industry ana the manufacture
oi nigh explosive These discoveries
have The double importance OF being
cf the highest interest scientifically
and probably OF the highest value com
mercially
The old method OF refining petro-
ieum VAS to heat up the material in a
still and condense the rapors c-mIng
on Gasoline is ali OF the vapor
which passes on up TO $50 degrees cen.
ugraoe. This vas a simple distilla-
ton process. The experimental y ORR
OF Doctor Rittman has been done at
various ranges " pressure rom up to
nearly 500 pounds per square inch
down o. partial vacuum ana at ranges
- of tcmTerature from 1000 degrees cen
tigrade down 10 the lowest tempera-
ture a. which the apparatus could be
worked
IN his laboratory at Havemeyer hall
AZ Columbia university he has an eX-
per.merfL apparatus which occupies
one end % small room and IT, IS hich
he can make experiments upon any OIL
under any conditions he chooses The
results are carefully tsbulated and the
products produced are analysed. Be
fore carrying out these actual expert
ments. however. the problem was at
lacked from the purely Theoretical
side.
Working from a theoretical stand
point. The expected results were
mapped out and then the experiments
we're tried under the chosen cOndi-
ions in order 70 either verify or dis
prove the Representations. Using this
general method OF procedure. the re-
search vas carried on and the discov-
cry made OF the conditions necessary
10 produce larger yields of gasoline
from petroleum Later we're found the
conditions necessary for the produc-
ton of toluol and benzol from petro-
leum
The consun pton OF gasoline By az
t0mohiles. motor cycles. aeroplanes.
motor boats and the various types Of
interrsl com DgsiiOn engines used for
power bas in reused enormously in the
81
number q motor vehicles shows this.
for. according TO the best estimates.
there were. In 1910. $4,000 such We
hicles. h 19l2 there were 100000.
while At the present time the number
has reached 500. 600 Upon the as
sumption that each motor vehicle uses
ten barrels oi gasoline per year. the
demand from this source alone would
be 3 100000 barrels 81 AZ gallons each
The gasoline exported and that used
for other purposes makes our annual
CONSUMPTION reach a total OF about
$4,000 600 gallons. which is the pres
ent production
The supply has not been increasing
as fast as the demand. however. and
even now II would be- inadequate we're
il not for the fact that in the last three
Years many new processes have been
patented for increasing most OF the
production. These have had no com
nercial value. however. except one.
the Burton process. which Is con
tromed by the STANDARD OIL company.
The situation yhich developed when
this process Nss brought out three
years ago v asln interesting one. The
supply Of gasoline vas 50 nearly ex-
ceeded b. the demand that the situa-
non was very crit cat and the price
was nigh There PAS a real gasoline
problem. d seemed impossible 10
meet the increasing demand with an
adequate supply
Benzol vas also put forward as a
substitute Il was found possible &c
use this material Tor motor vehicles
in Europe 20 certain extent by EN-
ploying special carburetors. although
II was not entirely satisfactory.
After all. nothing vas really able e
take the place OF gasoline in being en-
tirely satisfactory. nor was there ar
adequate supply of any other material
u vas at this time that the STANDARD
OH company solved the gasoline
problem" by utilizing the Burton proc
ess. which gave prospect OF an album
dance % gasoline FOR some years a
least.
However. the independent rein
ers. who we're prevented by tn
patents IRON using this superior meth
I'd Of distilling their crude oil. couI
not materially increase their outpu