The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-05

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-yVttbfn 4 Few weeks Or. David T
-, ~ the United States Bureau Of
A4s,.,.s vrifls announces that mother
r;ddia az science has BEEN solved ans
| 4 nrocess discovereds Tor mann1asz
ft1,rfne crude oil. =
-. T 81 s . rfee4ion oft this proceas Is
t4,.a. ~. es,saf ahsa1Sgar 10 the oil supply
ERECTION s1Sa dse Ts1e an1ps,rt OF oil IN the
At dalds Of the United States nas
beanF caIculat by the geolo gis1ss ape
! / Few genera tons will 50 NICE to. Sc,
lhau4t: the supply Then the Mol :,
win fall back upon manuIacI ".
en- einas. And it is probable that all
of them will be kept running, lof
scfentists believe that oil nay be
cheaply enough to com
Eneta with the product Of the oil wells.
The details Of this process have
not, vet been Disclosed. 1t Is UNI
lderstood, however. that the oil viii
Iswill. be extracted from vegetable
I;aubstances by a method Whtcn VIII
| ton by which the oil within the eartn
was extracted from rotting forests
that grew millions Of years ago.
To Replace Wells
This forecast of a new chapter IN
the oil romance Of the present gem
Grafton. follows on the heels OF. IN
that have revealed great
latent sources OF. oil that Will re-
tiplace the wells OF the present Wnen
ltthey run dry All OF Wn1cn sno ,1l
he good news to a public that has
come to depend SO extensively upon
oil for matters of every day convent
ence and, public veal, II may De
Cited. for instance, that the develop
Isment OF the automobile and the rides
that g. 900. 900 people in the United
States take in those vehicles every
Cay. depend upon the maintenance
of the oil supply. It may De polnteo
out that aeroplanes. which nave pc
come the war scouts OF the word
could not serve their purpose but TOR
gasoline. nor could the submarine
serpants OF the seas go forth and
sting. Nor could the Nevada, the
Oklahoma. the Pennsylvania, the.
I.Canfornia. the Mississippi and the
Idaho, those giant dreadnauGhts OF
lsUncle Sam now under construction.
come into commission. for all are 70
be oil burners. q,
So discovery of a method OF OLE
manufacture promises to be stupen-
;dousIy important. Likewise does the
locating OF an additional supply OF
oil In the crust of the earth. For.
oil wells go dry, and the fields that
produce them are limited.
a New Commodity.
Basic discoveries that affect this
Industry are still to be expected,
because oil is comparatively new
commodity in the world. The CIVIL
war was Just coming to a close when
samuel Kier came down from the
hills Of Pennsylvania with new
idea. There was oil in the region
where Kier lived and his netgh3ors
had been in the habit Of gathering
few gallons of it, and, upon occasion,
taking it to Pittsburg where 1T might
be sold for pittance. This oil had
limited usefulness in the manu-
facture Of medicines.
4 Kier had been trying to burn the
oil for purposes of illumination. Dut
| his wicks smoked odorously and
yery little light was produced He
one day put some panes OF glass
about his fame, and much to his sur
prise it burned differently The
smoke disappeared and the light
lgfvens off greatly increased From
| this discovery grew the lamp calm
lney. and from the lamp chimney
grew the commercial importance OF
VI Il was at about the same time
that Colonel Drake who lived near
Titnsville. Pa. sunk the first OIL
ven. and demonstrated the theory
that this fluid might be found IN