Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-06-12
Uncle Sam Importing
.Mexico's Crude Oils
on Increased Ratios

NEW YORK, June il.-Petroleum
Imports into the United States w INV
flscul year which ends with this month
win he nearly twice that II any earlier
year. no,wiihstandin the enormous pf"
,iuc,lon of our avn oil fields, The to,a
quantity of petroleum impaired ~ IN
fiscal year 1921 into this country, whicf
itself pruluc.s twothirds of the oil u
IN. world. viii b. nearly 6,oVo,ooo,""
gallons against about 5000 ,ooo,ooo W
1920. approximately 1000 ,Oov,uoo III
1919. ON. and one. half billion In lvis'
and i,OO0, 00o. 900 In 1917.
The rapid growth of impor,s II pc
,roleum into n country which produces
more than twothirds Of the mineral OIL
Il the world, says u statement by the
National city bank of New YORK, ".
Illustrates the growing disposition OF
world Industries and commerce TO move
the natural products to points having
best facilities for transforming them IN
To condition Tor the use 81 man. Prior
tn 1912. this country with production
and therefore refining facilities three
times as great as that ~ any other coun
Try In the world imported icss than TO-
900 .ooo gallons of petroleum per an
mum from other countries, then, In 1919,
with the development ~ production IN
Mexico of crude petroleum which an
nually moved Ia the nearest trade cen
ter In which Il could h. put into mar
ketablc form and thence distributed IL
the consuming world. We imported
chiefly from Mexico. 10000. 600 gallons
las against an average ~ 10000. 600 .al
Ions year prior to that time. In
lisis our imports jumped from 10000.
oo0 gallons To 800. ooc. 600 gallons OF
crude oil. In 1914 775.ooO.00o. In isi'
$40. Oeo. 600. In 1917 they passed the bill
lion gallon line. and were one and one
third billions In 1918. nearly two hi
lions In - over two and two.,hirds IL
1890. and In the fiscal year 1891 vii
approximate four and threc.fourths bil
ion gallons. and probably touch thu
five billion gallon line by the end o.
the current calendar year.
These figures relate tn crude oil I'm
ported. hut meantime there has been ,
propor,ionatc growth In importation q
the manufactured article, the tota
quantity ~ refined petroleum In al
forms imported having grown from a.,
400 600 gallons In 1919 10 $4,000 600 Il
1890. and viii approximate isSooc.0o
gallons IN the fiscal year which end
with this month. Most II this cnormou
importation comes II course from Men
lco. az the crude oil imported In tn
ten months of this fiscal year for whicl
figures are now available s.1si 900. 90
gallons came from Mexico and less thai
half million gallons from all othe
from Mexico comes by tank steamer
countries.
Practically all of the oil importe
he quantity imported by rail bcin
extremely small. About onrthird q
he crude petroleum entering the Unite
states from Mexico enters at the gul
oor,s ~ Galveston. Sabine. and Ne,
orleans. while mos, 81 the remainin
wo.thirds passes through the Gu
nor,hward to Baltimore. Philadelphia
md New York, The latest availabl
, igures ~ the importation by ports M
, hose of the calendar year 1919, an
show $4,000 600 gallons entering at N
rort ~ New York. sos 200 600 at Hal,
I more, is6.ooo.o 600 at Philadelphia. sso
700. 600 nj New orleans. and Galvcsto
and Sabine about sooooo,oo gallor
each.
, The value ~ the PETROLEUM import,
= into the United States In the currcl
|. calendar year win be- nearly tioo. 90,
900. the figures for the fiscal year "a
n woSimatins ssc,ooo, cco as against 81
. ,,p.eon In the fiscal year 1899. tss .oo'
a no IN 1919. and sss 900 900 In 1918.