The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-03

with its insatiate demand. for lubri-
cants, while kerosene, though the best
illuminant ever known, was danger
Gus because poor refining left gasoline
that was liable to explode. It is dim
cult nowadays, when the world Ii be-
ing cOmbed for more petroleum TO
make mOr gasoline, to realize that
gasoline was nee = nuisance and a
menace. The internal combustion IN
CINE created the demand for gasoline,
now the primary product Of petro-
leum. The demands of millions Of mo
tor cars increasing constantly, inVen-
ton and chemistry were set at work
by the captains of the industry to
make the barrel Of petroleum turn out
a larger and larger proportion Of gas
oline. This was done by the cracking
process, through which every year now
sees q larger proportion of crude oil
turned into gasoline.
High and Growing Demands
Today well-nigh $500, 900 barrels of
petroleum are required every dAy to
satisfy the demand for motor cars,
tractors, trucks, buses, artificial gas
plants and the innumerable by-prOd.
ucts. Invention is constantly finding
new uses, as enterprise just az con.
stantly finds supplies Of petroD
leum. The wonderful and rather mys
teriOus fluid has revOlutionized social
habits and industrial methods; yet II
is only two-thirds OF a century since
the industry had it's feeble beginning
in the Pennsylvania oil country.
This year the country will use abOu'
$50, ZOO, 900 barrels Of petroleum. The
country will use 7OO,0 900 900 gallons o.
gasoline and will export 100000
more. The production, processing anC
marketing of petroleum is probably
second only to agriculture among
American industries.
|. Roundly, 20 per cent Of the world
petroleum industry Is American. Tel
billions Of capital is invested in tt
half the valuation Of the national rail
road system. It employs just abOu
LOCO, 900 people. The petroleum pip,
line system, ~gridirOning q good sharv
of the country, aggregates about IS
600 miles. Petroleum revolutiOnizel
naval warfare by bringing in the oil
: burning ship; it is fast rev~olutiOnizinI
merchant marines in the same fash
+ ion. Multiplication Of motor cars
along with the special taxation o
their gasoline, has made possible tn
modern highway system.
A True Social Service
Perhaps the most nearly revolution
8 airy result Of brakes modernization c
{ the petroleum industry is 30 be fOun
in the change 1t has brought in Ia
3 life Of rural America. It has carrie
the city to the country, the countr
q to the city. It has, by making poss
BILE the cheap and quick transport,
b ton that everybody nowadays 81
Joys, enabled country and city I
l. know and understand each other q
a they never aid before. II has brougH
social and educational privileges |
country dweIlers that a few decade
ago seemed absolutely denied.
them. On the one hand 1t has q
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b urban areas and the zone Of cOuntI
y estates; on the other. It has enable
the people OF the open country 20 hay
neighb0rs, society, church and scho
privileges, intimate acquaintance.
le It IL a historic fact that the tende
cy toward division OF interest and q
D dersLanding between city and count
II is the most serious internal menace
Re the security Of nations, to the inteGl
be ~ Of society.
~ More than anything else, count
and city need to know and understaI
IL each other and each others pro
Ia. Gems. The easy transportation. q
nj rsady opportunity for association a
he acquaintance that have come wi
the Age Of Petroleum have made p,
o. -sfble, in this favored country a. lea
~ exactly this new intimacy and und'
xel standing