Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — The Petroleum Fields of the World. [ARTICLE]

The Petroleum Fields of the World.

Nearly all the petroleum that goes into the World’s commerce is produced in a district of country about 150 miles long, with a varying* breadth of from one to twenty miles, lying mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, but lappingover a Ijttle on its northern edge into the State of New York. This region yieldbed in 1881, 26,950,813 barrels, and in 1882, 31,398;750 barrels. A little petroleum is obtained in West Virginia, a little at various isolated points in Ohio, and a little in the Canadian province of Ontario. There is also a small field in Germany, a larger one, scantily developed in Southern Russia, and one still larger, perhaps, in India. The total production of all the fields, outside of the region here described, is but a small fraction in the general account, however, and has scarcely an appreciable influence upon the market. Furthermore, the oil of these minor fields, whether in America or the Old World, is of an inferior quality, and so long as the great Pennsylvania reservoir holds out, can only supply a local demand in the vicinity of the wells.— The Century.

Colp lead makes cold Indians; cold Indians are good Indians. As a missionary agent, cold lead beats the world.