Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — The Coining Oil Age. [ARTICLE]

The Coining Oil Age.

Bos'on Transcript. The English are felicitating themselves upon the possession of oil fields which will throw the Pennsylvania oil wells literally into the shade. As Mr. Charles Marvin, a British authority on tnis subject, expressed it in a recent lecture before the Royal Engineers, “Thanks to the Burmese oil fields, we are is aposition to light all Asia and fuel all Ajsia; and in Canada we have a petroleum supply sufficient to illuminate all America when the United States wells run dry.” The Burmese oil wel s; like the Russion wells (Russia produced 200,000,000 gallons of kerosene in 1887) yields a heavy oil and will not burn in ordinary lamps made for the lighter American oil. Not much is known about the quality of the oil produced in the new Canadian fields of the Athabasca and the River Mackenzie. Both of the Burmese and the Athabasca fields, whatever their eventual productions may amount to, evidently win not very soon come into competition with the Standard Oil (Company, as they are quite remote from means of communication. One point advanced by Mr. Maron in a recent pamphlet is interesting. He says that in London gas is giving piace to oil in ordinary lighting, and quotes the Chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, who tells his directors that petroleum is a more formidable competitor than the electric light. Certain English towns in their public lighting are giving up gas and adopting oil. In general lar&e London hotels and offices electric lights have been replaced by large power petroleum lamps. He predicts that “London will be lit with oil again,” and that Great Britain will be the “boss” of the coming oil age. While the Delaware militia, headedby the Governor of that State, inarched across Forty-second street, during the parade of Tuesday last some impudent urchin in the crowd cried out. “How’s the peach crop, Gov’ner?”—N. Y. World. An old church in Cahokia, 111., that was built in 1684 of cedar logs was torn down a few days ago to make room for a more modern building. There were only two churches in America (at 8L Augustine and Santa Fe) that were older.