Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — New Oil Fields. [ARTICLE]

New Oil Fields.

Although the production of crude petroleum in America Is making enormous strides every year, the bulk of this comes from new territories which yield heavy oils containing little or no spirit-. In fact, the fields which have In the past supplied the world with petroleum spirit and high-class Illuminating oils are, it is said, falling, so much so that the center of production is no longer In the Eastern States, but lies equally between the Gulf States and California. Recent work in the mid-continen-tal fields shows, however, that there |s a prospect of the supply of high-grade oils being Increased/*—