THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY OF CANADA 



The illuminating oil having been prepared is for the 

 most part filled into barrels coated with glue on the inside 

 and painted outside or into car tanks and is then inspected 

 by the Excise officer to see that it is free from dangerous 

 gases, the other qualities of the oil being under very little 

 regulation. 



The crude oil is thus shipped to the consumer in a 

 great many different forms :— gasoline, naphtha, coal oil, 

 lubricating oils, vaseline of various grades, axle grease, 

 paraffin wax and so on. Indeed it is difficult to imagine 

 how the people that lived in the early part of the century 

 were able to get along without these articles which we 

 have now looked upon as necessities. 



