Photograph from Hope Natural Gas Company 



THE DEEPEST HOLE IN THE WORLD 



America leads in courage and skill in exploring the earth's crust in the search for oil 

 and gas. The Lake No. i well in West Virginia had reached a depth of 7.589 feet, or 240 

 feet deeper than the deepest well in Europe, when the steel cable parted nearly three-fourths 

 of a mile below the surface. This is the second world record established by the Hope 

 Natural Gas Company, the Goff well being 7,386 feet deep, but neither of these West Vir- 

 ginia wells has yielded anything but facts for the geologist. 



the next five years ? Already the number 

 of tractors in operation is estimated as a 

 third of a million, and they consume 

 about 3^ million gallons of lubricating 

 oil. 



We have, then, a total of fully 200 

 million gallons of lubricating oil already 

 required to keep the automotive equip- 

 ment of our country running smoothly, 

 and we must not shut our eyes to the 

 fact that millions and millions of gallons 

 more will be needed each year. 



HOW OIL SAVES POWER 



The steady growth of industrial 

 America is observed by all, but we need 



the help of census statistics to realize the 

 rate of that growth. The power used in 

 our manufacturing has about doubled in 

 the past sixteen years ; the kilowatt-hours 

 turned out by our public-utility stations 

 have increased eight or nine fold in that 

 same period. Indeed, the single State of 

 New York will use far more electric 

 power this year than the whole country 

 did in 1902. 



And so the demand for lubricants be- 

 comes stronger on the road, on the farm, 

 and in the mill. Still, while we think of 

 this rapid development of power as using 

 increased amounts of oil, it is equally 

 true that oil saves power ; so that if ma- 



