THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL TRADE. 401 
home consumption during the same year, and averaging the price, say 
at 75 cents, per gallon for refined oil, it represents an additional sum 
of over 19,000,000 dols., besides effecting a saving to the community, 
by its use, in lieu of more expensive fish and lard oils, of not less than 
40,000,000 dols. The exports for the year 1865 will probably not com- 
pare so favourably with the previous year. The quantity received in the 
present year will not equal that of 1864, and will probably hardly sur- 
pass that of 1863. The recent panic among the petroleum stockbrokers 
of New York, the failure of wells in the producing district and other 
causes, have conduced to decrease the receipts of the present year. In 
1864, the receipts, as compared with the preceding year, were as fol- 
lows : — 
1863. 1864. 
Crude ... bbls. 399,341 
Refined 197,490 
Total 
Crude ... bbls. 199,942 
Eefined 220,772 
Total ... ...420,714 
In the same year, 1864, the shipments from Pittsburg eastward by 
Pennsylvania Railroad amounted to 945,781 barrels. The shipments 
east and west for the ten months of the same year reached 588,202 bar- 
rels. The shipments of November and December (the last two months 
of the year) were unusually large and would add, perhaps, 100,000 bar- 
rels to the total. This would give, in round numbers, a total of 800,000 
barrels as the shipments of the year. 
The receipts of petroleum at Pittsburgh, by the river, for the eleven 
months of 1854, were 208,749 barrels, in addition to 189,870 barrels re- 
ceived by the Alleghany Valley railroad from February 1 to December 1, 
and 78,320 barrels received in the bulk-boats and measured outside the 
city limits, thus making a total of 476,939 barrels. The total receipts 
at Pittsburgh for each of the last six years have been as follows : — 
Barrels. 
Barrels. 
1859 ... 
1860 ... 
1861 ... 
7,037 
... 17,161 
... 94,102 
1862 
1863 ... 
1864 ... 
... 171,774 
... 175,181 
... 476,939 
It is not possible at the present time to give a correct exhibit of 
either the receipts or exports of petroleum for 1865. The former pro- 
bably fall short of the exhibits of both 1863 and 1864. 
The stocks on hand at the beginning of the present year are small as 
compared with 1863, probably owing more than anything else to the fact 
that, although the product has considerably increased, the demand for 
export and consumption has been enhanced in a still greater ratio. The 
following was a statement of the stock on hand in New York, January 1 
1865, and will show the closeness of the demand to the available 
supply :— 
