THE TROPICAL AQRiOULTiURIST, 
[April i, 1892. 
732 
THE FUTURE OF THE PETROLEUM 
TRADE. 
The changes and developments in the petroleum 
trade during the last two j'cats have been numeruus. 
What the immediate future will show it is impossible 
at the preseni moment to predict ; but it is evident 
that many surprises are in store tor the trade. All 
who have studied the trade know that the present 
system of the distribution of petroleum is to a large 
extent artificial, and will require very oonsiderabie 
modification. The supply of petroleum for the entire 
world comes from Russia andthe Uastern Htates of 
America. Batouminthe east and Philadelphia in the 
west are the two great distributing centres, and lor 
the present the consumer in China or India must 
draw his supplies of illuminating oil from either 
of these two places. In a few years it is not 
improbable that we shall see a rival of Philadelphia 
established at Vancouver, tapping the practioally 
unworked oil-lielda of North-West Canada. From 
this part all Eastern Asia will be supplied. Another 
rival will be at Callao, in South America, from 
where the equally enormous supplies of oil around 
Lima will be exported to Australia and New 
Z jaiand. The two letter oountries have oil deposits, 
but so far as can be aseertained at present neither 
is likely to supply all that wilt be required for 
tboir for own oousumption. Philadelphia will supply 
its home market, and will oompete with Batoum 
from the trade of Europe, Batoum will be the 
natural distributing centre tor Northern and Western 
Asia and East Africa. The oil industry is as yet 
in its infancy, and great is the future of the trade, 
When those who handle petroleum in this country 
have adapted tbemaelves to the changing condi- 
tions of the trade, and have realized the great 
possibilities of this enormous industry, there will 
in the future be more made out of the trade 
than has been made in the past . — Britiah Mercantile 
Qazette. 
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WHITE SAND PETROLEUM IN CANADA. 
Oil was found last week for the first time in 
a white sand within the Dominion. The new die- 
oovory, which is attracting considerable attention, 
was UiBcoverod by the Provincial Natural Clas and 
Fuel Uompany, in one of its experimental wells 
near this place, which was being drilled ostensibly 
lor gas. The well is not a gusher of the McDonald 
held olasH, but the sensation which it oteales in 
the Boientiho mind is even more profound than 
the disoovory of a gusher in the McDonald held, 
where such are to be expected. The oil is dark 
green in color, 45 gravity and passessoB all tbe 
oharaoteristio leaiutes of Pensylvania oil. It is the 
hrst and only oil found in Canada whioh is free 
from the peculiar taint and malodors of oil pro- 
duced from limestone rooks. This oil is found in 
the Medina at a depth of 750 feet ; it is tbe first 
time in tbe history of the business in which 
the ooeurrenoe of oil in this horizon has 
been noticed by drillers or geologists ; on tbe 
top, and for a oonsiderabie dislanoe through 
it, the rock is a reddish hue, changing to grey to- 
ward tbe bottom; the oil was found in the grey 
sand. It marks a new era in oil development, 
whioh is of interest mainly in tbe Dominion, since 
this rock lies on or very near tbe sutlaoe, at the 
border line between Canada and the United States. 
The atratagraphioal position of the Medina rook 
is very imperfectly understood by oil men on both 
sides of the liue; on this, because in the oil llelds 
proper, tbe wells start, as it were, in the shales 
underlying tbe Medina rook; on tbe other, the 
established oil bearing rooks overile the Medina. 
This discovery is of the greatest importance to 
Canada. The Lima equivalent, whioh is pro- 
duced at Petrolea, eommanda $1-35 a barrel at the 
wells. The same oil iu the States is freely ofleted 
at 80o. Penusylvauia oil, whioh is in universal 
demand hero, is subject to a duty of between 7o and 
8o a gallon. This oil, which is equal to the test Peen- 
sylvauia produet, will oommaud Irora $2 00 to 
60 a barrel at the wells. The credit for this 
diaoovery is due to the intelligent effort of Supt- E. 
Cosle, of the Provinoial Natural Gas Company. 
Mr. Ooste is a graduate of the School of Mines 
and Mining of Paris, a member of the Dominiun 
Geological Staff and one of the brightest and most 
enterprising geologists of Canada. He located tbe 
famous gas ffelds iu this district, and pronounoed 
upon the value of tbe territory before a well had 
been drilled. He said oil would likewise be found 
on one flank or the other ol the gas field, basing 
hia statement on geologioal interfetenoe. This well 
was loosted by him to test the aeouraoy of bis 
theory, but no one had faith in it but tbe professor, 
and his oonfldence never wavered. Some 20 wells 
have been drilled in this district through, and 
beyond the Medina rook without finding oil iu 
this horizon. The gas found in merchantable 
quantities, here oomes from the Trenton rook, 1,700 
leet below tbe Medina. 
The oil well Is located at a considerable distance 
to one side ol the gas wells, and Dr. Coste ven- 
tures the prediction that an oil field of oonsider* 
able area will be found in the vicinity. The first 
well has every outward indioation ol bringing a 
25 bbl produoer.— Gif, Paint and Drug lieporter, 
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Tin; Ckvlon Tea I’eantatioss Co., Lrn., and 
Iekak.— Ah the directors of the Ceylon Tea Plan- 
tatiou Co., Ltd., have resolved not to o.xtend the 
held for their oporatious beyond this island, the 
question now is, what will be done with the 1,000 
acres of land iu Perak chosen by Mr. Talbot on 
behalf of the Company t 
CiSNAMON AS Bnoirr ron Infloenza.— M any pre- 
ventives for the scourge have been suggested, but 
tbe simplest appears lo be that adopted at tbe 
University of Durham. This oonsists of powdered 
cinnamon, whioh has been dispensed to the students 
in small boxos. It is taken in the form ol snuff, 
two pinohas per diem being the regulation allowance. 
—Vhemiit and Bruggiat, 
A GwAtiTio CoBNiBii Oaaiellia Tbee.— P tobably 
there is no exolio tree or shrub in West Cornwall 
with a mote interesting pedigree than the camellia 
at ienalyern, Penzance; and, like so many other 
things with a glorious past, its future is an un- 
known quantity, except in the rapidity of its decay. 
It IS but a wteoh of its former self, and the merest 
imitation of the blizzard ol last Match will com- 
pletely settle it. Half a century ago there were 
Boaroely any oamellia trees in West Cornwall, and 
for a very long period, up to last year, the one 
in question maintained its reputation as being the 
largest in the county. When in full bloom its 
maguifioenoe could not have been excelled by 
any single speoimen in its native oonntry, Japan. 
It reached an altitude of nearly twenty feet, and 
possessed a oiroumferenee of nearly three times its 
height. It was, at its prime, so densely covered 
with fiowers that to photograph it was impossible. 
The young tree was brought about half a century 
ago by the late Mr. T. S. Bolitbo from the gardens 
of his father-in-law, North Cornwall, and the vigour 
with whioh it grew and thrived in the genial locality 
of Penzanoowas little short ol marvellous,— IKBiter a 
Morning JS’eiei, 
