NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AMERICAN PETROLEUM USED IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. 
The United States lights the 
world. In one hundred countries, 
colonies and islands, scattered in 
every grand division and in every 
climatic section of the world Am- 
erican kerosene supplies light, while 
in more than eighty countries the 
products of our mineral oils are used 
in generating power or for lubrica- 
tion of machinery there in operation. 
About 1,000 million gallons of Ameri- 
ean kerosene pass out of the coun- 
try annually, to be used chiefly in 
lighting homes and places of busi- 
ness, and the value of all classes of 
mineral oil sent out of the country 
approximates 100 million dollars a 
year. 
The United States now produces 
two-thirds of the world’s supply of 
petroleum, the quantity produced in 
the year just ended having been 
according to a statement recently is-. 
sued by the Geological Survey, over 
200 million barrels of crude oil, or 
more than 8 billion gallons. Just what 
quantity of refined oil is produced 
from this more than 8 billion gallons 
of crude oil produced in 1910 cannot 
now be stated, but the Bureau of 
Statistics of the Department of 
Commerce and Labor shows exports 
of practically a billion gallons a 
year of the refined illuminating oil, 
and approximately 114 billion gal- 
lons of oil of all classes, including in 
this term illuminating oil, lubricat- 
ing oil, napthas, and certain quanti- 
ties in the crude or unrefined state. 
What is the value of this more 
than 8 billion gallons of mineral oil 
produced in the United States last 
year? Probably 175 million dollars, . 
though this is necessarily an esti- 
mate. What is the value of the fin- 
ished article, the illuminating oil, 
the napthas, the gasolene, the lubri- 
eating oil, the paraffin and other 
grades manufactured from this raw 
product? This can only be estimat- 
ed, though the Census of 1905 shows 
the value of the products of “‘petro- 
leum refining’’ in 1904 to be 175 
million dollars. What is the value 
of the mineral oil exported? The 
Bureau of Statistics shows that the | 
total value of the mineral oil: ex- 
ported in 1904 was 80 million dol- 
lars, and in 1908 was 109 million, of | 
which 76 million was illuminating 
oil; 19 millon lubricating oil; 414 
million napthas, and other lighter 
products of dstillation; 6144 million 
dollars crude oil and about 3 million 
dollars residium. In 1909 and 1910 
the value of the exports was slightly 
less than in 1908, due chiefly to a 
fall in export prices, though the 
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to rar ere 
in “1910. Ww ee as w with 1908. 
What becomes of this billion and 
a half gallons of our petroleum pass- 
ing out of the country? It goes, as 
already indicated, to a hundred dif- 
ferent countries, colonies nd islands. 
Seareely' a country in the world can 
be named to whom it is not sent. 
Even Russia, which was for ,years 
our chief rival in the world’s petro- 
leum markets, now takes considera- 
ble quantities of American lubricat- 
ing oil made from - petroleum, and 
her Asiatic possessions take also cer- 
tain quantities of our illuminating 
oil. The largest customer for our 
illuminating oil is England, to which 
the exports of 1910 amounted to 
about 180 million gallons, valued at 
more than 8 million. dollars. . Ger- 
many ranks second, the quantity 
sent to that country mm 1910 being 
about 108 million gallons; to Nether- 
lands about '100.. million gallons; 
China about 80 million; Japan about - 
45 million; and even British India 
about 32 million gallons. .In fact 
practically every. country, in the 
world receives. greater or_less quan- 
tities of our petroleum. 
countries to which it is sent includes 
Greenland, Iceland,.Malta, and other 
of the Mediterranean islands. the 
Azores and Madeira Islands, Turkey 
in Europe and Asia,. Egypt,. Siam, 
Korea, Hongkong, the Straits Settle- 
ments, Dutch East. Indies, French 
East. Indies; French, ‘German, 
British, Oceania ; 
lands, Madagascar; Italian, German, 
French, Portuguese, British, and 
Spanish Africa; British Danish, and 
West. Indies; IHaiti, Santo 
Domingo, . the . Central ‘American 
States, ‘and every country of South 
Ameriod. 
The list of , 
and | 
the Philippine Is-. 
11 
McKinley Day Observed by Man- 
chester W. R. C. 
(Inadvertently omitted last week) 
MeKinley Day was fit tingly ob- 
served by Allen Relief corps 119 of 
Manchester after its Pilar meet- 
ing last evening, when Allen Post 
67, GAR, and Associates and mem- 
bers. of the S. of V. were guests. 
President Mrs. Williams Follett 
presided, and the following interest- 
ing program was presented under 
the direction of the patriotic instruc- 
tor Mrs. Alfred E. Hersey: Remarks, 
McKinley in War, by Comrade Al- 
fred S. Jewett, who gave something 
of McKinley’s war record, showing 
the kind of work the late president 
was engaged in during the war. Me- 
Kinley in Peace was the subject of 
an excellent paper by Supt. J. C. 
Mackin. This was followed by a 
selection by a quartet composed of 
Mrs. F. G. Cheever, Mrs. A. E. Her- 
sey, A. L. Saben and F. J.- Merrill, 
“Lead Kindly*® Light’’. Memorial 
tributes were read by members of 
the Corps from the Presidents of 
Chicago, Michigan and Yale Univer- 
sities, Chauncey M. Depew and John 
W. Griggs, former Attorney-Gener- 
al. The gathering joined in singing 
‘“‘Nearer My God to Thee’’, after 
which Mrs. Follett read a well pre- 
pared paper’ on McKinley’s _ last 
days. The program was brought to 
a close by the quartet singing ‘‘Some 
Time We’ll Understand’’. The en- 
tertainment committee served a col- 
lation consisting of assorted cake 
and hot chocolate as a closing fea- 
ture of the evening. 
Those who attended the exercises 
were inspired by this form of tribute 
to our late assassinated President. 
What ever may be the straits of 
the hog he always has a spare rib or 
two. 
Highland Nursery 
aie 000 ft. relevation in the Parone Mts.) 
The Latglat collection of Hardy Bereican Plants 
in the World. 
“At my SALEM BRANCH NURSERY, on the Marblehead Road 
(visitors welcome), I have Specimen Rhododendrons, 
Kalmias, An- 
dromedas, Azaleas, Leucothces, and ‘Conifers, for quick delivery in 
New England. 
Fall planting gives splendid results. 
dendrons are the best and only absolutely hardy ones. 
Our tried native Rhodo- 
A .beautifui 
illustrated catalog tells how to grow these things successfully. 
Telephone Salem: 820 
Telephone or write. 
HARLAN P. KELSEY, Owner, 
Empire Theatre Bldg., 
SALEM, MASS 
