anaheim-gazette 1923-10-18

OIL OUTPUT NOW AT HIGH FIGURE Article in Gas Journal Shows Growth of Industry. John D. Rockefeller is credited with having said that the first $1000 is the hardest to accumulate. He might safely have made the same assertion in regard to the first billion barrels of oil. It took the United States forty-one years and four months to produce its first billion barrels of petroleum, but this country is producing its seventh billion barrels in one year and seven months, says the Times. An interesting discussion of this remarkable feat of petroleum development has just been written by James McIntyre or the Oil and Gas Journal. Following is his comment: Some time in the fall of this year the United States will have produced 7,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum. It took forty-one years and four months to produce the first billion barrels, but about one year and seven months will be consumed in the production of the 7,000,000,000. Beginning with August 27, 1859, and up to December 31, 1900, only 1,003,600,000 barrels of crude oil had been produced in the United States. Now that we are well on the way to our seventh billion barrels it seems almost incredible, at first thought, that in less than twentythree years we will have produced six times as much oil as we did the previous forty-one years. The year 1900 will not seem very long ago to many of our readers. It was within the automobile period. Cars to the number of 13,824 were registered in the United States that year, having grown steadily from the 200 registrations noted the first year a record was kept of the number of motor vehicles, which was in 1895. There was plenty of crude to go through the tremendously increasing number of cars. Only three years and six months passed before the fourth billion-barrel mark in crude production was reached. This was on March 31, 1917, and the automobile registrations that year were 5,101,000 over four times what they had been in 1913. By this time all the big eastern fields had been developed. Kansas was supposed to have seen its best days; the Glenn Pol, Healdton and Cushing in Oklahoma were past their peak and the industry asked "where next"? Butler county, Kansas, answered with the Towanda Pool, opened in June, 1917, and by the time this subsided the Central and North Texas fields began their history-making record of production and numerous other smaller developments helped to shorten the time between the fourth and the fifth billion barrels to two years and ten months bringing us up to January 30, 1920. In that year automobile registration was 9,118,000, with plenty of oil to yield the necessary gasoline and plenty more in prospect. Oklahoma, California and Texas production was on the increase; Louisiana and Wyoming were going strong and the Arkansas field had come in as an added factor. Even the old fields of the East refused to quit, and in two years and ten months the sixth billion barrel of oil had been produced. This was on March 31, 1922, and in that year the motor car registration was 12,238,000. Even this number of cars was not sufficient to embarrass the oil producer. The new fields of California, like of which the world has never seen at one time, and may never see again, are largely responsible for shortening the period between the sixth and seventh billion, and it is expected that some time this fall the latter figure will have been reached. It took nineteen straights of cars 1,000,000. In that alone three times he manufactured. Accompanying chart prepared petroleum statistics production of United States sent year and time of motor vehicle when motor-car the annual product of United States. In that year registered. In 1924 crude in the U.S. 375,000 barrels cars registered while the annual increased about tor-car register 40,793 times. FARMERS' MAKE UPON DONE Cheerfulness feeling at the end of meat pastic city, ww President Herlihy try as "headed off post-war de Like the far was hard hit packing comp surpluses, and they were wil as a buffer age output of the year broke all first eight month greater commodities n and the marked labor being fr in less than twentythree years we will have produced six times as much oil as we did the previous forty-one years. The year 1900 will not seem very long ago to many of our readers it was within the automobile period. Cars to the number of 13,824 were registered in the United States that year, having grown steadily from the 200 registrations noted the first year a record was kept of the number of motor vehicles, which was in 1895. There was plenty of crude to go around in 1900, as there had been before that time, but the demands made upon the oil men by automobile owners and other users of internal combustion engines made it necessary that the oil industry go out and find production, and it did so to such a degree that by January 31, 1909, it had passed its second billion-barrel mark, taking only eight years and one month to do it. In that year automobile registrations reached 311,000. The third billion barrels of crude was reached in four years and eight months, or by September 30, 1913, in which year the automobile registrations had increased to 1,287,000, and still the production of oil was enough to yield all the gasoline needed for Even this number of cars was not sufficient to embarrass the oil producer. The new fields of California, the like of which the world has never seen at one time, and may never see again, are largely responsible for shortening the period between the sixth and seventh billion, and it is expected that some time this fall the latter figure will have been reached, using about one year and seven months to make the record. California has been very materially helped by Oklahoma and Texas, where new fields, that compare with the best high-grade oil regions in history, are being developed, and while the automobile industry is turning out more cars than it ever has done before, and the growth in registration may bring the total above 15,000,000 for the year, there has been more crude oil than the public can find use for. The year 1923 will see well over 650,000,000 barrels of crude produced in the country and over 3,000,000 motor cars and trucks manufactured. The crude produced this year will packing compulsions, and they were wiped as a buffer age output of the year broke all first eight months cent greater, commodities n and the market labor being f Some meats are 1913 figures, lower, for exam 10 to 12 says President Cheapest foods census figures per cent in cost is. livestock, u dasty, and in cline of 48 per products turns says of these industry: "This complierest not only try but to the shows clearly products has ANNOUNCING The SALE OF SIX A most remarkable value giving sale of quality ranges. See t see the prices—note the terms—the net. We will have ranges you will recognize the extraordinary c 66 ROPER GAS RANGES ON SPECIAL SALE FOR 6 DAYS ONLY 1/6 DOWN ON SPECIAL SALE FOR 6 DAYS ONLY 1/6 DOWN $6 FOR YOUR OLD RANGE This is the RODER with patented ventilated oven, rustproof oven linings, automatic lighter, enameled burner box. A standard specification guaranteed stovetop. TO SAVE—ACT NOW. To insure buying at the special sale price of $66, simply deposit now. We will hold delivery for 66 days if you wish in today to see the many different features of this range. SOUTH COUNTY GAS COMPANY ANAHEIM GAZETTE months colon-barrel was reach 1917, and that year times what this time it been deposed to the Glenn in Oklahoma and the inquiry Butler with the June, 1917, insided the fields began of producer development the time fifth bill and ten January 30, mile regis plenty of gasoline act. Okla-productioniana and and the was an add-ids of the two years million barrals. This was that year was 12. FARMERS' MARKET DEPEND UPON DOMESTIC PROSPERITY Cheerfulness was the prevailing feeling at the 18th annual convention of the meat packing industry at Atlantic City, which began yesterday. President Herick described the industry as "headed away from the period of post-war depression." Like the farmer the meat industry was hard hit. Nothing saved the big packing companies but their large surpluses, and in some instances they were wiped out, after standing as a buffer against hard times. The output of the packing industry last year broke all records, yet for the first eight months of 1923 it is 20 per cent greater. Compared with most commodities meat products are low and the market for them is enormous, labor being fairly well employed. rapidly and approximately as far as the value of the producers' raw material; and that both our products and the producers' product have declined greatly more than those of many other industries. In brief it is a very graphic example of the mutuality of interest between producer and packer. The greater part of the increased output of the packers this year was larger than 1922. There has been at the same time an increase of about 33 per cent in exports of meat products, but the increase in exports was a small percentage of the increased production. The remainder, except for a small amount in cold storage, represents the larger meat consumption of the United States as unemployment was overcome by many reviving industries, particularly the building trades. When lagor is well employed in this country the meat industry can prosper, and the farmer is vitally interested in the general employment situation. MOXLEY'S TEETH We confess to a feeling of warm sympathy for Herschell B. Moxley of Gulpha, Ark., graduate of a Chicago correspondence school of aviation. Packing his correspondence school diploma in his pocket, Herschell walked all the way from Arkansas to Fort MacArthur, California, for the purpose of becoming an airman in Uncle Sam's well known and highly efficient army. At Fort MacArthur Mr. Moxley, Bachelor of Aviation, was given a through physical examination. He passed well, until it came to the scrutiny of his teeth. It was found—to the horror and alarm, no doubt, of the dental surgeons—that Mr. Moxley had one less tooth than the required minimum laid down by the war department. He was rejected. In fact, it seems a burning shame that a man with initiative enough to wade through a correspondence course in flying and to walk half across the continent or a chance to use his "knowledge" in his chosen field, should be rejected by reason of missing teeth. One of England's crack aviators during the war was a man whose right leg was so badly crippled early in the game, that he had to use braces. If an aviator can win medals with a game leg, it seems to us that he could flutter along with no teeth at all—or perhaps a mouthful of artificial ones. Joking aside, it seems too bad that the government should insist upon looking gift aviators in the mouth. NOTICE In the Supeurior Court of the County of Orange, State of California. In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Anna Neubauer, Deceased. Notice for Publication of Time of Proving Will, Etc. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 19th day of October, 1923, at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, at the court room of Department 2 of this court, in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing the application of Paul Neubauer and Elsa Neubauer, praying that a document now on file in this court, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, be admitted to the probate, that Letters Testamentary be issued thereon to said Paul Neubauer and Elsa Neubauer, at which time and place all persons interested therein may appear and contest the same. Dated October 3, 1923. J. M. BACKS, County Clerk. WEISEL & STARK, Attorneys for Petitioners. Publish Oct. 4, 11 and 18. Like the farmer the meat industry was hard hit. Nothing saved the big packing companies but their large surpluses, and in some instances they were wiped out, after standing as a buffer against hard times. The output of the packing industry last year broke all records, yet for the first eight months of 1923 it is 20 per cent greater. Compared with most commodities meat products are low and the market for them is enormous, labor being fairly well employed. Some meats are selling actually below 1913 figures, spare ribs 6 per cent lower, for example, and some other 10 to 12 per cent lower. "Meat," says President Herrick, "is one of our cheapest foods." From 1919 to 1921 census figures show a decline of 51 per cent in cost of raw materials, that is, livestock, used by the packing industry, and in the same period a decline of 48 per cent in value of meats products turned out. Mr. Herrick says of these figures of the packing industry: "This compilation should be of interest not only to the packing industry but to the producers as well. It shows clearly that the value of our products has fallen approximately as At Fort MacArthur Mr. Moxley, Bachelor of Aviation, was given a through physical examination. He passed well, until it came to the scrutiny of his teeth. It was found—to the horror and alarm, no doubt, of the dental surgeons—that Mr. Moxley had one less tooth than the required minimum laid down by the war department. He was rejected. We not only sympathize with Mr. Moxley, but are inclined to look askance at the action of the examining officers. We contend that it may often be very unwise to enforce general regulations in a special case—and Mr. Moxley certainly was a special case. A CLEAR P Checks give you a clear re- out, either for business or for 6 DAYS ONLY $6 PER MONTH WASH CAS BILL $6.60 OFF FOR CASH A CLEAR P Checks give you a clear re out, either for business or for It is for this reason that o considers the opening of a one of the first steps in estab prise. 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