Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-21 | Page 38 | Production of Crude Petroleum is Less

PRODUCTION OF CRUDE PETROLEUM IS LESS Production of crude oil for October in tho United States amounted to SS.Sli'.OOO barrels, agaln.-t S.i.foT.oco in September, a decrease of 248, 0u0, according to the Boston News Bureau. Daily averiise output for October war! 1.074. SOS barrels, 47.426, or 4 per cent, less than In September. Sep-tember. Despite slightly lower output for October, Octo-ber, production was 2,c64,000 barrels greater than in October. 118. Total crude produced during ten months of this year is 313.097.CuiO barrels. Oil produced in October, by fields, compared com-pared ivlth September, is as follows (United Slates Keotoglcal survey fipures): i Oct. j Sept. I Dec. Appalachian .. 2.513.000 2. 4C9.000J '24.0C0 Lima-Indiana 279.000 277,000. "2.0H0 Illinois 1,004,000 877.000 MST.OOO Oklahoma- Kansaa . ...10,764,000 10,976,000 212,000 North and cent. Texas .6,219,000 6,3':9,000 150,000 North Louisiana . . 1.262,000 1.304.000 42.000 Oulf Coast ... 1.543.000 1,790,000 253,000 Hooky Mtn. ... 1.054.000 1,16a. 000 115,000 California .. 8,621,000 8,4lO.OOO',211,000 Total 133.319.000 33,667.00o 348,000 Increase. Averarre of jtroduotton reported by .Standard Oil company and Independent Producers' agency. California eqntlnued to show an Increase In-crease in output, (training 211,000 barrels in October. Its fields are contributing more than 26 per cent of the total United States production. It was the only one of the big regions to gain In October, Oklahoma-Kansas and Texas falling off 212,000 and 150,000 barrels, respectively.