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Show and owners of patents and patent rights, and afford the opportunity for i testing the patents on a commercial scale. Commenting on these views beforo a group of oil men recently, Mr. Manning Man-ning said, in part: "I expect to see improvements in the technique of the recovery of oil and tho protection of oil and gas against waste take place in the general development de-velopment of this country. I am look-I look-I ing forward to the future; to the growth of better methods for producing and utilizing oil and gas. "I am confidently expecting tremendous tremen-dous progress along these lines, and look forward to the day when the methods which are now used in our oil fields will be looked upon as most crude and inefficient. I expect to see more oil taken from the ground than is now thought possible. I expect to see it utilized with far greater efficiency, effi-ciency, and that the producers and refiners re-finers of oil and those who consume oil and its products will derive far greater benefits from it than at present. In this progress, in this development, it is my hope that the bureau of mines will take a most commendable part. "I have estimated that to carry on this work in a successful manner a million dollars per annum should be provided by the petroleum industry, which amount should be distributed between be-tween tho producers of oil, refiners and producers of natural gns. The total gross production in 1013 was about ' 2,500,000,000. To raise this one million mil-lion dollars would take one-twenty-fifth of 1 per cent, or $1 out of each $2300 gross profit." nine URGES RESEARCH IRK Van II. Manning, director of tho Hn wnu of Mines, in discunninc; tho petroleum pe-troleum nil nat ion in this country, advocates advo-cates tho oHtabliidnnrnt of nn inuinal fund of $1,0110,000 fur tho purponn of or(;:i.ni.liii; a petroleum research bureau, thin to bo undertaken tinder tho direction direc-tion of tho Amnrifiin 1 ''trolmitn innti-tule, innti-tule, the Hrnpn of iln net ivit icn to be broadened to meet t hn condition", now prevnilini.;. .Much a fund, it, In un.iorted, would bo an ciirmir.'i eminent to invi'iitorn |