| Show surprising FIGURES I 1 to those who like to delve i into statistics of production I 1 commerce and the like the ac figures often afford somei add surprises for example awhile florida is classed among the cottan producing states one county in alabama grows more cotton than the entire state of florida another surprise is seen iri the record of pennsylvanian Pennsyl exports the keystone state has baeff established for years as a leader in the production of coal iron and steel but trade figures for 1930 show that penn sylvanies syl principal item of export is lubricating oil with shipments valued at bituminous coal ranks second anth rache third iron and steel fourth and gasoline fifth the state exports more than B hundred leading products ranging from silk and rayon hosiery and hair to automobiles and railway cars oil is on the export throne however due to its extensive refining interests and the fact that the state produces a large part of the famous pennsylvania grade crude oil the premier crude of the world perhaps it is not inappropriate that oil should assume the export lead in the keystone stat eor it was the scene of the first pil drilled and produced in commercially paying quantities |
