Show pi E US is THE frabe RAGE A aai awi wi it her er in jt A 3 f 1 a philadelphia den denies i e s that ibe the article aTtiC 16 petroleum w which it iba occupying ia 1 so much mur h of the public att attrition at the ibe present day is obtained from coal 1 I will here her state that last hist summer I 1 visited the oil regions and became convinced of the fallacy of tho the theory that petroleum was derived from coal there is no coal ol of importance in the pennsyl vani i c oil ill regions and one ol of the giedt est difficulties the oil operators have bave to contend with is the scarcity of fuel after a full examination odthe region and by applying to common sense for a solution iti tion ot of th the 6 problem I 1 b became became convinced that nature in her gi gibat eat laboratory in ill the interior of the world is constantly manufacturing gas which condenses to petroleum in the crevices of the file rocks made by the convulsions that formed the mountains basing my calculations on the correctness of my poi tion I 1 am of the decided opinion th atthe supply of petroleum is unlimited the bulk of the world is i liquid fire the amount of burning aning material is beyond comprehension its quality lity we know nothing about further than 1 I have ment mentioned ionea but we know that the material is intensely combustible wv ns it burns without the aid of atmos atmo pharic air produced nielse be imm e nse as nature never cusses ceases her labor the same operations that made the world habitable for or man are in in continual existence existence the gradual pr pro ces or of cooling of tb the worlds crust if is jn in fact all the ope operations operatis ratip ns of nature tha produced produce a what we see and feel will be continual and like results will follow goun Cont aless ages ageg will elapse before this combustion ceases P and the generations to follow will never exhaust the supply of petroleum they may possibly poss bly bo obliged to bore do pr in the earth to reach reaba the treasure gibat is petroleum |