Show COAL OILS WONDERFUL BOOM BOOK the most moat startling start linx of the many startling developments to in Americ american aik spec peo to in recent years is the be present extraordinary boom in oil neither wheat nor silver nor sugar nor whisky nor any other of the ties tiei which figure in the fluctuations on change oba oo has partaken partaker par taken within at least a decade of anything like the advance that days daya have witnessed in the pride price of petroleum that the speculators have a large share in creating this excrement need not be argued but that there to la something more to it than a more mere 1 1 will be corner readily understood from the fact that what to is known as aa the visible supply of coal oil has haa decreased more than two hundred per cent from what it 1 was two years yeara ago the inexorable law of supply and demand may vo cordingly be credited with being the real backbone of the present movement while there has haa been no appreciable diminution in the int consumed there has ban beep a MOM moat remarkable falling off in the amount produced the immediate effect of this thin will be of 09 course a material increase in the price of this indispensable product to the consumer but there to is hardly ground for the fear expressed in many iu artere that the natural supply of oil 38 rapidly giving out such a thought my may only be regarded with indifference ence because of iti improbability tor for JOW ew articles that enter into the daily life and use of civilized man could be pared less jess easily than this campara com para new yet universally utilized product to be sure the world could it ii COrn compelled polled return to the homely candle for its if illuminant ll or it could by imparting the stimulus t tj invention which elty is best able ti 6 nourish develop and render cheap safe and practicable the all cony aei ing powers power of electricity still the coal oil would JEW be grievously nothing or which we now DOW know could supply its place the world would be incalculably poorer and mankind Intini tily lose less comfortable if it should disappear altogether fromn our economy no such calamity however need be apprehended within at least the near future though in the very na iia ture of things the end must come omesime ome time as asit it has in many sections with coal itself with natural gas gaa with tina berand with other products product which man has ba used perhaps improvidently and with no to save or restore alore re that some ome of the old oil fields should begin to show a falling failing supply is not strange but the effect of tb abr is will only be to awaken industry and prospect prope oti i g la in others where work has baa been aus aua or not begun simply limply because of the abundance already on tap the product itself 1 is known to be obtainable in many of the country not dot yet worked at all IL n fact it is generally scattered over nearly every grand division of the he globe it may in time become so BO dear through distance from the point of consumption that cheaper illuminants will supplant plant it in common use but even that contingency is amota so far as ag this country is in concerned wyo and colorado are practically virgin fields as yet and our own awu san ban juan basits has its possibilities all ahead of it the people of utah under these circumstances can therefore watch the gyrations or the oil market with much complacency feeling sure that it if their coal oil bills show too great an increase in price it is in only because they and their neighbors are not utilizing a re auroe that la Is placed almost within tasir hands |