. Journal of electricity. RY estimatesby John D. Northrop ofthe United States Geolo-gical Survey, Depart-ment of the Interior, in-dicate that the quantityof petroleum producedand marketed in the oilfields of the UnitedStates in 1917 reachedthe record-breaking totalof 341,800,000 barrels, aquantity nearly 14 percent greater than the for-mer record output of300,767,158 barrels, es- Not a Victrola record, but one tablished in 1916. Cali-of the power plant district man-, • i £ , , , agers looking through a pipe miornia s fields were the seLhe oil fields. ond iargest 0f all sources The production i
. Journal of electricity. RY estimatesby John D. Northrop ofthe United States Geolo-gical Survey, Depart-ment of the Interior, in-dicate that the quantityof petroleum producedand marketed in the oilfields of the UnitedStates in 1917 reachedthe record-breaking totalof 341,800,000 barrels, aquantity nearly 14 percent greater than the for-mer record output of300,767,158 barrels, es- Not a Victrola record, but one tablished in 1916. Cali-of the power plant district man-, • i £ , , , agers looking through a pipe miornia s fields were the seLhe oil fields. ond iargest 0f all sources The production is apportioned among the major fieldsas follows: Barrels. Barrels. Field— 1916 1917 Appalachian 23,009,455 24,600,000 Lima-Indiana 3,905,003 3,500,000 Illinois 17,714,235 15,900,000 Oklahoma-Kansas 115,809,792 147,000,000 Central and N. Texas 9,303,005 11,000,000 North Louisiana 11, 8,700,000 Gulf Coast 21,768,096 24,900,000 Rocky Mountain- 6,476,289 9,200,000 California 90,951,936 97,000,000 Other Fields 7,705. Totals 300,767,158 341,800,000 The salient features of the industry in 1917 werethe record levels reached and firmly maintained by prices of crude oil at the wells and the enormous de-mand which absorbed not only the current output ofthe wells, but necessitated a net draft of about 21,-000,000 barrels on oil in storage, principally in Califor-nia and Illinois. The surface reserve of crude oil inthe United States at the end of 1917 is estimated at153,000,000 barrels. The principal sources of new production in 1917were Estill county, Ky.; Butler county, Kan.; Cartercounty, Okla.; Wichita and Harris counties, Texas;Converse county, Wyo.; and Los Angeles county, Cal. Petroleum comes fourth in the West, accordingto these statistics, as a most valuable asset in naturalwealth of the nation. But the salient feature of war-time service in the oil fields is the vast increase in theuse of hydro-electric energy in the drilling of newwells and in the pumping of the oil it
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