. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across TANKS AT A STORAGE DEPOT. Brothers arranged for a system of depots throughout Bussia and Ger-many, wliere oil could be stored in summer for distribution in largest of these depots is at Oiel, and there are four other large de-pots at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, and Saratov. 414 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN TPIE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. The depot at Orel can receive eighteen million gallons, and the foTirother large depots-about three million
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across TANKS AT A STORAGE DEPOT. Brothers arranged for a system of depots throughout Bussia and Ger-many, wliere oil could be stored in summer for distribution in largest of these depots is at Oiel, and there are four other large de-pots at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, and Saratov. 414 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN TPIE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. The depot at Orel can receive eighteen million gallons, and the foTirother large depots-about three million gallons each. The smaller depots,together with the depot at Tsaritsin, make a total storage capacity of be-tween fifty and sixty million gallons of petroleum available for use whenthe Yolga is frozen and traffic suspended. All this M^as done before the completion of the railway between theCaspian and Black seas. The line from Batoum, on the Black Sea, by. TIEW IN AN OIL REGION. Avay of Tiflis to Baku, on the Caspian, was opened in 1SS3, and immediate-ly about two hundred tank-cars were set to carrying oil to where it couldbe loaded into steamers for transportation to the ports of the Mediterra-nean and to England. A pipe-line similar to what you have in America COMPETITION OF RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN PETROLEUM. 415 to connect your oil regions with the seaboard, will probably be estal)lishedbefore long between Baku and Batoura; the oil will be pumped fromJ>aku to the crest of the pass through the Caucasus Mountains, and fromthere it will run by gravity like a mountain stream down to the shores ofthe Bhick Sea. There it can be loaded into tank-steamers, or placed inbarrels for distribution wherever it can iind a market. Perhaps I may be building castles in the air, said the gentleman,since I am not of your nationality, but I look upon the European mar-ket for American petroleum as doomed to destruction. The Baku petro-leum has driven your
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