Sketches in Crude-oil / Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe

by John J. McLaurin

South-eastern Ohio, Quantity and Value of Oil (Refined Reduced to Crude

Equivalent) Exported from the United States, Wells Completed, and

Average Yearly Price of Refined at New York, from September

1st, 1859, to December 31st, 1896.

---

If needs be, petroleum may well be defiant;

The baby has grown to be earth’s greatest giant.

	TOTAL	LOWEST	HIGHEST	YEARLY	TOTAL	TOTAL	TOTAL	REFINED
	BARRELS	MONTHLY		AVERAGE	WELLS	GALLONS	VALUE AT	PER GAL.
YEARS.	PRODUCED.	AVERAGE PRICE.		PRICE.	DRILLED.	EXPORTED.	NEW YORK.	NEW YORK.
1859	1,873	$20 00_	$20 00_	$20 00_	4
1860	547,439	2 75_	19 25_	9 60_	175	1,300	$850
1861	2,119,045	10	1 00_	49	340	12,700	5,800	$0 61½
1862	3,153,183	10	2 25_	1 05_	425	400,000	146,000	36⅜
1863	2,667,543	2 25_	3 37½	3 15_	514	1,000,000	450,000	44¾
1864	2,215,150	4 00_	12 12½	9 87½	937	22,210,369	10,782,689	65
1865	2,560,200	4 62½	8 25_	6 59_	890	25,496,849	16,563,413	58¾
1866	3,385,105	2 12½	4 50_	3 74_	830	50,987,341	24,830,887	42½
1867	3,458,113	1 75_	3 55_	41	876	70,255,581	24,407,642	28⅜
1868	3,540,670	1 95_	5 12½	3 62½	1,055	79,456,888	21,810,676	29½
1869	4,186,475	4 95_	6 95_	5 63¾	1,149	100,636,684	31,127,433	32¾
1870	5,308,046	3 15_	4 52½	3 89_	1,653	113,735,294	32,668,960	26⅜
1871	5,278,072	3 82½	4 82½	4 34_	1,392	149,892,691	36,894,810	24¼
1872	6,505,774	3 15_	4 92½	3 64_	1,183	145,171,583	34,058,390	23⅝
1873	9,849,508	1 00_	2 60_	1 83_	1,263	187,815,187	42,050,756	17⅞
1874	11,102,114	55	1 90_	1 17_	1,317	247,806,483	41,245,815	13
1875	8,948,749	1 03_	1 75_	1 35_	2,398	221,955,308	30,078,568	13
1876	9,142,940	1 80_	3 81_	2 56¼	2,920	243,650,152	32,915,786	19⅛
1877	13,230,330	1 80_	3 53¼	2 42_	3,939	309,198,914	61,789,438	15½
1878	15,272,491	82½	1 65¼	1 19_	3,064	338,841,303	46,574,974	10¾
1879	19,835,903	67⅛	1 18⅛	85⅞	3,048	378,310,010	40,305,249	08⅛
1880	26,027,631	80	1 10¼	94½	4,217	423,964,699	36,208,625	09
1881	27,376,509	81¼	95½	85¼	3,880	397,660,262	40,315,609	08
1882	30,053,500	54½	1 27⅛	78⅝	3,304	559,954,590	51,232,706	07⅜
1883	23,128,389	92½	1 16⅞	1 06¾	2,847	505,931,622	44,913,079	08
1884	23,772,209	63¾	1 11¼	83¾	2,265	513,660,092	47,103,248	08⅛
1885	20,776,041	70⅞	1 05½	88½	2,761	574,628,180	50,257,747	08
1886	25,798,000	62⅛	88¾	71¼	3,478	577,781,752	50,199,844	07⅛
1887	21,478,883	59¼	80	66⅝	1,660	592,803,267	46,824,933	06¾
1888	16,488,668	76	93¾	87	1,515	578,351,638	47,042,409	07½
1889	21,487,435	83¼	1 08⅛	94	5,434	616,195,459	49,913,677	07⅛
1890	30,065,867	68⅞	1 05_	86½	6,435	664,491,498	51,403,089	07⅜
1891	35,742,152	59	77¾	66¾	3,390	710,124,077	52,026,734	06⅞
1892	33,332,306	52	64⅛	55⅛	1,954	715,471,979	44,805,992	06
1893	31,362,890	53½	78⅜	64	1,980	804,337,168	42,142,058	05¼
1894	29,597,614	80	91⅜	84	3,756	908,281,968	41,499,806	05⅙
1895	31,147,235	95⅝	1 79⅝	1 35¼	7,138	853,126,180	56,223,425	07⅓
1896	33,298,437	1 40_	1 50_	1 19_	7,811	927,431,959	62,132,432	06⅞
Totals	593,232,488				93,197	13,110,140,927	$6,332,963,049
						WELLS	BARRELS	STOCKS
		OPERATIONS IN 1896.				DRILLED.	PRODUCED.	DEC. 31.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, South-eastern Ohio						7,811	33,298,437	9,550,582
North-eastern Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas,
	Colorado, Wyoming, California					5,895	22,491,500	23,985,000
			Totals			13,706	55,789,937	33,535,582

---

Breadstuffs and cotton, iron and coal