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EMPIRE OI
RISE OF LITTLE-KNOWN DURMÁ FIELD,
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Sip Herbert Thirkell White, late Licut Governor of Burma, presided at a meet ing of the Indian section of the Royal Society of Arts when Mr. N. G. Cholme ley, C.S.I., late Commissioner of the Magwe Division of Burma, read a paper on the Burma oilfields. There was a large attendance,
After referring to the ignorance of the general public of the fact that the Province of Burma was a very consider able producer of petroleum, Mr. Cholme ley said the Burma oilfield was producing its modest output of oif“long, before 1859, when Colonel Draké first struck oil in America. The Burma oilfield was not Among the great oufields of the world Its annual output of 220 million gallons ur so was a mere drop in the ocenu of the world's production. It enjoyed, however, the distinction at present of being the biggest producer within the British. Empire, and if the saying credited to the inventor of the Diesel oil engine-that **for power-generating purposes oil will entirely displace solid substances before many years are past-ever come true, the importance of an oilfield of our own
more especially for Admiralty purposes, could hardly be over-estimated.
TWO. DISTINCT FIELDA,
There wore in Burma, as a matter of fact, two quite distinct oilfields which were in process of being worked, for besides the main feld in Upper Barms, there was a small field near the Aracan coast, on Le islands of Ramree and Cheduba, but the output from that region per annum was valy about 56,000 gallons. There appeared to be little probability of an enhanced production from this field, which seemed to be of no commercial importance.
MISH IN LAND VALURA.
Before 1809 than sites could be par chased for sure varying from 20 to 100 rapes. From that tins on the threatened competition of other companies drove the price up. In 1906 the Rangoon Oil Com- pany appeared on the scene, and began leasing well sites from the Twinzayon, on the terms of payment of a royalty of eight annas for every barrel of crude oil Won, The success of this schome soon brought a host of other competitors into the field, and by the end of the year the price of the best well sites had risen, to 5,000 rupees; in 1907 it rose to 10,000 rupees;“in June, 1908, to 30,000 rupees; and by the end of that year as inuch as Rs. 60,000 (£4,000 was paid for a well. site in the best part of the field. This, of "course, was' a "boom" value; the pre- sent price was from Rs. 7,000 to Rs. 10,000.
There were now six companies at work on the field, with an issued capital of close on £0,000,000, and as none except the Burma Oil Company had as yet obtained any considerable supply outside the Twin- zayos reserves, it might be imagined how keen was the competition.
FATHER VAUGHAN,
IMPRESSIONS OF HIS RECENT WORLD TOUR,
During his sixteen months' tour of the world, during which he has travelled Bernard Vaughan, who has just returned some twenty-six thousand miles, Father
to London, has had many curious experi- ences, Father Vaughan travelled from the Hudson to the Yukon and from the Rockies to San Francisco. After visiting Japan and China he went on to Singa- pore and Ceylon and on the way back to England stayed at Marseilles and Paris.
The Evening Standard of April 18th
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Father Vaughan sitting in his study, One of our representatives to-day found surveying an avalanche of new books, newspapers, letters and telegrams. "I am afraid my many correspondents will think me a most ungrateful person for not replying individually to this deluge of kind messages, and unkind requests for The Burma oilfield proper was situated personal acknowledgments," he observed, in four sections on opposite sides of ruefully. Speaking of his tour, he said: the Irrawaddy about midway between I went, in the first instance, to visit Rangoon and Mandalay, The most America. For years past I have received important part of the field was on the invitations to lecture there. I have been east side, being divided into the Yenang able to gratify the desire of my American yaung old, 26 miles above Minhu, and friends to some extent. During my that at Singu, about 20 miles higher up. travels I have spoken publicly about 400 The relative importance of these sections times. I have addressed Indian tribes, might be gauged by their respective out- negrocs, Eequimaux, Japanese, and puts, which in 1911 were as follows:-
Chinese, of all denominations. Besides Catholics, my audiences have included. Protestants, Jews, Unitarians, Agnostics, and Atheists.
Yenangraung Singu Yenangyut Minhu
Total
Gallons. 106,494,000 50,576,000
4,470,000.
632,000
221,546,000.
The total production was about 5 per cent ahead of the previous year.
AN ANCIENT INDUSTRY. After referring to local stories of the first discovery of oil, the lecturer do scribed the old-fashioned methods of digging wells in Burma previous to the advent of the oil companies. In 1797 Captain Hiram Cox estimated the pro- duction of the native wells at 92,781 tons (1,560lbs.), valued at $80,737 Sicca rupees annually, but these figures were based on information that was certainly incorrect, and they were no doubt greatly exaggerat ed. In 1826 Crawford reckoned the annual output at about 34,380 tons, value about £82,500, the average daily output being about 830 Ihs, per well. In 1856 Captain F. Yule referred to the export trade. He anid-
"There is now a considerable export trade of the article from Rangoon to England, and one of the Rangoon houses has a European agent residing on the spot. The demand in England is, I believe, for use to some extent as a lubricating oil, but it is also employed by Price's Company, at Lambeth, in the manufacture of patent candles. It has sold in the bondja markets at from £40 to Ela a ton. The ordinary price of the article in Barins used to be about 165, the ton". Some modern oil companies must sigh for the good old days, when crude oil could be bought at the wells for 165. a ton and sold in London for £45.
THE NEW ERA."
It was not until the annexation of Upper Burma, in 1885, that a change was made in the method of working. In 1880 the total production was probably about 2,500,000 gallons; by 1880 the production | had risen to over 4,000,000 gallons in 1900 it was close on 36,000,000, and in 1910 211,500,000 gallons were produced with an export of over 105,000,000 gallons, besides some: 5,000,000 lbs of paraffin-wax and candles. This enormous increase was due to the appearance on the field of Western capital and Western methods of working In 1987 the Burma Oil Company, having acquired by a Lease from Government the blocks of land adjoining the native reserves, put down their first drilled well, and the new era began. p
STUDYING HUMAN NATURE
Wherever I go I see things for myself. In order to arrive at a perfect understanding of things as they really are, I first studied the economie conditions of the various places I visited. I went to the markets; I looked in the shop windows-DOL forgetting those convenient institutions, the pawnshops. I explored railway stations, goods yards; and I gathered sufficient data from personal experience to form a tolerably good judgment of sweated industries and of rates of wages.
the music halls, and above all, the picture- “Then I inquired about the theatres, theatres and I gleaned some startling information. I dived into the primary and parish schnois; I visited working men's clubs, and so secured first-hand knowledge of the economic, social, and religious conditions of the citizens who are in reality the ballast of the Ship of State. I read the local papers, and ascertained what was doing. If you want to gain a good idea of what things really are, you must get on your own feet, and, under your own hat, atride forth in a fail-fellow-well-met spirit. And so I have dived right away from Clubland to Sluudom.
"There is nothing so interesting as people, but to know them you must pal with them. I did so, and have come home. knowing the netual living peoples of America, Japan, and China. And how extraordinary alike we all are! We are all made for the same destiny; all of the sume origiv. The differences between nations are like the differences between colours. They are surface deep only. We all have the same senses of the body, the same far-reaching faculties of the soul. What a mystery it all is! How little we all know, except that we have in common the same loves, the same sorrows, the same ambitions and disappointments, the same gains--and, alast the same, losses,
TWO KINDS OF IGNORANCE.
The only difference between the most learned and the least lettered man is that the cultured man has his ignorance in order, while the untutored one has his in confusion-like my room before you, a litter of literature, I have met many learned men in my travels, but not one who really knows anything about vege tablo Frie or animal life, or, especially. human life. We label these things and convert them to our use, but we know nothing about them. I met my friend, Thomas Edison, and said to him:- You have tamed electricity, yoked it to our chariot wheels, you have placed it on the market, and in the hands of children, and treated it as though you know all about its nature and essence do you know any more about it than I do? What do you know about it?' he asked. Abso lately nothing, I replied. My know fedge, added to yours," said Edison,
Mr. Cholmcley thon described the Minha field, where the production had risen from 18,320 gallone in 1910 to n monthly production, from about 80 wells, in 1912, Lo some 300,000 gallons. At Yenangyaung the Burma Oil Company were the pioneers. The field was divided into the leased blocks, which were let by the Governinent to the company in the early days after the annexation of Upper Burma, before any other companies appeared in the field, and reserves of Twingon and Bene, which were set aside by Governaient for the hereditary oil can be described in the terms you have minors, or 'winayos. With the exception just used
of the parts of the Burma Oil Company's should like to pursue the theme leased blocks, known as the Khodaung further, but I must pay a sick call," con- or Nine Hills, the reserves contained
the richest part of the silfield, and that cluded Father Vaughan. "But on leaving company for many years pursued archal you, I ask, does it not appear strange lenged a policy of purchasing well sites that men, who live in the midst of all this from the Twingos, and sinking wells mystery, are themselves, as human beings, on them.
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