Excerpt from Report on the Production, Technology, and Uses of Petroleum and Its Products Sir: I herewith submit my report as special agent for collecting the statistics of the mining and manufacture of petroleum for the year ending May 31, 1880. The statistics of mining were gathered, as stated in the chapter devoted to their consideration, by personal interviews with those parties who handled the oil, and from. A careful examination of the localities producing it. The statistics of manufacture were obtained by means of a printed schedule of questions, which was addressed to each firm or corporation engaged in manufacturing petroleum. The answers to the questions contained in these schedules were consolidated into the separate items as given in the report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.