bers of the legislature that may be present, to whom I now take the liberty of presenting a draft of a bill which may serve as a guide in framing a new Coal oil law, worthy to represent Missouri in the sisterhood of states, and which I hope and trust will be enacted and given us by the legislature during the present session(13). DIAGRAM, TABLES AND STATEMENTS. The reference to Table No. 1 in the test is misplaced and should have been given seven lines above at the end of the paragraph. 1. INDUSTRIAL TABLES TAKEN FROM THE U. S. CENSUS SHOWING THE GROWTH OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRIES. Estab❜h Steam Engines Hands Capital Wages Value of Prod'ct in ments. Horse-power. No. employ'd invested. paid. material. gallons. EIGHTH U. S. CENSUS VOLUME: MANUFACTURES, JUNE 30, 1860. Product in dollars. The U.S 321 1$ 680,020 3. Lamps, lamp fixtures and lamp trimmings. 4541$ 261,800l$ 180,6361$ 295,7861 NINTH U. S. CENSUS VOLUME: INDUSTRY AND WEALTH, JUNE 30, 1870. I. Each Mining Industry--Petroleum. Table 14. 2297 2095 4488 $10,045,826 $3,995,030 $1,401,945 181,263,505 $19,304,224 4070 $ 9,249,283 $3,797,818 $1,293,177 171,207,662 $18,045,967 2. Coal Oil-Refined. Table 8. 4214 2341 198 105 1870 $ 6,770,383 $1,184,559|$21,450,189 9571 4,006,433 157,359 4,496,163| 3. Lamps, Lanters and Locomotive Headlights. Table 8. $26,942,287 15,251,223 The U.S. 40 154 16 15 (*)10 96 78,700 47,606 995,289 89,322 184,500 New Y. 12 271 3 1751 210,500 100,560 133,214 398,976 Water wheels and their horse power. 2. NUMBER OF PATENTS issued in the United States on oil burners, vapor burners and appliances to lamps in general, growing out of the introduction and general use of Petroleum and its products, collated from the Re ports of the U. S. Patent Office(*). (*) From this list are excluded all patents relating to lanterns, signal lights and burners and lamps based on illuminating material other than Petroleum or its products. (t) In this year the first patent was issued in which the word Petroleum occurs. (4) An estimation of the capital invested in the manufacture of lamps, I was unable to obtain. |