ASPHALT AND RELATED BITUMENS
1189
commodity statistics compiled by the Interstate Commerce Coinmission. The
increase was general; but the largest gains were in terminations by railroads
of the Eastern district, operating east of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers
and north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers. West of the Mississippi River the
gains were greatest in the Central Western region, bounded by Chicago, Peoria,
St. Louis, Kansas City, El Paso, the boundary with Mexico, and Portland,
Oreg.

Asphalt (natural, byproduct, or petroleum) terminated by class I railroads
in the
United States, 1940—41., by districts and regions, in short tons
District and region
1940
1011
Eastern district:


New England region                                       
Great Lakes region                                         
Central Eastern region                                      
205,093
1,088,482
1,360,132
301, 764
1,432,220
1,822,661
Total Eastern district -
2,653,707
3, 611,685
Southern district:


Pocahontas region                                         Southern region
                                          
166,738
688,415
119, $07
.862,275
Total Southern district.                                       
855,153
1,060,082
Western district:


Northwestern region                                       
Central Western region                                     
Southwestern region                                       
538,028
924,705
307,463
585,743
1,100,222
354~000
Total Western district                                     
1,770,196
. 2,010,065
Total United States                                      
5,279,056
6,722,232

ROAD OIL

 Refinery sales of road oil to domestic consumers increased 5 percent in
quantity—from 8,444,000 barrels in 1940 to 8,831,000 barrels in 1941.
Higher prices brought an increase of 30 percent in value— from $9,457,000
to $12,252,000.
 Of the road oil sold in the United States to domestic consumers in 1941,
only 365,908 barrels valued at $647,546 were made from foreign petroleum,
imported chiefly from Venezuela and Mexico. Of the road oil made from foreign
órude oil, nearly all was sold by refineries of the East Coast district.

Road oil sold by petroleum refineries to domestic consumers in the United
&~tes,
1940—41, by districts
District

~
1940

1941


Thousands
of barrels
Thousands
of dollars
.
Thousands
of barrels
Tho~mnds
of dollars
East Coast.                               
Appalachian                              
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, etc                
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri                
Texas                                      
Louisiana-Arkansas                         
Rocky Mountain . - - -                  
California                                Total United States.          
         
846
159
2,219
878
222
130
1,259
2,731
1,464
178
2,620
892
434
149
1,433
2.287
391
44
2,603
682
237
121
1,458
3,295
1,542
77
3,683.
1,101
238
1.27
1,851
3,503

8,444
9,457
8,831
12, ~232