Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-08
CLEVELAND MANUFACTURERS.
OIL REFINING AND REF1NERIEs.
THE CuYAHoGA On WORKS

Are situated on Forest street, at the cross
ing Of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail.
way. Messrs. Cultivate, Shurmer & Co.
completed this refinery, about the first o.
July last, and had it in operation only g
month when a fire destroyed the treating
house and tank for refined oil, involving g
loss in buildings and OF of $4,000. With
their accustomed energy, however, they put
the establishment in running order again
within thirty days. The works consist of 6
warehouse thirty by seventy feet, holding
800 or 500 barrels of crude a long platform
on the side track; wooden tankage for 34C
barrels of gasolene and benzole; a 5000
barrel iron tank for crude ian iron tanI
for refined will soon be built TO replace the
wooden one burned } four thirty-barrel
stills, capacity 100, barrels a day, which
will be increased to ISS barrels per day
when the two additional stills are completed
which they are now building, and an agita-
tor holding 400 barrels. They are also max
ing preparations to manufacture lubricating
oils, and when they ave their works COM
Pleted for that purpose, which will be in q
few days, they expect to make from thirty
to fl fly barrels of lubricaiing oil per week
for the general market.
Messrs. Cultivate, Shurmer 4 Co., have
capital of about s55,OOO invested in. this
business, employ eleven hands at wages
averaging $45 90 per month, and their sales
of refined oil during the last six months
have been about $500, 600.
We notice that no coal whatever is used
under the boilers, the fuel being gasolene,
which is conveyed from a feeding tank,
by means of ingeniously placed pipes, to
pans in the furnaces. No danger is appre-
hended from explosion, and it is claimed
that g~asolene is cheaper for fuel than coal
because there is little if any sale for it.
The number of gallons of refined oil nan
featured in September, October and Novem-
Der, 1865, is as follows:
Gallons burning huid.---..-..~219,273i
t50,1IS3 gallons Of the above
shipped in bcnd)---".----...-.
Revenue paid..--.---...... Sec. S25,Sll 10
PIONEER OIL WORKS.
This Refinery, belonging to Messrs.
Chritchley, Fawcett Il Co., is situated on
Pittsburg street. near the crossing of the
A. & G. W, and was one of the first estab-
lished in this city. It has been destroyed
by fire twice since first erected, and only
last week the still-house was burned, in
volving q loss of 81, 500, which, however,
will soon be replaced. Besides the above
this firm has a small refinery on the canal,
the capacity of both being $50 bbls. a day.
Altogether they nave six 3O-bbl. stills, with
20 feet of eondensing pipe to each two agi-
tators, n holding l2O bbls., the other 80
bbls.; six tanks, three for crude holding
about 1,3O0 bbls. and three for refined, one
of which is iron, of the same capacity.
They employ Is hands at wages ranging
from $40 to SIS per month. They are max
ing somewhat more substantial improve
ments than other Refneries, by fitting up
iron receiving tubs, and guarding against
leakage by having their bleaching tubs
lined'w with lead.
We append the following statement of
the manufactures of the two Refneries of
this firm for the months of Sept, Oct, Nov,
1866:
Gallons burning AUDI. ....-- 1S571sI
GAS gallons of above shipped in bond.)
Revenue psid.~--~---... S24,334,5O
This firm have about $4,000 capital in
vested. Their sales for the past year have
amounted to $500, OOO, shipped mostly to the
West.
CORNING q H0oPERS OIL WORKS.
There are but two other refneries in the
city older than this in fact, their begin
ming were about eotemporaneous. 1t was
established in lsGO, and is located on the
80 TL----a-~:I : h-~I~a -4S~@-
from the R. R, depot, which is al incon-
v~enience, but the easy and cheap delivery
of coal from the canal, it is claimed, COM
pensates measurably for the expense of
carting the oil. This firm manufactured, in
Sept, Oct. and Nov, 1865:
Gallons burning fuid.-. 7O,132l
Revenue paid-.".""~.."""---.- Sl4,O26.5O
Their sales are principally for the local
trade East. The works of the establishment
consist of two 6O-barrel stills, and two
smaller stills for the working oyer of the
The residum; a large steaming tub for
the manufacture of lubricating oil
a 20 barrel agitator; iron tubs in the treat
ing house storage capacity for crude, $500
barrels, and an iron tank for refined hold
ing 400 barrels. This AMI was built by
Miller q Jamison, of this city, and is the
only iron tank with an iron bottom in
Cleveland. We believe it has been urged
against iron bottoms that they will leak
but in this instance the objection is not
valid. So
The capital invested in this business by
Msssrs, Corning & Hooper is $1,000 OO, the
works costing probably $4,000. They en-
ply 20 hand, at wages averaging $50 per
month. Their capacity is so barrels a day,
but they usually turn out not more than
fifty barrels.
HANNA, DoHERTY & cos REFINERY.
The works of this establishment are To-
Gated on Walworth run, at the junction of
the A. & G. W., and c., C. & C. Railroads.
The capital employed amounts to 100000.
are seven buildings, standing from
to 100 feet apart, and so situated that
is no danger of a general fire. The
tankage is as follows: one iron tank, 5000
for crude; two wooden tanks, $50
each, and in process of construction
an iron tank, 5000 barrels, for refined oil.
The tanks and buildings are so situated
hat pumping of the oil is not required. The
are four in number, Pr barrels each,
with 1924 feet of worm, and q GO barrel ag-
The storage facilities, aside from the
tanks, include a bonded-warehouse holding
/ ,00O barrels, other warehouse room for 200
and q cooper shop 3OxsO feet, two
stories high, for storing $500 empty barrels.
Amount of manufactures for Sept, Oct.
and Nov, 1865
burning fluid ....-.--.--- 94,405
" 1905
Revenue paid"..-"~"--"."."...-$21,s S2.2O
Messrs. Hanna, Doherty & Co. commenced
the oil business in April, 1865; employ nine
hands, at from $50 to S75 per month and
manufacture A / white, lubricating and
Parahne oils.
The Reno Oil and Land Company, at
Reno, Venango County, Pa, of which Hon.
Golueba A Grow 10 President are ahout |