Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-12
J.. B. HUSTON & co.

J.. B. HUSTON & co.
The Refinery Of this firm is located on
Canal street, south Of Ohio and was estab-
lished in 1864. The capital employed is
$50, 900; number of hands, s; wages paid
from $50 to SIS per month. The capacity Of
the works is seventy-fve barrels a day. The
tankage consists of underground wooden
tanks holding LOCO barrels each Of crude
and refined oil. There are four stills, one
holding 30 barrels, one 20 barrels and two
u barrels each 1900 feet of worm, and a
20 barrel agitator. The mechanical part of
the business is under the superintendent
of Mr.. Edward Mallory, whose experience
in refining and making lubricating oils
dates back to the of the oil
trade.
The manufactures in September, October
and November, 1865, amounted to 37,5Il4
gallons of burning fluid, on which the rev.
enue paid was over $4,000. The oil is sold
principally in the west and south. They
also manufacture a superior article of lubri-
eating oil.
The refneries we have noticed so far
comprise the most considerable ones of the
city, and although only about half of the
whole number in operation, transact three
fourths of the oil business at this point.
The following establishments manufacture
something like 10000 gallons per month, on
an average, taking their returns to the
Revenue department for three months in
1865 as data:
Chandler & Read,
Gardener, Myers 4 Co,
W. Poole 4 Co.,
II. Potter & Bros,
Major Smith & Co.
Short, Neil 4 Co.
H. C. Smith & Co, in three months manu-
featured nearly 2OO,O 600 gallons.
The following refineries manufacture from
200 to 5000 gallons monthly:
G. H. Bierce & Co..,
G. W. Clark 4 Co.,
Burton & Douglass,
W. j. Guild,
Lambkins 6 Langdon, s
j. H. Miller,
Smith & Lee,
j. W. Turnbull & Co.,
A brief recapitulation of the facts and fig
ures contained in former articles; in connec-
tiOn with a fair estimate of the transactions
and capacities of the smaller establishments
above mentioned, show that the amount of
capital invested in the oil business here
amounts to a little less than two million of
dollars. Over three hundred workmen are
furnished with steady and remunerative en-
ployment in the reineries alone, not includ-
ing the great number of teamsters, coopers
and other laborers employed outside and
incidentally to the business. There is stor-
age capacity connected with the refneries,
in the shape of tanks, cellars and warehouse
for over two hundred and fifty thousand
barrels of oil, crude and refined. And there
are refined, every day, by all the works,
not far from $500 barrels of crude oil.
ELECTION OF RAILROAD OFFICERS, &C.
The jamestown and Franklin Railroad
Company held their annual election at
jamestown, Pa, on the 8th inst, and result
ed in the choice of the following officers for
the ensuing year:
President-Wm. Gibson, jamestown.
Directors-A. Stone, Jr., Cleveland; VIM.
Collins, Cleveland P. H. Watson, Ashtabu-
la James Miles, Girard John S. Mccall
mont, Franklin; James Blakley, Franklin.
The jamestown and Franklin Railroad
will be completed through te Franklin by
the first of June mex. The Western DiVis-
ion from jamestown to the Company's mines
has been in operation for some time.