Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-12
TWO NEW PIPE LINES.
Offices Opened and Construction
About to Be Commenced.
EX-STATE SENATORS IN CHARGE
They Will Re the Producers and Refners'
and the United States.
BOTH ARE OFFsHoOTs OF THE P. P. A..

The new pipe lines which were described
in The DISPATCH last week are beginning
to assume definite shape. For several
months the men who have been engineering
them have been lying low. All the time,
however, they have been hard Nat work
and are now ready to make their intentions
public The new lines are the Producers
and Re6ners' Pipe Line Company and the
United States Pipe Line Company. w. L.
Mellon has his line, the Crescent. more
than half completed, and is now pumping
oil to point south of Harrisburg. His line
will traverse the southern part OF the
State, having its terminus at Marcus Hook,
below PhlIadelphia on the Delaware.
The Producers and Refners' Company
goes from Coraopolis, on the Ohio, to Titus
vile, where it will join the United States.
Although they will be separate corpora
tions many of the stockholders in the one
are in the other. These two lines are an
offshoot of the Producers Protective As
ISOLATION.
Tho Producsrs' OIL Company Organized.
When the Crescent line was commenced
last fall the P. P. A. decided to 60 into the
pipe line business. Accordingly it got
$780, 600 subscribed amopg its members, and
the Columbus Oil Company was organized.
Then the Producers Oil Company con-
structed small line from the Mcdonald
field to Coraopolis, where it built -four
tanks, each of $4,000 barrels capacity, and
proceeded to do business on its own ac-
count. Tank cars were chartered and
the crude was shipped by roundabout
ways to the refneries in the vicinity of
Titusville and Oil City, but the rates were
so high and this method of transportation
so unsatisfactory that it was almost aban-
doned. Then the P. P. A. sent committee
to w. L. Mellon and tried to induce him to
enter into an agreement with that organiza-
tion to take its oil at a stipulated figure
Mr. Mellon fatty refused to negotiate
with the P. P. A. as an organiza-
tion, but offered to contract with them indi-
vidually. This was unsatisfactory to the
committee and it evidently reported ad-
persely, for there was soon quiet activity
manifested in another direction. Commit
tees were sent to New York, where enough
capital was pledged to build line to the
seaboard, or as near the seaboard as they
could get.
Couldn't Reach the Railroaos.
Arrangements were made with the Lehigh
Valley Railroad to haul the oil of the P.
P. A. at what it considered reasonable
figure, and like terms were made with the
Ontario and Western. Where to reach these
lines was the next question. 1t had been
previously decided to build four-inch line
from Coraopolis to Titusville.
Then novel scheme was devised
by one of the managers. 1t was the piping
of refined oil. From Titusville they per-
Titusville to Bradford, and from Bradford
through the northern tier counties to Green
Isle on the Susquehanna river, where they
would strike the Lehigh Valley. By
extending the lines, one of which is
to be used for crude, the other for refined,
to Hancock, Just over the line in the North
eastern corner of Pennsylvania. they would
come in contact with the Ontario and
Western. From this point they can extend
the lines to Newberg on the Hudson if
necessary.
Will Commence Building at Once.
The Producers and Refners Pipe Line
Company has opened its principal Office at
ia Fourth avenue in Pittsburg, and will
commence Immediately to lay four-inch line
from Coraopolis to Titusville. The rights of
way have all been taken from Coraopolis to
Hancock. There will be four pump stations
tween the latter place and Oil City they
will soon begin the construction of half q
dozen large iron tanks. The Independent re-
fneries around Oil City and Titusville have
capacity of 5000 barrels day, from
which they can get so per cent refined.
There are II refneries as follows: The
Continental Refining Company, the Inde-
pendent Refining Company, the Valley Oil
Works, and Wright & Fassett, at Oil City;
A. Y Ramage, and A. L. Confer, at Reno;
and Stevenson g. Co., Swartz & Co., the
National Refining Company, the Inter
national Refining Company, and Tiege &
Co., at Titusville.
The general Office Of the Producers and
Refners' Company will be at Titusville,
where it has filed statement with the Re
corder show ing that it has capitalization
of $3.50, 900. The managers are j. w. Lee,
Chairman; s. I. Ramage, Secretary and
Treasurer; George H. Torrey, John Swartz
and A. D. Wood. Messrs. Swartz and
Ramage will represent the refners on the
Board of Managers.
Another Pipe Line PROF cted.
A notice was published at Bradford yes
terday that an application would be made
on September for charter for an intended
corporation, to be called the United States
Pipe Line Company, to transport, store ard |
ship petroleum, and for that purpose to lay,
construct and maintain pipes, tubing, tanks, !
offices, machinery, and to take hold and oc-
cupy land. This notice was signed by ex-
Senator Lewis Emery, Jr., W. R. Weaver,
w. H. D. Chaplin, L. E Hamsher, Robert |
Roy, of Bradford, and Charles H. Rath-
bone, of Kane, Pa.
This company will take the refined from |
the refners at Oil City and Titusville, and |
any surplus crude, and pipe it to Eastern |
markets. Lewis Emery's refinery at Brad
ford will contribute its share to the ship
ments of refined.
These two new lines will traverse the |
whole length of the oil regions of Pennsyl-
vania.
II. W. Breckenridge will be the Superin-
tendent of the Producers and Refiners' Pipe |
Line Company. He came from Wellsville,
N. Y, where he was for ten years in charge |
of pipe line interests in the New York fields.
He expects to be pumping oil from Coraop:
oils to Titusville by November 1.