The herald., 1895-10-14
OIL ADVANCING IN PRICE
Sixty Cents Was Paid During
the Past Week
CAPACITY OF THE REFINERY
II viii Have to Be Trebled to Meet
the Demand
The Standard People Waiting to Hear From
Their Tests-nemhers of the Ex.
CAPACITY OF THE REFINERY
The Standard People Waiting to Hear From
Their Tests-r1emhers of the Ex-
change Feel Exuberant

Oil 60 cents per barrel That is the
banner price that has been attained for
sometime past and that is what it has
sold for during the last week. Several
contracts have been made at this figure
one on Friday and one on Saturday. In
the early part of the week the Doheny Oil
company closed q contract to take 16. 900
barrels from the American Oil company
ct 80 cents barrel.
There is now passing through the pipe
lines about 1000 barrels Of oil daily.
Superintendent Gilbert stated yesterday
that the full capacity of the pipe lines,
ordinary pumping, was 5000 barrels every
twenty -four hours. This can be increased
to $50 barrels per hour when The pump
ing plant at the central station is put to
its full capacity. This would be about
400 barrels for a night and day run.
There will be an innovation In the oil
district shortly. 1t is proposed to put
an engine on trucks aud then oil can be-
forced from storage tanks down to the
pumping station of the pipe line. AS it
is now it takes twenty four hours for 500
barrels to be sent down the pipes by
gravity. With the aid of the engine on
trucks il can be forced down in six hours,
thereby saving eighteen hours time.
COMPELLED TO ENLARGE.
The oil refinery at Second and Bsaudry
avenue has got to be moved ana that
very shortly. The board OF health has
declared it nuisance, but Manager Ed
wards has never been served with any
notice of removal.
However, inasmuch as all the ground
the company owns at Second and Beau
dry has been covered with the present
plaintiff is necessary to thribble its capac-
ity and another location has become an
absolute necessity, and it has been Sc
lected. 1t is on the river, below Seventh
street near the garbage crematory.
"You see," said Manager Edwards yes
terday. "the plant we have here now was
only built for an experimnt. Its capacity
is 100 barrels day. but we must handle
200 and even 500 barrels day. In short
time 1000 barrels will be our run. Then,
too, we need q warehouse. We must have
a building at least 50x150 fact, in which
to store the refined product.
1--WE arc turning out asphaltum, en-
CINE and lubricating oils. The engine
oil locomotive engineers pronounce it the
finest they ever handled. We will have
it IN use on the Santa Fe routs as soon
as their present contracts expire. Our
cylinder oil, experts tell us, goes three
times as far as the eastern product.
''We nave here IN use at this plant a
course through which the oil is put so
that we get the finest asphaltum turned
out anywhere. First we put the oil
through retort which is OF my own
invention and which was first used In
the Ohio fields. 1t separates the oil,
takes out all the water, light oils. dirt.
was distilled it awould take six hours
longer to effect this separation and the
tar or asphalium would get that much
more heat. The less heat you give as
phaltum the better it is. We have pipes
to convey as much as we possibly can Of
they are burned. We Cow have about
forty tons of asphaltum on hand"
STANDARD STILL TESTING.
The oil tests that are being made by the
experts of the Standard Oil company
have not yet been complsted. At least
that IS what the LEGAL manager J.C. Har-
yey, states. He shas received no recent
information as to the operations of the
combine in this field, and in the absence
of any additional facts, great many
oil men seem to think that the Standard
vas making a great wind play when its
agents gave it out that this field would
ge invaded by the great eastern BIZ
nation.
Secretary Cochrane of the oil exchange
is still one OF those who have suspicious
ns to the good faith of the Standard OIL
company. He still thinks that there Is
"nlgser in the wood pile, ," in SO far s
the proposition of the Standard buying oil
here and transporting 1t to San Francis
co is concerned.
THEY ARE ENCOURAGED.
The memb ers of the soil exchange are
exuberant. The tendency of matters
and things during the week has caused
them to feel joyful. Oil has increased in
price 100 per cent, fig Lring on the basis
of the highest contracts made this week,
as compared with the lowest contract
made last week. The return of the execu-
tive committee of the oil exchange from
San Francisco is looked forward to with
considerable insterest as it Is thought that
the mem bers will have a tale to unfold
that will certainly send the price of oil
bounding upwards.
PREPARING FOR WINTER.
The oil district has undergone a thor
ough cleaning up and renovating during
the las t seven days. Streets and cutters
that were formerly made of little rivulets
of oil that had broken out thorugh some
leak or which was waste oil are now in
. clearly condition. Leaks have been
stopped and waste oil has been directed
into other channels TO some miniature
lake made for the special purpose of hold
ing it.
Wherever machinery was found that
was creating nuisance by the frightful
noise it caused while in operation the
party in charge has been notified that
there must be change made and the
noise stopped. Thus has a nuisance been
abated. People living in or near the oil
district can sleep now for the reason that
gearings have been SO adjusted as to run
00iselesSly.
THESE i'm provements are all due to the
energy and activity of Oil Inspector
James Methvin, who has been hard at
work with the we'll owners and operators
persuading them to get things in good
shape for the winter and to obey all or
dinsnces passed by the council for the
regulation Of the industry. Mr.. Methvin
states that he has experienced no diff
Guilty whatever in having the oil folks
do the right thing.
The developments has gone steadily on.
There has been no cessation of operations
In any quarter. Everything looks bright
and dollar oil seems to be hand At