The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
THE REDUCTION IN OILS.
NIKE Company Preparing to Make a
..rnnrer Fight ON the Standard.

nitric Company Preparing to Make
stronger Fight on the Standard.
,rhe nrices of oils have gone down in Sa-
..,rrah since the Dixie Oil Company be-
w., business. AS soon as the company
Uttered the field as a competitor of the
s.andard. the latter took out its knife and
began on its prices.
This was no more than the Dixie COM
many had been expectng,- and it promptly
a7uounced its prices at the same figures
- we're demanded by the Standard. Or
5.pary oil has gone down from 9A cents,
che price that was being received before
+bs Dixie entered the field, to S1a cents a
gallon.
savannah is not the only city that is
getting oils cheaper on account of the
Standard finding opposition. New Or
hams has had the biggest cut of all made.
The prices in that place have some down
a. cents on the gallon. All oils and lu-
brc8nts have had their prices cut in about
the same proportion as kerosene. Will
mington has had an agency of the Dixie
company established within the last few
days and warehouses are now being put
I'm readiness at Charleston for an agency
ar that place. 1t is expected that bust
mss will be commenced in Charleston
about Oct. 10. 49,
The Dixie Oil Company has had a con-
siderable force of men at work in New
orleans but it was cut down a day or so
ago on account of the stagnation of bust
ness resulting from the fever. Two of
the complny's leading men at that point
were sent to Mexico to represent the Dixie.
They go first to Chihauhau and from there
10 the City of Mexico
This change of the men from New Or
leans is to be only temporary AS soon
as business is there resumed they will be
ordered back. The Dixie company is rap
idly progressing in the work incident to
getting into its quarters. A great deal
of oil has already been stored in the ware
house on River street, and the upper
floor which opens on Factors Walk has
been put in readiness for the Manufacture
of the lubricants chat is 70 be a feature
Of the companY's business. TIE machin-
cry for this purpose has been received and
is now ready to be placed in position. The
only thing delaying operations is the fact
that the packages into which the lubri-
cants are to be put have not yet arrived
Both the upper and lower floors of the
company's quarters are roomy and afford
every facility for the conduct of its bus
mess Running from the lower to the
upper floor is an automatically working
elevator Tor hIClnS the barrels. This is
operated by steam furnished from a boiler
that is separated from the room in which
the oils are stored by brick work through
which it is impossible for the fire to be
communicated. The barrels, when it is de-
sired to lift them to the upper floor, are
put on a runway. They are then fed to
the hooks of the elevator, which is an
endless chain, and are carried to the floor
above and placed on another runway.
From this runway a branch goes off, and
from this branch communication is had
by pipe with a large compromising kettle
below.
A precaution against the spread of fire,
in the event it should break out in the
building, is taken on the first floor where
the oil is stored, that will give an idea of
the quantity of the stuff that it is ex-
pected will be placed in the warehouse.
The wide doorways have been bricked up
at the bottom in such a way that it will
be impossible for burning oil to find its
way out of the building to communicate
the fire to other property. This brick
work is between three and four feet in
hight.