Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-20
REFINERY
Being Constructed BV the Webster
Oil Company
win BE Completed in About Two Months
sidehnck From II. & o. saw. Is He
ing Laid 20 the Works

Work is going on rapidly on the
foundation for buildings and grading
and filling for the side track at the
Webster Oil Companys new refinery
on the West Side. The foundations
are almost ready and the track will be
laid by the end of this week, when the
building material will begin to come
in and the work of erecting the build
lngs will commence at once.
The companys refinery at Tltusville
has been torn down and the material
and machinery have been loaded on
cars ready to ship as soon as the track
here is finished.
The buildings to be erected are as
follows: Pump house, boiler house,
machine shop receiving house, still
house, gasoline repository, stables lab
oratory and two warehouses, 81 by 107
feet A house on Virginia street own
by Mr. Erbs has been rented and fitted
up for the offices of the company. In
the basement of this building will be a
kitchen and dining room where hot
meals or lunches will be served to the
men. The entire plant is located on 8
acres of land lying on both sides of
Virginia street, between the railroad
track and the hio river.
For convenience in receiving oil
and other materials used, and in ship
ping the product, the buildings are ar
ranged conveniently near the side
track, which extends through the
grounds for over nine hundred feet.
The two large warehouses will be built
one on either side of the track and
from one of ne warehouses a covered
runway, 800 feet long, eight feet wide
and IL feet high, is being constructed
to the river front. This will pass under
Virginia street and will afford the
company excellent shipping facilities
by river.
The refinery will be the same in
many respects as that at Titusville but
great many improvements will be
added. The company is capitalized at
$1,000 The refinery will be capable
of handling 10000 barrels of crude oil
per month, and in addition 5000 bar
rels of gasoline if enough naptha can
be procured. The works will be so ar
ranged thta additions can be made TO
che running capacity at any time with
out interfering with the work of the
refinery or changing the buildings
which will be erected first. The re-
fnery will be so equipped and the ad-
vantages for securing good crude oil
are such that a superior quality of re-
fined oil will be produced. Mr.. Web
ster says it is a we'll known fact that
Marietta oil is better for refining pur-
poses than any other oil in the United
States.
About thirty men will be employed
when the refinery is first ready for
business, but the number will be large
ly increased later on. The buildings
will be completed, machinery placed
and refinery running before two
months have elapsed.
Mr. Webster, who is the leading
stockholder in the concern, is here su-
perintending the work of construction,
and will remain here after the refinery
is erected. He is gentleman of ex-
tensive experience in the business of
refining oil, independently, and he has
succeeded in spite of many efforts to
run him out of business. He says he
has come to Marietta to stay and will
stay as long as the people stand by
him in his work of operating an indie
pendent refinery.