Evening journal., 1900-09-14
GREAT REFINERY
Tor MARCUS HOOK
New Plant Will Give Work
to Hundreds
Place Will Become One Of The Largest
Oil shipping Points in the
Country

ter when the Chester oil plant was
moved from this city OF county to Bay
Onne. and hundreds OF people who
found employment here had to take
their families to another state.
There is now an opportunity for re-
joicing, for there is TO be another plant
located here and the work OF erecting
the tanks was started yesterday below
Marcus Hook. between the State road
! and the P w. & 3. railroad. The
United States Pipe Lime Company and a
refining company. which has another
title. is the corporation that is to take
the step and the Smyth farm Is The
tract whore the operations have been
started.
There is a foreman on the ground
who says all that he knows OF the in
tention Of the company is the orders he
received at Titusyille to go 10 Chester
and supeIintend the erection Of three
$4,000 600 barrel tanks az the beginning
of new oil works. He said
that he was not posted as to the
intentions Of the company. He did not
know where they were going TO get
their oil from and did not know wheth-
er it was to boa refinery or simply a
storage plant where the oil could be
stored for sea shipment
Another man connected with the
company stated that there Was TO
be refinery ard It was to be IN cp-
position to the Standard Oil Company
That 1t was 10 be a larger plant IN IN
the one the Standard Company pur-
chased in Chester and closed a fsw
years ago. He said: There will ke
three large tanks to start the work with
and before it is finished ] will be sur
prised If there is not fifty OF them.
The men in the company are worth
millions and they have been in the oil
business all their lives. They know all
the details Of the work and the men
they Will have to fight for they have
been fighting them for % years ia the
Legislature and other places"
The president of the Relning and the
Pipe Line Company is Hon. Lew Emery.
the great fighter of the oil people and
the man who is to be an independent
candidate in the Erie district for Con-
gress to fight Joseph Sibley. the great
Democrat and Free Silver advocate, who
was elected the last time as a Demo
orat and has since turned Republican
and is the Republican candidate for the
Office.
This new plant will give employment
to hundrds OF men for some fine es-
pecially while the tanks are being erect
ed and the other works started up.
There is considerable secrecy in the
business and these who have psen III
the fights against the Standard before
know that they have to keep to them
selves The greater part OF their busi-
ness, for they will be blocked if it is in
the pcTsr Of the Standard corporation
to block them.
It will take the greater part Of the
FAN and Winter to get the tanks and
ether parts in condition for doing busi-
ness. but it is understood there is e
be no delay and while the company
property is not connected with the
river now. it Is said they have options
on land to the river front and will in
due course Of time have a wharf and
other necessary appliances for carrying
on a large business and doing a large
trade On the water with foreign coun'
tries that use the American product.
It is said there is more money in OF
at this time than ever before, because
the Standard has driven all opposition
out of the market on the sea coast
willis export trade among the indie
pendent refiners is thing fer the fu
ture and they see larg7 pl ofits in it
The Union Petro'eum Company O'
the upper side of Marcus Hook. is ais
doing a large business. This compan,
has been in operation for eight week
to-day and in that time 1t has receives
and unloaded into the large tanks. 80
cars Of Gil. 1t has shipped three YES
sells of refined oil to foreign ports. tw
tankers have been loaded AID they too
away &c 600 barrels each and the othe
was loaded with barrels and took ava
$500 barrels This is a STORAGE concer
and there is now on the ground t1nkap
FOR atoring 100000 barrek OF finishe
product.
This company has erected a whal
iHtl the river 10 the port waFdens' lir
II Is ont 700 feet and has a pipe lin
and barrel tramway to the end of III
wharf There is considerable wor
going on around this plant. Wells al
being dug around the tanks puInpr
machinery is being put in and some
the tanks for the storage Of naptha al
being covered with wood With IN a
space between the iron and wood
-Nrev9nt the evaporation due to Il
heat.
The officers are: President. W.
Bull; secretary, IT, y. WorthiRglo'
and treasurer, A. C. Woodman, all
Philadelphia.
The concern has started 4 cooper sh
and It employs q number Of men dai
and in a few months viii give emplo
ment TO a still greater number.
lock as If the old borough Of Mare
Hook is to be one of the large exp,
oil shinpins points in this count
There is now in the borough the me
ing Of three large plants and it is s;
there is millions of mcaey back
these enterprises.
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