The San Francisco call., 1903-09-12
BUYS LARGE OUTPUT.

Great things are going on among the
oil men. but the parties in interest keep
their own counsel Certain influences
are striving hard to pick to pieces the big
combination known as the Associated Oil
Company. One corporation that belonged
to the association withdrew some time
ago. A second company's acts are now
the basis Of a lawsuit, in which the Off
GERS Of the Associated Oil Company ap-
pear as the plaintiffs. Between the As
ISOLATED Oil Company and the Standard
Oil Company the struggle for absolute
control of the California market is con-
tinuing with persistency. Wits are
matched against wits and capital against
capital. The Standard Oil Company has
just made large purchase of oil in San
Luis Obispo County, taking 10000 barrels
from the Pival OIL Company. The con-
tracts are on the basis of a % per cent
gravity oil. the price to be regulated by
TO the actual gravity. The San Luis
Obispo Breeze says that the deal has been
under way for some time.
The Standard Company will go to work i'm
mediately on the 80 0O0- barrel tank which Will
be built at Port Hartford for the reception Of
the oil. It is the intention OF the local COM
pany TO pipe the oil TO Gracosa station and
by the Standard Company over the narrow
gauge line and in cars provided by the Stand
ard.
II is pretty well UNDERSTOOD tlat THIS Ofter
. of the Standard Company is only preliminary
one and will be followed right up. In the
event of the wells proving as good as No.
Intention Of the PinaI Company to extend the
pipe line TO the beach where vessels can load
readily and without the necessary expense in
cidental to handling the output Of the wells
over railroad lines.
The Bakersfield Californian tells of the
plans of the Standard Oil Company in the
direction of increasing the flow of oil
through the great pipe line that leads
from Bakersfield to Point Richmond:
While the Standards big pipe line is car
rying a good stream Of oil continuously to
the tanks st Point Richmond the Standard
is still considering means Of increasing its
capacity and the company has not yet given
up the project mentioned before in these
columns OF increasing the number Of relay
stations. Before this is finally determined
upon however an experiment is 10 be made
on the first division out from Bakersfield
where il Will be asoertained definitely what
viii be the effect OF intermediate stations
At the pipe line camp known as kinberlina
fourteen miles from Bakersfield and half way
to Pond, the company has erected a new tank
and with the same capacity as the others on
4 the line and connections are now being made
from the main line 70 this tank With the
l oil repumped at this relay station it Will be
I the capacity of the line be increased. 1t
! is expected that the actual experiment will be
made within the next ten days and if the re-
4 suit is satisfactory the distance between the
pumping stations will be decreased by the
addition Of ten more relay plants, thus making
the distance between stations fourteen instead
I Of twenty-eight miles
SIERRA is LIVELY.
There is considerable doing among the
mining properties of Sierra County.
! Much prospecting is in progress about
/ Downieville and Sierra City.
! At the St Louis mine, four miles below
!. : : .
/ yesterday morning he was taken to a GER
tain place in Chinatown by a friend and
/ introduced TO a white man, who took him
! and five other Chinatown Chinese to the
/ big red building meaning the Apprais-
| ers' building, in which is situated the Of
flee of the United States Marshal. The
white man took them up several flights
Of stairs and locked them in a room.
/ Later in the day he took them down
stairs, piled them into hack, which con-
| veyed them TO the Mail dock. where the
same white man delivered them on board
the steamer
The Federal authorities had taken pre-
| cautions before the sailing of the Gaelic
! to discover whether any substitution was
1 going to be attempted. Officers were sta
toned on the Mail dock at the gang
plank of the Gaelic and on board the
steamer. They say that the six Chinese
who were delivered by Gamble were
| closely watched until they were locked ur
| on the steamer and the door of the room
I was guarded. The officials say also that
the six substitutes now in their custody
are, beyond the possibility of any doubt
the same six who were delivered by Dep
| uty United States Marshal Gamble or
| board the steamer and that no further
| substitution was possible.
Tom Yung was arrested on Dupont
street last night by Chinese Inspector Me-
han and charged at the City Prison with
aiding and abeting the landing of Chi
nese. Other arrests Of persons suspected
! of being in the plot are looked for to-day