The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-14
MANY TREMENDOUS TRANsAc'
TONS ARE INVOLVED IN
THE FACTORY.
A FLOOD OF WATER NECESSARY
Something Concerning the Big Coal
oil Plant Of the Standard oil
Company at Kansas
City.


Ia get the 3 million dollar refinery
that the STANDARD oil Company Is
building there ready to receive the
crude oil from the Kansas oil feds
by the time that the main pipe line
t. Humboldt Is completed. Already
iiity.tivc Of the big steel storage tanks
have Leen completed and rapid prog
1855 Is being made on dozen of the
big receiving tanks. Each of these
receiving tanks will hold 10000 bar
rGis of crude oil.
At the foot OF the blur whore the
receiving tanks are being built runs
the tracks of the Sugar Creek d May.
wood railway company, an extension
Of the old Independence Air Line,
built from connection near Fair
mount park. Here are being con.
structed long lines of filling racks for
use in loading the products of the re-
lirery.
i A little nearer the Missouri river
stands the big mechanical shops.
! UtSt SHOPS are dlItdUl SiNlHS 'lll
ployment to 200 men, who work on
the material which goes into the big
. plant. Between the mechanical shops
and the Sugar Creek railroad station
lis the big intake for the water works
plant. Then comes Il series of store.
houses. South of the Santa Fc track
loom the dozen SmOkcstackS of the
thirty stillhousos. East of the still
houses is the big power plant. sur
, Their east is the acid works, completed
, ard ready for business. In the space
, between the line of stillhouses and
the big area occupied by the tank
: farm are a number of smaller buiid
ngs designed for use in the various
stages of converting the crude oil in
to the finished product. The SAINTS
Pc railroad is building a stationhouse
to- replace the box car that has been
doing duty as depot since work sc
= gan on the plant the middle OF last
March.
The intake for the water works
, plant that is to- supply the refinery
with water is also nearly finished
% An oil refinery uses an immense
, amount of water The refinery at
t Whiting. Ind, consumes, during the
, winter months. 1G 10 million gallons
daily and 25 million gallons daily
, during the summer months 1t is eSti
' mated that the Kansas City refinery
az the start, will average six million
gallons daily. This Is onC-third Tn"
! racity of the Kansas City. Mo, water
, works This refinery will not only
have il, own watCr works plant. ~
Its own electric light plant and fire
dCpartmClt. II will also manufacture
J gas for use in some of its buildings.
= The Standard Oil people will nor
talk about their plans, no" is any
| stranger permitted to enter the
, works, and cameras are barred, Sc
$ tine extent of the' undertaking can
, not be comprChcnded until one SEQ
the evidence of il. The water works
, plant is well under way: the big
powder plant is cOmnletcd and tn
| machinery installed: the oil pumping
=. p;ant is about completed. Besides
, these the mechanical shops are built
the acid works are completed
: Thee is an intricate pipe system
| under ground aad Overhcar. connect
ling the receiving tanks the condenS
lers. the stills. the various manufac
, turing plants and the big storag
, tanks. These storage tanks occupy
1.-THE larger part Of the southeast por
zion of the grounds. and. it is said,
that about oncthird of the number n
tanks have been built.
Scvrnty-nvc of the lie miles o.
Il. la. ~
sas City refinery with the Kansas oil
fl, Ids have been laid II is an eight
r,ch nipc connecting with the mair
receiving station AT humboldt, Kas
d The oil flows directly from This min
lime into the receiving tanks. whic'
l?rl located ON the bluffs on The west
Hank Of Sula Creek. Thos" tank
are connected with the works 10y (;
system at pipes stretching i'm all a.
. lr,ctiuns ahnN, and under grnunr
r This much has been finished. and h'
, Nov. she sugar Creek OH rofner'
Iw11 hr .ccpiyina oil from the kansa
. uH fields but 20 will ho six month.
thereafter before fhnhig rDin"y WI
De turning ONT his products to its fn
. Hest cau1cTv.
4 refinery can hlrdly De- said to h'
q sinai, industry. so vast b. Cos -cup
r mauHrtrIrrir-. sky uruduEs Do
linz made Besides a 81 -icfly ma1r
. rrcfurfrG u'auf there viii ho fan.Ifie
Tor maE-u. nearly every hir- o.
|mfred iu operating fhc plant Two u
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lfra refinery zfT ru0 uruin- 'hr
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