The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-28
KANSAS OIL FOR FUEL.
Tests Show Our Article as Good as
California Fuel

Neodesha. Kan. Nov. 2S.-The
Standard oil company has recently
tested the Kansas oil for fuel purposes
and finds it fully as good as California
oil. Negotiations are now on foot
with two or three big manufacturing
concerns at Kansas City for the sup
ply of crude oil for fuel In case the
development OF oil grows as IA pidly
in the next few years in the Kansas
field as it has in the last two years.
the Standard viii go into strong COM
petition with coal companies in the
fuel business OIL makes cheaper
fuel, but ii takes money to convert
coal burners into oil burners, and the
Standard viii not encourage tne
change until the field is more fully de-
veloped and its possibilities better
known.
1t took S3cu6.cCt to change the
burners Int the engines of the South
err Pacific when II changed from coal
t. oil. II would cosi the Kansas rail
roads perhaps more, because they
have more equipment But when it is
demonstrated that there will be a big
supply Of Gil for years the change is
bound to come
The Standard has served notice on
oil men to let Up on development for
a short TIM. j. IS only a BILE to handle
about 1900 barrels of oil a day now
That is the average pipe line run. But
the production aggregates close to
10000 barrels. That is if all the pro-
ducing wells were connected uD they
would supply that much. The pro-
duction in the Pennsylvania field,
which takes in Pennsylvania. New
York. Ohio and West Virginia. is
about $4,000 barrels a day So it can
be seen what the Kansas field already
amounts to. 1t is predicted by oil
men that in five years the Kansas
field Will produce more oil daily than
the PennSN lVania field. And the oil
is nearly a $ good in quality.
When the pipe line TO Whiting. Ind,
IS completed the Standard says it viii
be able to take all the oil that can he
produced 1t hoped to have the line
ready within the next ninety days. but
the Factory will be unable TO manu-
tacture the pipe in that time, so the
company says the line will not be
completed before six months. 1t has
plenty of tankage at Whiting, but
doesn't propose to tear it UP and bring
It west 1t has got about all the
tankage here in wants. It VIII add
some to the local tank farm. double
the Humboldt farm and put up about
twenty more tanks at Caney. These.
with the Kansas City plant and the
" biting refinery. viii take care OF
production of 10000 barrels a day.
The company is rushing work as
hard as ever in the Kansas field It
has set aside S25.OQO.OO to spend
here. Pipe lines are being laid in
every direction. The Standard is no
respecter of persons. Tt treats all the
producers alike It is taking their oil
just rs fast as II can with its limited
facilities. The producers are not alto
gether satisfied with the system used
in fiXing the price of oil, but that
cannot be helped.
Oil operations are now down to
business basis Most of the speculative /
featurcshas been eliminated. Develop
ment is moving southwark. The most
work III the next year viii be done in
the Indian territory It is deep drill
ing there For some reason old oil
men prefer deep wells to shallow ones
They would rather pay $500 for a
deep well than $1,000 for a shallow
one, ev 4 if the production shows up
about the same. Their theory is that
a deen well viii last longer.