The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-05-06
THE REFINERY ALMOST COMPLETE
Welsh's Big Plant Will Be Ready Tor
Operation Within Sixty Days.


The Central Oil and Refining Com
pany, Limited, of Welsh, has made
rapid progress within the past few
weeks, and within the next sixty days
will be ready for business. The plant
of this company, the largest in Louis
lana, is located on forty-six acres
owned by the company and is situated
west of the corporation limits OF
Welsh. This plant is on the main
line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
with recently constructed switch into
the company's yards, and the ponce
jury of Calcasieu parish has built a
well-graded road from Welsh to the
works.
r. H. Childs, general manager OF
the company, is the moving spirit OF
the Welsh oil refinery. He is an ex-
pert oil man, both in refinery and in
| oil we'll matters. He has had an ex-
perience of twenty-six years in the re-
| finery business, and his system for re-
ducing and refining oil has been sue
cessfully applied at Taylorstown,
Warren and Cory, Pa, and it was
in CORY, in 1884. that he conceived
the idea of arranging the plant as
now constructed at Welsh, which is
modelled after the Taylorstown plant,
the one Mr.. Childs built and was in
terested in, then known as the Leader
Refinery, and subsequently sold to the
Standard Oil Company for large
sum.
The Welsh plant has finished all
their distillate tanks; also the three
storage tanks and two agitators. The
company contracted for 5OOO-barrel
crude oil tank to be completed in sixty
days, and has three stills on founda-
dations and the masons have COM
menced to brick them in. They have
finished the shipping house and the
boiler house, with two SO-horse pow
er boilers, is complete. The pump
house is already finished, and they
have eight pumps on the ground ready
to be set up.
A carload of fittings and pipe has
been received and two more cars o.
pipe are en- route and expected to ar
rive in few days, when large force
will be put to work laying the pipe
line from the oil field direct to the re
: inery.
The company has already very
! complete laboratory, with all kinds O.
instruments for testing oil, and il
} connection with the laboratory there
is at this time complete refinery or
, small scale for the separating ant
: refining of oils.
Mr.. Childs states that when finished
t this Welsh refinery will be as wei
equipped for making fine oil as an.
in the United States, Mr.. Childs ha
) personally attended to all the detail
: of construction of this plant, assiste
r by Il. Slaughter, who was his fore
/ man when he built the Beaumont re
s finery, a successful venture in tina
city, but since merged into the Unite
. Refining Company, and hence MI
Slaughter is quite equal to the cor
struction of this million-dollar plan
a at Welsh.
: This company's capital is largel
n from abroad, but there is also niue
n local money invested, as the people c
/ Welsh have great confidence not onl
;. in the oil conditions about here. b'
n in Mr.. Childs and his system of retil
1t ing crude oils.
t. The company also owns six acre
l. in the proven field, and the intentlc
@ is to commence drilling the first of
,e series of wells in the next few weel
n on this land, as Mr.. Childs and b
le directors, many of them ollmen
IS long experience, have great faith
ir this field, while Mr.. Childs personal
n does not hesitate to assert his bell
re that the Louisiana oil fields will
S. paying producers long after Southe
n, fields have ceased to be profitable.
Stoves, in both heating and coo
in0 at PRENTICE & PRENTICE