The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-17
KANSAS NEWS.
Pennsylvania Oil Man Says In
dustry Is in Infancy.
Declares 1t Will Be the Greatest
Field in America.
PIPE LINE COMPLETED.
Independent Refineries Handle
One fourth Entire Product.
Millions Invested in Kansas Oil
Industry.

A Pittsburg, Pa, producer returning
from Kansas is reported to have salo
to one of the newspapers of that city
Il have spent the past eight weeks III
the Kansas field and have carefully Ia
ken in every development OF any con-
sequence. From the way 1 size up the
field it is only in its infancy, ana the
= time will come when it Will be known
as the greatest oil field ever discovered
in America. 1t is already a second
Bradford, although it has not become
noted for its gushers like Mcdonald
and wildwood. A vast region OF ter
ritory has been developed and the pro-
ducing lines are being extended in all
directions every day. Oil men in the
east wonder what is the cause of the
market going down when our produc-
ton is falling off and our stocks de-
creasing Why. if they would take
pafns to look into the Situa ton IN
Kansas they would soon find a cause
for our deprecated market Kansas ~
the aggregate is producing Dig lot Oh
oil and il also has a market The mar
ket that is now supplied with the Kan
Sas product was once nlled with FeAiH-
sylvania oil. and we are practlcaIiy
crowded out of the western market II
is true that the Kansas crude does not
make as good refined as our hlgn
grade Pennsylvania oil yet II mis- the
a
IS lessened and the market correspond
ingly deprecated
The statement that the Kansas crude
does not make as good a refined as the
Pennsylvania product is incorrect, says
the independence Reporter. The KAN
sas oil makes every whit as good kero-
sene. The only thing there IS not the
paraffine in the Kansas product there
is in the Pennsylvania crude 1t IS
commonly asserted that this oil has an
asphalt base, but the Reporter does
not believe this is true. An analysis
was examined a day or two ago ana
there was no record whatever of as
phalt. The analysis showed A per cent
kerosene and sc per cent parafflne- As
phalt oil is usually accompanied by
fresh water. paraffine oil by salt water
The writer does not recollect ever see
ing salt water in asphalt oil In the
asphalt oil fields the water from the
wells will start vegetation on the parcn-
ed desert. while in the parafnne neidS
water from the wells kills all vegeta-
ton even to the mighty oaks. Paraffine
is often worked by hand out of sedi-
ment in the bottom of Kansas tanks
No trace is found in tanks OF. say the
California wells. 1t is a pretty sale
assertion that no asphalt oil is produc-
ed in Kansas If there is, it is in small
quantities
The Chanute Blade addressed the
following communication to the Oil
City Derrick:
please furnish the information. if
you have it, as to what portion of the
crude oil product of the United States
is refined and placed on the market
with its by-prOducts by the Standard
oil company and what portion by in
dependent refineries. Also furnish the
names and addresses of the independ-
ent rehneries-"
The following answer was received
in due course of mail:
1T is impossible to tell with any de-
gree of accuracy what per cent is re-
fined by the Standard company and
the independent rehneries respectively.
As an estimate, there is probably sew
enty-five per cent of the total product
refined by the Standard Oil company.
There are half dozen socalled indie
pendent refineries here and all are
getting rich. We enclose a partial list
of independent refineries, but there
are a great many more"
The list enclosed contains the fol-
lowing.
Warren Refining Co. Ltd, War
The following all of Philadelphia.
The Atlantic Refining company. 125
Arch street.
Bosshardt & Wilson comapny. 212
South Third street
Crew-Levick company, 113 Arch
street
Delaware Lubricating Oil refinery,
Sibley building.
o. F. Eur company. 2s2 North
Fourth street
Scoheld & Teagle, headquarters
Cleveland, o. This firm also has Of
fees at Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas
City Omaha, St. Joseph. Des Moines
Indianapolis, Detroit, Grand Rapids
and Kalamazoo.
Information obtained from other
sources in a general way indicated
that not so large a percentage of the
total product was refined by the Stan
dard company. but the Oil City Der
rick is in a position to give as accu-
rate Information along this line as any
publication in the United States. 1t is
of course recognized as the organ OF
the Standard Oil company, but thai
does not preclude it from giving the
facts upon a statistical basis
The general impression is and has
been that the Standard company re-
fined only about so or so per cent OF
the product. Be that as it may, GER
tain ii is that there are independent
refineries doing a good business, and
that. too, Notwithstanding the fac
that many people believe an independ
ent refinery cannot do business sue
cessfully any length of time in oppo-
sition to the Standard.
That company is a business con
Germ. and however avaricious its man
agement may be- it is not and will no
uselessly and reckleSSly pursue
TEETH OF CHILDREN
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