The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-23
KANSAS NEWS.
Decrease in Eastern Oil Pro-
ducts will Aid Kansas.
Standard Hasn't Capacity to
Handle the Output.
A GREAT PRODUCTION,
For 1904 Will Be Approx
mateIy 100000 Barrels.
December Runs Show Daily
Average of 23, 900 Barrels.

Chanute, Kan, Dec. 23.-The total
of the pipe line runs the first fourteen
days of December was 322, 291.47 bar
rels of oil, an average of 23,020.S2 a
day. This means that the pipe line
runs for the month viii reach nearly
100000 barrels. For 1904 the total
production in the Kansas territory
field will be approximately 5,60O,0O0
barrels. In 1903 the production was
1,11s,O00 barrels. The increase is a
fraction more than 500 per cent.
This is a new record in the history
of the petroleum industry. Since the
discovery of oil in 1856 nothing like
it has been dreamed of. Kansas has
made more progress in developing the
oil industry in twelve months than
was accomplished in Pennsylvania in
seventeen years, or than was accom-
plished in Indiana in twelve years.
January 1, 1904. the total number of
producing wells in the whole field be-
tween Kansas City and Cleveland, Ok.
was 1.4S9. There are now more than
1000 producing wells and this number
viii be increased to 4.400 by the end
of the year.
Even then the pipe line statements
do not tell the full story of the de-
velopment. While the runs in Deem
Der show daily average production
of $4,000 barrels. the actual productive
capacity of the field is in excess of
$4,000 barrels daily. The development
has been too rapid for the pipe line to
keep up with it. The PaoIa pools for
instance, have more than 100 wells and
a daily capacity of at least 200 bar
rels, and yet they are not connected
with the pipe line. Neither does the
pipe line reach large production west
and northwest of Chanute. There are
districts in the Indian territory and
Oklahoma also without pipe line con-
nectfons. 1t will be seen that the daily
average, were all the producing wells
connected, would be more rather than
less than $4,000 barrels a day.
Inc development has taxed even the ca
pactty of the Standard. The refinery at
sugar Creek and the pipe line there were
DelfeVed to be adequate six months ago
Then 1t was believed that the tank farms
at Caney and Humboldt, with hundreds
provide ample facilities. But before they
were nnlShed II was found they would not
serve the purpose. More tanks and more
tanks and more tanks were built, and as
1ast as completed they were filled. The
necessity for storage grew faster than the
ability of the steel mills to supply tanks
ranks at COrSicana, in Texas, and tanks
at various Ohio towns were dismantled
and moved to Kansas. The old pipe lines
proved entirely too small, so larger ones
were put in, and then came the decision to
put IN pipe line from Kansas City to
Whiting, Ind. more than 400 miles.
Whiting is the western terminus of the
STANDARDS eastern pipe line system. One
Gated there. Before the erection of the
Kansas City refinery all of the demand
1or refined oil from the Mississippi and
missouri valley countries was supplied
from there, but this demand will now be
supplied from Kansas City, as far as pos
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