The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
BIG INCREASE IN OIL.
The Standards Statement Shows Well
for Kansas.

Chanute, Kan, Dec. S.-The Stand
ard OIL company has issued its state
ment of the pipe line runs for Novem-
Der. and they are the largest in the
history of the Kansas-Indian territory
field. The amount of oil handled for
the month was 636,1s2 barrels, an in
crease of more than 35, 900 barrels
over the October runs. There was de-
Hvered during the month to the re-
fneries at NeodeSha and used for
other purposes 162, 46l barrels, ana
473, barrels placed in storage The
total stock in tanks and pipes Decem-
Der 1 was 4,626,451 barrels. The pipe
line rus for the eleven months of the
present year total 4,S47, 1886 barrels,
and this means q probable production
for the year of more than y million
barrels, as against 1,11S.000 barrels
for last year, an increase of nearly 500
per cent.
The actual runs for November
showed a daily production of PIP
barrels. OF the more than 1000 wells
in the field, less than $500 of them
are connected with the pipe line. This
gives Kansas first place in the oil his
tory so far as the number of wells and
the steady production are concerned.
Kansas has had more development in
the oil business in eighteen months
than Pennsylvania had in seventeen
years or that Indiana had in twelve
years More wells are drilling in the
Kansas-Indian territory field today
Kansas are accommodating, while they
are decreasing elsewhere. In two years
more, at the present rate of increase
in production Kansas will have passed
Ohio, which is now the largest petrol
cum producing state in the Union.
Everything indicates the continued in
crease. The production of all the
wells in the eastern states is steadily
decreasing. the decrease amounting
every year to hundreds of thousands
of barrels, while the demand for oil
and the by-prOducts of oil increase
No new fields of high grade oil have
been found to dispute the supremacy
with Kansas. There have been some
struggling pools found in Colorado
and Wyoming, but they are so far
from the CenterS of population and the
been retarded for lack of facilities for
handling the output. The great sup
plies for the next year, at any rate,
must come from Kansas.
The following are the pipe line runs
for the months of the present year:
January, 2S2.309; February. 1886:
March. S3s,273: April. 34S.791; May,
SSS.514; June. 355,739; July, sos. 996:
August, 54S.275; September. 531.611:
October, 6OO,736i November. 636,1s2
barrels.
With the pipe lines now building to
the various parts of the field the
Standard Oil company will within the
next thirty days be able to care for
larger production than it is now hand
ling The Standard has been working
night and day to get its storage tank
age completed in the various districts
and now, being able to care for more
than four million barrels. feels that
overproduction has lost its terrors In
addition to this the new pipe line to
Whiting will give it an outlet for the
surplus which has long been desired.
Prices for oil during this year have
been lower than during 1908 the aver
age being less than so cents a barrel
as against 81 a barrel in 1903 but
this reduction in price has been largely
due to the overproduction. the con-
sumption of oil in the states west of