The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-09
STANDARD TO RErAL1ArE.
To Buy No Oil Under so Per Cent
viii Hurt Several Companies.

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Will Hurt Several Companies.
independence, Kas.. March 9--The
i knockout blow came to the Kansas
oil fields when the Prairie OIL ana
/ Gas company announced that It would
in the future take only such oil as
tests 80 degrees gravity or over. This
means the cutting off from marker
of large part Of the oil produced in
the Wayside, Havana, Cherryvales
| CoffevvilIe Drum Greek, Chanute,
Hum boIdt. Benedict, Erie. and part at
least OF the Paola field. In other
words. per cent. OF the entire pro-
/ duction of the Kansas field IS now
under the BAN In the Chanute dis
/ trict it means, SO the Prairie people
say that they will only take about 80
per cent. of the output, and As per
cent. of the Wayside field.
The order will not affect Chautau-
qua county at all. 1t will leave the
Prairie free to take practically all OF
the 10000 barrels a day it needs for
the ref1neries, if it wishes to, from the
Territory field. In the Wayside dis
trict it will put the Lyon Mining and
Developing company. the Cornick,
Turner and Love company, and Lyon
& Love, on the Taylor and Neal
farms. to sleep 1t is as knockout
drop to the Patterson Oil company,
on the Flanagan It places hors de
combat the Eastern Oil company and
the Consolidated, on the Flanagan.
It will act as a regular anaeSthetlc
to the Donnelly Oil company, on the
AIillidor and the Jackson 1t will be
a long lingering dose of chloroform to
the H. Fl. Breene oil company on the
Reece and BraVer tracts, the Arcade
Oil company on the Frost. the Oak
wood Oil company on the Mosier,
NfcEIargue & Cohrs. and a dozen other
of the companies in the vicinity It
will probably take in every company
north of the railroad at Wayside. and
it will do the same thing to all of
them. Every company at Coffeyville
Will be hit. The only hope for these
companies lies in the independent re-
fineries promised to be erected at once
at Wayside, Cherryvale, Chanute, and
Paola.
a meeting of oil men has been
called to be held in the Auditorium
in this city March IS. This building
will seat $500, and it is expected that
It will be crowded. Delegations are
expected from all parts of the oil
field. 1t is announced that among the
speakers will be Governor Hoch,
Senator Fitzpatrick Senator F. Du-
mont Smith, Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell of
Pennsylvania, Frank S. Monet of
Ohio. and possibly Congressman
Hearst of New York. This will be
the biggest oil meeting ever held in
this country.
The general impression seems to be
that the Prairie has made another of
its fatal mistakes, and that it is sim
ply Fastening the fateful day. An
officer of the Kansas Oil Producers
association states lildL the OIL HlGH are
signing up with an English concern
which proposes to build pipe line
to the gulf and take the oil to Eng
land. Some of the oil men think the
order a good thing for the districts 1t
will affect. They claim many of the
producers have been producing oil at
a loss. and that as n result of this or
der they will shut down their proper
ties and discharge their men and save
money. When they start up again.
there viii be a better price for the oil.
On the other hand. it is claimed some
of them cannot shut down and this
order means the loss of their prop
erty. as the leases provide that oPer-
atoms must be continued without in
terruption. and in case of failure the
same reverts with all the equipment
to the land owner. 1t is a life and
death struggle. and the Prairie is
playing a desperate game, such as the
Standard never engaged in before o.
J. Young. president of the Prairie.
says the company may move its Offices
out Of the state He arrived here last
night and is looking over the field