The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

obtains in Kansas more than $3.50. 600
has been saved for the people of that
state.
But it is not alone in the saving Of
actual money that the independent re-
finer has conferred a benefit on the
state. A better grade of oil is being
sold in Kansas and those sections Of
Missouri where there IS competition
than was ever sold before. The inde-
pendent reflner has forced the Stand
ard to put out its very best grade OF
oil. Besides all this the Independent
refineries have taken from the mar
ket hundreds of thousands of barrels
of crude oil and have relieved the pres
sure to that extent. The present ca
pacity of the ten reflneries in opera
ton IS close to 5000 barrels daily. This
is more than one-third of the daily
crude oil production Of the state of
Kansas alone. As all of the refineries
are gradually increasing their capacity
and as there are three more in process
of construction the total daily fakIngs
of the plant will run to 5000 barrels
daily before winter.
The plant at Atchison is as large as
any independent plant in the state and
when running full time viii have ca
pacity Of 200 barrels per day second
only to the output of the Standard re-
hnery at NeOdesha. It covers SO acres
Of ground and will be connected with
the oil fields in Kansas and the terri
tories by a pipe line more than half of
which is in the ground. This viii be
the longest Independent pipe line west
of the Allegheny mountains and the
longest line owned by a single independ-
ent corporation in the United States.
BY an increase in its capital stock and
an amendment to its charter the largest
Independent refining company in the
west, the National Refining company,
of Cleveland, O., has announced that it
is going to construct at once a 5000
barrel refinery in the Kansas oil field.
The company secured an option on
forty acres of land at Cofeyville some
time ago and has an option on one of
the largest producing properties in
Chautauqua county. This company has
been doing business in Kansas for
years, having stations at Topeka and
Wichita with division headquarters at
Kansas city With this company in the
field the Independent refneries will take
two-thirds Of the product of Kansas
wells and make the producers almost III
dependent of the Standard. In addition
there are now plants building at Cha
mute which will run the grand total of
Independent reflneries to be in operation
by January I up to twelve. There is also
a plant going in at Tulsa, I. T., by the
Uncle Sam people.
Up to this time the independent REIN
cries have limited their output to kero-
sene, gasoline and fuel oils or distiIlates.
But now, that the trade in these grades
is established lubricating and paraffine
plants are being put in. The Paola
plant is making several grades Of wakes
and the plants at Atchison and Erie
will have full equipment to make var
ious by-produets. This will give the in
dependent q wider market in that they
can compete with the Standard on all
grads of engine oils. cylinder stocks,
car oils black oils and the like The
prices Of these by-products have not
been reduced in the ratio that the price
Of kerosene has been reduced and the
entry of the independents into this line
means further saving
The establishment of the independent
reffneries has brought millions of dol
lars to the state. The actual cost of the
plants is more than one million $alIars
and the equipment such as pipe Naes
and tank cars run nearly two million
more. IN addition the money brought
into the state for the oil sold in Mis-
souri, and the territories which former
~ went to 26 Broadway amounts to
nearly half a million per year. AS evil
dence of the cost Of equipment the pine
line from the oil fields to the Atehlson
plant represents a cash outlay OF $500
600 when the line is completed. And
tank car costs $1,000 cash az the fac
tory