Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
RAILROADS FOSTERING
utah OIL INDUSTRY.
A. VI. Taylor Takes Issue on the Qies-
ton OF Universal Cry of flxor-
bitant Ereigtii Rates.

.rrhe statement that the RAILROADS
are GRIPPING local industries BY en-
forcing prohibitory rates on differ s'f''
products | wish to say Is not true, So
far as the oil business Is concerned
said a. ". Taylor, general manage o.
4 the Pittsburg- Lake Oil company
this morning and wish to state state
further that just the contrary Is me
case. Our company is now shipping
4 fye and six cars per month or OIL ana
gasoline into this city and ogden, anu INV
the rate which WAS given US by inc
railroad enables us to do this ana 10
compete with any and all Shippers
whersseever they may Pc ron, ,ana
slowsoeyer much capital they may pos
sess.'
THE company OF which Mr. Taylor
10 manager Is composed chiefly of local
Y people it owns and operates eight. OIL
producing wells in Spring Valley, Wyo-s
ming, and Is drilling TWO
more wells in the same vicinity.
1t has Il plant which cost up III l ill
hundreds Of thousands to install. and It's
wells, refineries and pipe lines cover n
large scope Of country in Wyoming
about 25 miles east from EVANS gaf
the main line OF the Union Pacific. II:
ever53there was an opportunity TO en-
force prohibitory rates, and 10 crush
out a budding local industry, 1t was
presented to the Union Pacihc rail-
road company when the Pittsburg-Salt
Lake oil concern asked 1t to make
rates so they could ship their oil and
by-products to Lis Utah and Idaho
MARKET. What was the attitudetof the
Union Pacific, which is the only rail-
road line within hundreds of miles OF
the oil plant?
Mr., Taylor continued: When went
u Mr.. ]. AZ Reeves, general freight.
agent of theSunon Pacific and Dragon
Short Line, and told him the situation
and asked him to make lis rate, THAT
we could ship our products to the mat
ket and meet all Corners. This he
did and our business in this field Is
growing every day.
t'Ehe oil plant is l35 miles distant
from Salt Lake. The railroad made us
a rate of rs cents per 100 pounds feilned
oil, and 90 cents per 100 pounds resi-
duums, and all the oil we can manufac-
trre and ship in here Is sold on the
spot. and we havesnot been able as yet
to supply the demand with the wells
we have. For that reason We are sink
ing more wells, and hope 70 greatly in
crease the oil shipments into this ter
ritory in the future Tlierc are several
other oil properties operated in the
over by oursrefinery."
Mr.. Taylor incidentally developed
some interesting points In connection
with the oil industry He said there
was no doubt Of the fact that Wyoming
and Utah are the coming oil fields Of
the United States. These two states
today present the possibility for the only
field for parafin oil products Tor. the
future, outside Of the fields of Pennsyl-
vania and O. small area, in Colorado"
said Mr., Taylor and eastern Utah
Is destined to become big oil produce
Ing section. The evidences are that
the oil belt continues southwark
around tho outside OF the rim OF the
great basin into the st. George coun-
try. Utah VIII become one of the lead
ing oil producing states in the Union,
Utah has also thAAlargest and best de-
posits Of asphalt in the world, and
some day this state will be the source
Of SUPPLY for the world on this ma
tnrial.''
Sam Porter. q member of the axecu-
tive committee of tho 3Pittsburg- Salt
Lake Oil company, also emphatically
that tho treatment accorded
the OIL company blythe railroad had been
entirely fair. They put in rate for
us which made it possible for us to
sell our oil In the Utah and Idaho
markets and today we are selling all
he oil we can possible produce. The
Is growing, two additional
wells being bored Mt the present time.
The railroads have treated us very fair
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