The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-10-11

I Two relief lines by th ePrairie Oil
| a Gas Co. but increased drillings
seems to nave offset any increased
/ runs In the shallow sand district.
| PIPE line runs during September
/ were smaller than during any 9th.
/ cr month OF 1908 except August.
and the quantity put in storage was
considerably less than in previous
months for several years. deliveries
/ being sarly equal to the runs Tn
! Prairie company is putting up a
I Few iron tanks. as are also several
| producers, but the erection or stor.
| age tanks Is nearing the end and
stocks are not increasing very much
nov. W. ich may be taken for an en-
couraeing feature in Oklahoma \
careful estimate of the production
OF all districts in the Mid-Conti.
ncnt field shows los, 900 barrels a
day, the total quantity of crude oil
handled during September being
l%i,OOO barrels day.
As to any further pipe line con.
struCtion, it Is not likely that any
will be started in the Immediate
future The county commissioners
Of Washington Nowata, Tulsa and
Creek counties have granted pcrmis.
sion to the Prairie oil 4 Gas Co.
TO lay lin S, but in Rogers county
the permit is withheld on the advice
from Attorney General West,
through the county attorney. legal
adviser OF the commissioners. and
IN Muskogce county the permit is
withheld temporarily pending advice
upon a technicality. the commits.
sioners fayoring the permit. Both
the county attorney of Rogers coun.
ty and the attorney general are
proceeding contrary to the mandate
of the supreme court of Oklahoma.
and in direct contempt to that
tribunal.
\ new feature affecting rail ship.
m,nts of crude oil for fuel consign.
ment is the increase of 20 TO 80
cents per barrel, making the rate
1850 cents per barrel from okla.
homa TO all common Texas points.
which is prohibitive and stops furth.
er shipments of Oklahoma fuel to
Texas, but does not affect Oklahoma
and Kansas shipments. Refining
crude remains the same, 1850 cents
per barrel. There are still consider.
able quantities of Glenn pool crude
run into ground reservoirs. which
( IL stands long enough, loses in
gravity until It comes under the
fuel test, and will be barred from
rail shipment, rs fuel oil by the
increased rate. Railroads would
seem TO be equal losers by this
rule with the producers. The two
Texas pipe lines can pipe this fuel
oil to advantage, and Texas pro.
duccrs will also be relieved of some
competition. It seems to be pc.
culiar proposition, because the rail.
roads handle Texas and Louisiana
crude oil at much less rate Tan
they do Oklahoma crude for fuel
purposes.
The Laurel Oil Co. shipped 5000
barrels from its Glenn pool leases
to Corsicana, Texas, and 1000 bar.
rels to the Richardson refinery.
AT Sapulpa. and W. II. Mliliken ship
ped 36,5OO barrels to the Southern
Pacific railroad in Texas, and 1900
barrels to the Muskogec Refinins
Company. The Benson Oil Co ship
ped $500 barrels from it's Glenn
pool leasc TO the refinery at Paola,
Kan, c. \. Stannard OF EmpOria,
Kan, also is shipping fourteen cars
of fuel oil from the Glenn pool.
| With the shipment of -. 500 barrels
during the month 10 Texas, the Hig.
gins Oil and Fuel Co. has practical.
ly abandoned rail shipments from Ok
lahoma. q. w. Barnes shipped 10000
barrels to Texas, and the Producers
Pipe Line Co. got out about 1000
barrels to Kansas City and New Or
leans. The Haywood oil co. ship
ped 1900 barrels to Texas from
ats Glenn pool leases.
The Gulf Pipe Line Co plped II.
600 barrels day, part of It be
ing taken from It's storage tanks
The Texas Company handled through
its line about 1880 barrels day
during September, part Of whcl
was from it's ground stOrapa tanks