Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-03-19
Understood That Texas Oil
Company May Tie a Few
Knots in the Tail of the Oc-
tupus in New Mexico.
$4,000 LOCAL PLANT
COMPLETE ON APRIL
Lone Star State Concern With
Territorial Distribution Sta
ton Here Is Out for the Bus
mess.

The Common Geczer has chirkcd
up. There is likely to be some ac-
tivity in oil in New Mexico in the
next few months.
The Texas Oil company with fifty
six millions barrels of oil to dispose
of annually, has entered the New Mex
leo field quietly II unostentatiously
and is out for business. The plant
of the company. just south of the city.
on which work has been inprogre So
for some weeks past, IS rapidly near-
ing completion and will be ready for
business on the first of April. The
plant which is built at a cost of $685.
00O will store from 10000 to 10000
barrels of oil all the time and will
be the main distributing station for
New Mexico and Arizona. 1t VIII be
the biggest plant of the company this
side of pueblo.
I'VE have nlrehasci land 1T Las
Cruces and Deming and will build
smaller stations at those places as
soon as we are through here" said
e.. A. Kimble, of III Paso. at the
Sturges last hight. Mr.. Kimble who
is superintendent of the southwestern
sales division of the company. has
been in the city for several days on
business connected with the work
here.
We are Just entering the territorial
field this side of Roswell where we
have been in business for some time
past said Mr.. Kimble. 1--WE expect
to distribute oil here over New Mexico
and perhaps into northern Altoona.
We also nave a station at Douglas,
arizona. The Texas oil company
makes a specially of handling its bus
ines sat the minimum of expense II
the consumer gets the benefit.
'The plant here will have every IA
cility and most modern equipment for
handling the business. We have just
finished a big station in Pueblo and
as you see are preparing to compete
for business all over the southwestern
field. The company now covers Tex
as. Oklahoma. Louisiana and Missis-
sippi territory and is entering Georgia.
Alabama and Tennessee. We are do
ing business on a large scale in chi
huahua and Sonora, Mexico, and ex-
pect to build up a large trade in the
territories and Colorado soon.
"Will there be a cut in the price or
oil here?" was asked of Mr.. Kimble.
my only answer TO that said the
lei Paso man, lis that we are now
retailing oil in FL Paso for ten cents
a gallon as against twenty-five cents
YOU nay for oil in Albuquerque now.
Last Monday the price on gasoline
and all kerosene in the state of Texas
was cut by our company two cents a
ialIon. We are in specially good
shape TO meet competition now as we
have in stock millions of barrels we
purchased during the boom for five
ana ten cents. This is crude, still to
be refined. As an Illustration of TEX
as oil company business, we recently
closed the largest contract ever made
in the United states with the Cananea
Consolidated Copper company, one
million barrels, the contract price be-
ing some two and a quarter million
dollars. We shall handle in New Mex
leo a complete line of oil and its pro-
ducts. kerosene. naphtha, gasoline, cyl
inder and engine oils, linseed oil and
.turpentine and everything else in the
way of oil. Beside the five steel stor-
age tanks in Albuquerque the plant
a stable and warehouse and
and later "A cottage will be
erected for the agent and his family.
Mr. j. r. Freeman to be in charge OF
the station here"
According to Mr.. Kimble the Texas
oil company produces fifty-six MIL
lion of barrels of oil annually, most