The San Francisco call., 1910-04-27
REFINERY TO Begin
WORK IN THE FALL
Great Plant Has Been Built al
0ilpors on the San Luis
Bay Shore
Refining and Producing Com
pany to Develop Industry
in Every Stage

Announcement has been made that
The big oil refinery at ouport. on San
Luis bay, viii be opened in the fall As
previously told, It viii form one of the
assets OF the new Refining and Produc-
ing company, which recently took it
over. The English capitalists. who
were among the organizers of the re-
.13neFy project some five years ago. have
D. pecome minority stock holders in the
i2ew.~eoncern. The Refining and Pro-
7sucing company was incorporated for
$2E25o.ooo- 1t will be directed by
board consisting Of: J. r. Lamprecht
president; Theodore Barnsdan. first vice
president; Henry J. Crocker, second
vice president and treasurer; ). c. Yam
cey, general manager; L. A Phillips,
assistant general manager.
The new interests in the big project
are Aancey, who owns large tracts Of
timber land in the northwest and
big OIL acreage in Midway: Lamprecht
president Of the National refining COM
pany and the owner of oil interests
throughout the middle west, and Barns
dali the natural gas magnate.
While the company viii develop some
$1,000 acres Of its own oil land. To-
Gated IN the Santa Maria and Midway
uelos, II viii go into the open market
as q purchaser. This Will offer still
another outlet for the product of the
small operators. The Refining and Pro-
during company has already entered
INTO contracts with companies in the
santa Maria field While the price has
not been given out, it is intimated that
II IS regarded as satisfactory to the
producers. Some of the contracts Of
81, a,
NEXT TO STANDARDS
The refinery has a capacity of 10000
harreis a day and is second only in size
10 that Of the Standard oil company's
plant at Point Richmond.
Il IS adapted especially for the treat
snent Of oils Of IS Baume and over
Il VIII handle all the products of oil
such as gasoline, distillates, benzine
and the like. A battery of is stills has
-been installed, but the entire mechan-
ism. has been so contrived that the ca
paefty can be doubled without a very
heavy expenditure of money.
The establishment covers $50 acres
running along the seacoast and sIoping
=. TO the hills. In connection with the
refinery, a can and box factory will be
operated, the former capable of turn
fng. out 10000 double scanned cans a
day. A large machine shop also forms
z portion Of the equipment There is
n.
> Homes for the employees and big COM
.pauy boarding house have been erected
2 alg the upper levels.
WILL BUILD PIPE LINE
:. The pipe line facilities at present
: consist Of a 80 mile s inch tube run
: ming from the Santa Maria fields. It
ls+tRe intention Of the company to build
a connecting line from Midway, eX-
:. tending through the Guyana, a dis
-. 1.-@-- Cn IN F-1-g
pipe viii bring the oil from the Mid
way properties of the concern and viii
also be operated as a common carrier.
? The new line viii be built at a cost
ot approximately s4,O0O,00O. Several
pumping stations will be required. The
details have not been announced. The
ijoDds for the enterprise have been au-
: thorized and subscribed by parties in
. interest.
As a shipping station the company
= viii be able to use its own water front
age, but for the present il will employ
the public wharf at Avila. a mile away.
At ATila, on the hills overlooking the
wharf. the company owns a large tract
which viii be used for tanks. An cleo
tric line has been built on the COM
.pany's property and this may be ex-
tended TO the Avila wharf.
The contracts formerly held by the
Gracioss and the Alliance oil companies
have been taken over by the new COM
pany. These include the sale Of fuel to
the Toyo Kisen kaisha steamship line
operating between San Francisco and
the orient
ONE TRACT OF $500 ACRES
The largest single tract of oil land
held by the new corporation is the Gra-
ciosa lease of 1900 acres in the Santa
AIaria field. The Graciosa was one Of
the pioneers in this section Of the state
= and brought in some of the largest
wells California has known. 1t was the
great production on this tract that
.srought about the erection of the re-
fnery. Unable TO make satisfactory
marketing arrangements and desiring
70 await the completion of the plant
the Gracioss wells were capped. They
remained IN this condition for nearly
nine months. When opened 1t was dis
covered that water had seeped through
and had driven out the oil. For the
past two years the effort 20 reclaim the
oil has been continued. IT appears now
as though these efforts were to meet
with success. One OF the wells that had
been flooded was brought in last week
as a 200 barrel producer. Work is go-
ing forward on new holes in other
parts of the tract.
The new company has also taken
over the San Lucas oil company, own
ing $500 acres near Los Olivos, IN
santa Barbara county; the Santa Yncz
oil company in the same section, 1000
acres in Midway and options on some
good producing properties in the Mid
way district
ranged by Attorney J. d. Ledernan
The arrangements for the consolida-
ton in the outlying counties were per-
e.o+eS by Attorney J. w O'Brien