Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-22
LINE FROM HERE
To KANSAS CITY
INTEKlRBAN, FOR WHICH StR-
NENs HAVE BEEN MADE,
WOULD CARRY OIL.
PLAN A LARGE REFINERY
Idea Originated With Late l.. III. iinr-
riman--Option Already Taken
on Plant and Site

An interurban electric line from
Tulsa to Kansas City, Is to be bullt
for the purpose OF transporting crude
oil from the fields in this vicinity to
mammoth new refinery that will be
erected at Kansas City, Has.
The project, it is said, is based on
the hope Of obtaining part of the
business that may be cast adrift by
the removal Of the Standard OH
companys refinery from Sugar
Creek.
A group of wealthy oil producers
of Chautauqua and Montgomery
counties, Kansas, are said to be be-
hind the project. Negotiations are
under way for the purchase OF the
plant Of the Pioneer Linseed and Lead
company at Twenty Second street and
Auncie boulevard in Kansas city,
Kans.. and forty acres of land in the
north bottom Of Kansas CITY, Kas.,
at the foot of Greeley avenue lnde-
pendence, Kas., has voted $4,000 to
assist in the interurban project
Option Sccuvcd.
In an interview at Kansas city sat
urday night Herbert II. Clark, owner
of the Pioneer plant, stated that the
reported project was a reality ana
that r. S. Morely, of Tulsa had paid
him 10000 for an option on the land
mentioned and on the plant. There
are two and half acres Of land ana
nine buildings which comprise the
plans. which has been closed several
years.
Mr. Clark said that Mr.. Morley
came to him two months ago with a
proposition to buy the land. Mr..
Clark says he is trustee for the estate
OF A. A. Mclntire which owns the plot
of forty acres at the foot of Greeley
avenue. The option. he said was for
ninety days, of which thirty remain.
The price was to be $125,000 for the
plot and the plant.
Started by Hartman.
Mr.. Clark relates a wonderful
story of how the late +. II. Hartman
planned to fight John ID. Rockefeller
and his little old Standard oil COM
pany with a project that had IS orr
gin in the Tulsa Kansas City, kas.,
electric line and oil plant
81 was sent into Oklahoma by Mr..
Hartman as his agent to plan the
fight" said Mr.. Clark. THE first
thing | did was to get leases on oil
property and then have survey
made for an electric line from Tulsa
to Kansas City, passing through No
wata, independence, Cherryvale, Cof-
feyville and following the Kansas
City Southern into Kansas City, Kas.,
entering over the Kansas City, MeXi-
co and orient into the north bottoms
of the Kansas side. A huge refinery
was to be built there with capacity
of twenty thousand barrels daily to
handle the crude oil brought in over
the electric line.
Would Operate Bargcs.
"Then we were to have barge
line down the Missouri and Mississip-
pi rivers to New orleans. Each barge
was TO carry ten carloads of oil and
all It's products. Tank stations were
to he established at Jefferson City,
St Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Nicks-
burg, Natchez and New Orleans. The
products were to be distributed from
these stations. Crude oil was to be
carried to New orleans for use on the
Hartman line of steamships. Then
the barges were to go down to ram
pico. Mex, and get loads Of crude oil
from the Hartman wells there. Then
this oil was to be towed back to
Kansas City to be refined.
IAN the surveys were completed
for the nterurban lines and | took
them to Mr. Hartman Mr.. Harri-
man died in September. 1903. y few
davs before his death | talked with
him and he said that he was falling
and that he had given the surveys
over to j. Pierpont Morgan. who was
TO carry out the plan. | lost out then
for | was not close to Morgan.
Booth Behind Movement.
"Now there is Thomas Booth, who
Ia millionaire oil man OF Tulsa and
Independence. Booth was protego
of Harriman's and believe that Nor
gan gave him the surveys and that IL
is Booth who is now behind the un-
dertaking in company with other MIL
lionaires. However | do not believe
II IS intended to carry out the barge
line part of the plan nor do / believe
that it is planned to fight the stand
ard oil as hard as Hartman would
have done had he lived.
"I was driven out of the oil busi-
ness at my Kansas side plant in 1903
when the Standard opened up on me
The plant has since been closed