Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-12
Announce They Have Aban-
doned the Proposed
Line.
WILL SELL OUT FOR
WHAT THEY CAN GET
Refusal to Modify Restric-
tions Is Cause Of Fail
ure of the Deal.
THE white & sinclair interests

THE White & Sinclair interests
A. will not build pipe line from
Oklahoma to the gulf; all negotiations
are off, and all plans and preliminary
work wholly abandoned.
That was an emphatic. absolute and
final statement made yesterday after
noon by Harry f. Sinclair and p. j..
White who returned from Washing
ton, ID, c., at noon.
we have been working for several
months on our proposed pipe line,
and the building Of it depended
wholly upon having the i,S0O-acre re-
strictions modified. and in this we
failed, therefore there Is nothing left
for MS to do but to abandon all
work and sell our oil" said Mr. SIN
clair.
Not standard Oil.
Il want you to make the emphatic
statement in The World" continued
Mr.. Sinclair. that at no time dur
ing our negotiations for building the
pipe line. have we directly or lndi-
rectly made any offer or received any
offer Of any negotiations with Stand
ard OH That was one OF the ques-
tions put up to us by Secretary lane.
and we denied 1t. and told him, as
The World has previously truthfully
stated. that we were putting up half
the money ourselves and that the
Dutch Shell combination OF London
was putting up the other half l Of
fered to pay for a cablegrarN to Lon
don, II MIR. Lane would send It, to
prove that we were dealing with the
Dutch Shell combination alone, and
his answer was that even II they
answered to that effect, he would not
know that Standard oil was not In
terested In the Dutch-Shell
Fell on Deaf Ears.
I'VE refuted truthfully every allie
CATION made in the kilograms of pro-
test, but the refutation fell on deaf
ears I'm Lane and Sells. We told them
the Dutch Shell combination was tn
terested with us. that Standard OIL
was not: we truthfully denied and
conclusively proved that we would
build a common carrier line; we suD-
stantially proved beyond doubt thlt
we were not attempting to come un-
der the supreme court decision rc-
garding the Uncle Sam OIL company;
we proved that we had done every
thing in our power to uphold the
price OF oil. that we made the sugges-
ton of pro rating oil runs In the
pipe line at a meeting I'm oklahoma
City on May 8, and that in compliance
with that we had built one hundred
90 900 barrel tanks-we laid every
card we had on top OF the table be-
fore Secretary Lane and Commis-
sioner Sells but they declined TO give
US any consideration whatever.
VIII Sell Their OIL.
Having abandoned the pipe line
proposition, we viii now seek a mar
ket for our oil I'm large quantities,
under the common carrier rule or
the interstate commerce commission,
and convert our oil in storage and
daily production into cash, just as
fast as we can market It.
I'VE have upwards OF $4,000, 900
Invested in oil and oil property. and
have always co-Opearted with the IN
dependent producers In every way we
possibly could to promote and pro-
tect their interests and we are certain,
had we been permitted to go ahead
with our plans to build another pipe
line. that we would. while helping
ourselves have indirectly helped ev-
cry other oil producer Had we been
able to complete our plans for the
pipe line II would have meant that
at least 10000 barrels daily produc-
ton would have been taken care Of. In
addition TO the present marketing Ia
cilitles"