The Ronan pioneer., 1917-11-02
Plant at Kansas City.

Plant at Kansas City.
Probably there are few Montanans
who are aware of the fact that the
Montana Oil Company has large
plant at Kansas City, where it's va
rious oils, gasolines and greases are
compounded and packed in contain
ers for the Montana trad,. The plant
at Kansas City is housed in a two
story building, 50x120 feet in size.
The man who has charge of this work
is ]. l.. Walsh, familiarly known as
"Joe" Walsh to all the bigger re-
finers and oil men in the eastern and
central states, al especially in the
district surrounding Cleveland. "Joe"
Walsh has been in the oil business
since he was boy and is one of
the top-notch lubricating men of the
country.
When Walsh undertook the COM
pounding of oils and lubricants for
to make an exhaustive examination
erwise, of the territory in which the
products of the company were to be
used. He found that the climate and
the weather conditions on the eastern
side of the range anl on the western
slope differed materially, and that
northern and southern Montana had
some important differences in condi-
tions that made a study of their needs
necessary if oil consumers were to be
given the best results from the oils
prepared for them. This study, in
itself, required months of investiga-
ton and experimentation, but when
he got through with it Walsh had
valuable fund of information on the
subject of what kind of oil COM
pounds were best suited to the needs
of every section of the state for every
type of machinery from a motorcycle
to heavier tractor. It was then
that the work of putting out lines
of automobile, tractor, steam cylin-
der, harvester and other machinery
oils and greases began.
Oils Are Guaranteed
Believing that the keystone of sue
cess for their company lay in giving
the consumer a satisfactory product,
the Montana Oil Company made cer-
tain enough of the quality of it's prod
ucts and their adaptability to Mon
tana conditions to offer an absolute
guarantee with every gallon of oil
and every pound of it's greases sold
in the state, provided these products
are used as recommended, and this
guarantee stands.
The Kansas City plant of the Mon
tana Oil Company is located in the
heart of the manufacturing district
of Kansas City, which is the center of
the oil trade of the country on ac-
count of it's proximity to the mid
continental fields, which include
those of Oklahoma, Texas and Kan
sas. The oils sold in Montana by
the company are made from the best
selected base oils shipped from
Pennsylvania and the mid-continent-
al fields to the Kansas City plant.
There they are pumped into the large
battery of storage tanks from which
are made the different consistencies
of tractor and motor oils, as we'll as
oils for steam fabrication. After the
products are compounded carefully
with a view to the needs of the va
rious sections of Montana, they are
put up in the various sized contain
ers ranging in size from SO gallons,
80 gallons and Is gallons down to
the smaller packages ranging from
five gallons down to one gallon cans.
They are then shipped to the eight
distributing points of the company
in Montana located at Helena, Great
Falls, Lewistown, Billings, Kalispell,
Glasgow, Livingston and Roundup.
Advice Given Customers
In order to get the right oil for the
right machine, the consumer has but
to tell the "Mon-O-Co" dealer what
kind of an automobile, tractor or
other vehicle or motor-driven equip