The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-10


Goose Creek 100
Eastern States Wooster ----- 2.3S
Penn. ------ 400 Somerset ----- 2.oe
Cabell 273 Ragland ----- l2O
o Inionos ------ 2.12
Corning ---- ESQ I.1,aa os
NOrtn l1lihd z'Vo Princeton ---- 2.lz
South Lima 2.OS Plymouth ---- 200
Fetrolia Canadian ------------- 2.4S
Tulsa correspondent in Daily Ok
lahoman: Mr.. Requa's talk 10 the
associated oil interests in New
York, although not unexpected in
the Mid-Continent field yet brings
public and official utterarce to
statements which have been made
in private conversation and will 90
a long way toward relieving the
tension in some important branches
OF the oil industry which has cauS-
ed doubt and distress for the past
six months. SO far as the produc-
ing end of the industry is concern
ed the attitude OF the oil adminis-
traitor was made plain before he
had been in office for three months
and since the visit of Thomas o.
Donnell, superintendent of the pro-
ducing department OF the oil adj
ministrator'S bureau there has new
er been any question in the minds
of the producers as to what kind
of treatment they will receive,
But there have been all sorts of
stories as to what governmental
regulation was going to do TO the
refineries and especially to the in
land refineries. 1t was stated time
and time again that all gasoline for
JOY riding and pleasure riding, for
vacation purposes, would be cut OFF
and therefore the production Cf the
refineries taken for war use. Mr..
Requa, speaking with a full knowl-
edge of the faces, declares as every
well informed oil man knew he
would declare, that the supply of
gasoline is equal now and at all
times to the demands of this coun-
try and its allies and there will be
no limitation of individual demands.
MIR. Requa very appropriately
points out that it is necessary to
make great quantities of gasoline in
order to get the necessary quaint
ties of fuel oil for our own use and
the use OF the allies. He SAWS that
the crude is too combustible and
that the heat value is lost and
therefore it is necessary to take off
the gasoline to get the maximum OF
heat with the minimum Of volume.
This is one OF the points which the
inland refinerieS have insisted upon
as necessary to complete cOmpli-
ance with the government war pro-
gram but which some of the semi
technical or alleged oil papers have
been declaring could not be carried
out.
The whole tone of the address of
Mr.. Requa gives a note of cheer to
all OF the refineries in the Mid-Con-
tinent field. 1t shows realization
of conditions which can come only
of experience and it shows 4 grasp
OF the subject which is refreshing
in these days when experts in the
technical departments OF the gov
ernment are sometimes rare.
Producers are waiting fer their
queStionnaires so as to at once and
with all possible dispatch forward
to the oil administrators office the
desired information as to the pro-
duction, cost of drilling wells, cost
of material and everything else con-
nected with the conduct of the oil
industry in Oklahoma. This infor-
nation will be collected ard col
lated in less than one-fifth OF the
time that it usually takes a gov
ernment bureau to do the same
service,
Pipe for the line Of the Sinclair
Gulf Corporation from Healdton to
Houston has been shipped and ev-
erything is ready to rush comstruc-
ton work as soon as it arrives. The
plant of the Sinclair Company at
East Chicago is electrically equip
ped. For the present it will use
power from the Northern Indiana
Gas K Electric Company but it is
building one OF the most complete
electric power plants in the coun-
try with combined capacity of
Z,4OO horse power. High PRESSURE
turbine engines will be used. Coal
will be the fuel and the exhaust
steam will be used in the stills. In
the designing of this plant every
up-to-date idea has been adopted.
The completion of the pine line
of the Gull Company from ii Do
RADIO to Gushing makes six trunk
lines from Butler county. The
Prairie Pipe Line Company has
three S-inch lines, the Sinclair Com
pany has line connection az Cha
mute with its line at Whiting; the
Empire Pipe Line Company has a
line to Gushing; the Gull Pipe Line
Company has one to Cushing and
in addition there are short lines con-
Meeting with a number of refiner-
les at Wichita, FL Dorado and Au-
guSta.
Tie Sinclair Refining Co., expect
to start operating the refinery at
Chicago, on next Monday, March
II. The plant, built to handle 20
900 bbls. of crude daily, will handle
only 1000 or 5000 bbls. to begin