The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-07
OIL MARKEr QUOTATIONS..
4 Process Of Refining That
.Shouid RcroiutiOnizc industry

"rhc process. while adaptable TO
uuv prnd. NJ oil, VIII rccuvcf z" per
cont of gasoline from gas oil and
viii generate rIs enough tu largely
operate the plant said Frank li"l-
Eton. vic, prcaId.ui of the l'lIua-
dan Refining COMPANY who h1a
been putting 90 practical trst th" new
process invented by ~ Rnwre" and
which bids fair tu rcvpiuuouIlo th"
refining industry ana m1k" Dr. Ram
aye az fJmuua i'm tho annals of the
refining industry Hs Dr Burton, In
youtpr OF the burton process or
Colonel Drake, who discovered tho
first oil WDl
1t was at Detroit. during tho clos
ing moujha Of the last year. that
the fret intimation Of the new proc.
eos invented by Dr. Nhnarc. who
had called to hia aid MoHsrs lDnl
and Bris uC, the former noted uu-
gluccr with the Packard Motor com.
pany. ana The latter the inventor Of
the Briscoc car and the head ot tho
construction bureau Of the navy de
pnrtmcnt In foreign lands during thu
war. was brought forward us rcv-
olutionary process well adapted 20
bringing the Independent rcfiu"r ont
OF the almost hopeless position ho
had been placed In by reason OF the
Burton process being used by all
Standard on company rofiucrica
and placing him far beyond the dan
ger OF annihilation no matter how
strong the competition Of the big
monopoly might become
And now, aior five months or
careful demonstration with a rCu
plant large enough TO make a prac-
teal teN OF the now process. a1
against what is usually called y lab
oratory test. and with the best tech
niCal talent available. in1sWuch ~
John l. Gray. president of the
Barnsdall Refining company. nud
well known wherever oil is refined, !
assisted by not only the inventor
himself, because Dr. RamDEc hnHi
been on the Job at the Righ,nrt re-
fincry Of the Blrnsdnll Refining |
company. but also under the careful /
supervision of Frank ilplston, than /
whom there II no better practical /
reiincr in the country. the result liz
made public.
I'VE have named the new gasoline !
'super-gas' because We have demon |
strated ia tho Barnsdal OIL com !
pany's car8 that this gasoline viii |
give 25 to 30 per cent more mile !
age as | have Just indicated, and
moreover. will be able to avoid the
knocks in the motor AS the COM
bustion IL moro complete. There is
an entire absence of carbon, and the
process was discovered by Dr Ram
age, who used "A somewhat sim lar
process during the war for making
olefincs. for the manufac.dr5 Il ,X-
iloslves.
"He then conceived the idea OF
working these olofinos into satur9t-
cd hydro -Carbons by tho a iditioh OF
hydrogen and polymorizntion, which
he succeeded In doing. The fluid
produced is heavier than gasoline, +.
water-white In color and the boiling
point and end point are about the
same a. navy gasoline. Whel YOU
consider that the Burton procuss
viii c.nvert only about forty per
cent of gasoline you can understand .
the magnitude OF this dis :CVcry ana .
it, barring on the future of ;he In
dustry. The BaruSdall Refining
company has acquired the sole .
rights to the use OF this process, ana
we believe It to be OF vast impoc-
tanCe az bearing on the future uss-
fulnoss OF our refining plant"
IL is. beyond a doubt, the begin
ming of great change in the meth
cd OF refining, II Is not possible
that men like Mcssrs. Ramagc. Bcall +
and Brlscoc, not to mention the /
practical men who nre Interested at /
this end. can be mistaken In the cs-
innate they have placed on tho value |
of the Ramage process. II IL the |
greatest invention Of the age and |
will go down in history as having ,
achieved by chemistry what has
heen dreamed OF for many years 10y .