Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-23
OIL SP[A5H|NG
IN INDEPENDENT
Line; ;T0EXPAND
Winnett Venture to Be
Developed to Million
and Half Company.
Refinery to- Be Built
at Slayton Where G. N.
and Milwaukee Cross.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Winnett, Sept 22.-The Montana
Independent pipe line vas formal,
chrstened and oil turned into the pipes
Thursday by General Manager G. w
Colgrove, in the presence OF large
party of investors interested in the
company.
But Of vastly more Importance to
Winnett and the oil fields ef central
Montana was the announcement by Mr.
! Colgrove Of the organization Of the
! Home Products Oil company, with a
capitalization of 81. 100000 to operate
| in this state both as producer and
refiner of oils
The formal christening Of the plant
took place at midday. President Pick
EFT OF the company. assisted by Mr..
COlgrove, was the master of this cere-
mony. After the formalities. the party
WAS treated to Il barbecued dinner, pre-
sided over by John Morton, local man
lager for the company
The party came by autos from
Roundup, where they left the private
car Deer Lodge" in the yards of the
Milwaukee railway. by which route the
party came to Montana from Minneap-
oils, where the members had assembled
for the trip.
After light lunch at the company
headquarters east of town, the entire
party proceeded by autos to the Cat
Greek fields. All of the principal pro-
ducing and drilling wells we're visited.
This tour finished, the party witnessed
the formal christening of the plant.
'lhe big engines were started and the
oil began its journey to the big stor-
age tanks in the field and at Winnett.
The Plant.
The plant consists Of two 50 600 bar
rel tanks, of the highest type of con-
struction, together with about 10 10
miles of 6-inch main pipe, and about
II miles of connecting lines in the field
The engines are Duplex DIESEL Fair
banks Morse, highest type. directly
connected to the Duplex pumps, capa-
bic of moving $4,000 barrels of oil in
20 hours, together with compressure
and other equipment
The company has at each end Of its
line complete electric lighting systems;
the lighting plant in the field is so ar
ranged that it will flood the entire sys
TEN and grounds, as well as the me-
chanical department and houses of thS
employees The light plant iu Winnett
lights the headquarters building. to-
equipment makes it one Of the most
modern loading stations in the United
States. capable Of loading at one time
80 cars, having double switch con-
nected with the Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad tracks. and which will
also be served by the new extension of
the Great Northern railway, when con
structed between Winnett and New
Rockford in North Dakota.
The company up to the present time
and when the plant is completed ~
Winnett, will have spent approximately
$4,000.
The company now in final stages
Of organization by Mr. Colgroye and |
associates will build modern refin-
ery at Slayton, where the Great
Northern railroad crosses the main
line of the G., NJ. & St. F.. thus Civ
ing the company fine strategic, po-
sition as to the distribution OF its
products.
Arrangements for distributing sta
tons at approximately 200 points IN
the middle west and the northwest
have been completed. and the com
pany will operate big line of tank
ears. both for gathering the crude and
for distribution of refined products.
Later, an additional 80 miles of pipe
Inc. with necessary storage and
stations, will be constructed
from the Cat Greek fields, through the
Flatwillow and, Devils Basin fields to |
the refinery at Slayton. In this con-
,ection Mr.. Colgrove announces that |
he Home Products Oil company is
wholly financed by independent finan-
,iai interests.
Members of the party, together with
Nr. Colgrove's organization. own leases
N we'll located acreage that can be
led into the new line when produc
ion shall have been obtained