, 1922-05-24

01 IA aGAfUnG Oh Ln0 IDaDCt
contract that 1t building Of 4
eommoucarier pipeline from wyo
ming to Missouri. there TO connec,
with h truck pipelines leading to
whiting, Indiana. and Bayonne, New
Jersey This defense is also urged hy
the eminent partisan writing from the
standpoint. Tor at least view-poino OF
a citizen OF Wyoming. Lawyers well
qualified to express an opion assert
that the contract does not oblirate
the lessee 10 build a pipeline of com
~mon-carrier class. Any one knowing
anything about the oil business knows
no oil operator viii build n common.
carrier line OF no can build his line
r from common carrier burdens. II
the lessee cannot be compelled to oper.
ate as a common-carrier, he will not dc
so. hut will buy the oil in a restricted
market and send II out in his own
line to n better market. Sinclair is
not required to build a line havs-r
capacity beyond his own and the
government oil. II the Standard con
trolls his ~pipeline-as IL controls the
Sinclair Oil company and former Sin
clair ~pipelines-it will see to 1t that
the oil produced under this contract
takes the practical capacity Of the
line.
We are. as citizens OF Wyoming, con-
cerned chiefly with the effect of a
pipeline to Whiting. Indiana, and
other eastern refineries. The article
which called forth this paper says
that Wyoming cannot hope to com
pete with eastern refineries as long
as we depend upon railroad tianspor-
tation. Today Casper is shipping for
Export trade from 700 to 500 tank
cars OF gasoline daily. We arc either
competing successfully with the east
ern Standard refineries, or the absence
OF a pipeline is compelling the Stan
dard to refine its oil in Wyoming. /
inclined to accept h statement OF
the special pleader for the Standard
and say that in an open market with
no common ownership, the Eastern
refineries can and would successfully
compete with the Wyoming refinerics.
But that competition wouldn't lower
tho price of gasoline. There is no open
market. and there is no real competi-
ton. I realize this statement will be
challenged, and it may be smothered
or lost in n mass of figures and other
But the fact is Casper pull
ed down the immense export contract;
and the fact is Casper sells oil n
wholly outside h is
theoretically called inter-moantain ter
itory. The controlling facts are that
,anda owns the refinerfes at
Indiana. and elsewhere east,
ND a, oyns the refineries in Wyoming
n owns over 90 per cent OF
wyoming production of OIL inc
is n great n SUCCESSFUL
business organization. and ii Is not
upon any p"hilanthropic
II Is refining Wyoming CRUDE
for export in Wyoming because
I, ouyns tho oil in Wyoming ana can
eva a more economical place TO
q, Does any honest advocate
- ~ roanot dome oil contract, pos
.- enough intelligence to express
believe that tho Standard
~, aamnanv would refine n barrel oil
~ Gasne- which could be more
,heaply piped to Whiahs' ~
md refined there? How man! 80
men who for years
building up tho great reiin.
-asper believe that refinery can -
t,r,ie at present capacity wh -,
begins piping cruoe Vi. a.
How many of the men ana wone
$500 Who are building up this com
.s,,r,,v building or owning nomss'
in the refinery or getuns a.
'hood no cause of this refinery penn
- viii subscribe to tho astonishine
sn,nont that crude oil rushing Out
:, ,he state in a pipe line We feet un
will be of moro neneli'
-,sner than the daily departure "
- or eight hundred tank cars u
ro.o,iro refined and loaded here hoN
- streets can you pave with taxes
Isy;ed against a pipeline. HOW nue.
s-e.sod meat will h new fac
ST., IN Casper sell to a few pumpers
"a zinc line riders? How WIN the
nayroll Of a pipeline compare Ha,,nerv
80, Of the great Midwest Refinery
- casper7 The same is true OF uN
~ renneries at Glenrock' and n
5azan other refincries in tins
state. How many daily newspapees
I'm , n,peline support How many OF
rade and high schools VIII %
oaa5sS when the Standard can hmn
~ cosner refinery TO such part OF the
.ormal 4 10000 barrels crude cohs
In fbe intermountain states.
Where Do u Statesmen Stand!
II YOU are a citizen or Wyoming; If
you are a public servant of h people