San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
| tactic Crude Shipments to
] East Near 100000
| barrel Mark.
lay SHIP GASOLINE
riders for Electrical Equip.
| ment Swamp Manufac-
turing Companies.
BY j. G. ROyle.
Copyright, 1928.

New York, Feb. 10.-Every avail
lie American tanker Is being pressed
10 service today 10 transport ship
kents Of California crude oil from the
hcific coast wells TO Atlantic coast
fincries ny way Of the Panama canal.
yivances in the price of eastern crude
Is place. added emphasis on the posi-
sn of the California fields as factor
the oil and gasoline supply OF the
ttiOn.
Present California shipments through
e canal are close TO 10000 barrels a
IL, an increase of 10000 in the last
o months and will be pressed to 1OO,-
10 barrels day shortly, according
dispatches received today from the
cific coast. California producers said
fay were being called upon daily to
by a bigger part in supplying eastern
sIuirements for refinable crude. They
kded that the east was facing the pros
let of a gasoline shortage next sum-
pr, due in part TO the incursiOns OF
lt water in the Mexican light oil
lis and slackening of output in the
,d-continent territory.
1, May Ship Gasoline.
\ Ealifornia refineries now are turn
( out approximately 100000 barrels
gasoline month, an increase of GO
u cent over n year ago. This in
base in production is due, oil men
~, TO the higher gasoline content of
5 from the new Southern California
Ids. Oil producers in the west now
e. asking whether the present move
,tnt of California crude to the east
III not eventually be supplanted by
.rpments of refined products.
More gasoline is reported to be in
,erage in the east than ever before, but
j falling off in the two big sources of
stern supply, Mexico and the mid-con-
4 ent field, is reported to be causing
Ixiety TO eastern refiners. In the
,Iantime two gushers with a com
| bed daily flow of 10000 barrels were
lbught in this week in the Santa Fe
srings field of California and 167
Nv wells have been started in South
VI California since January l.
Nan order for thirty S0,000-barrel
Inks for installation in California for
n Pan-American interests, is now be-
ilxas Company has just ordered %
lhks of that size to the Port Arthur
ltrict.
\ Pity the Poor Wool Men.
Nool buyers today are running
bund the ranges of the west hunt
u flock masters in distress. When
Ay find one who looks distressed they
rsue him. yelling:
N Please let us loan you money
with eastern markets almost bare of
hnestic wool, dealers are making
lenuous efforts to contract for clips
Aich will not be sheared for months
4 come. They are giving evidence of
4 lingneSs to finance the Shearing oper-
IONS of the grower provided some con-
let for the clip can be arrived at,
tordinG TO report from the ranger to-
n. Some smaller lots have been tied
i but those in control of the big
i,ips still are holding for higher prices
hn dealers are prepared to pay at
Isent.
4 Electric Equipment Purchased.
Electrical equipment COMPANIES are
ing swamped with orders. The order
n the General Electric Company by
I Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
by for equipment for 500 cars was
4 of the largest single orders ever
iced with the company.
5The New York Edison Company, the |
roit Edison Company, the American
Is and Electric Company, the Mime |
bills General Electric Company and
Commonwealth Edison Company |
] Chicago, have all ordered electric |
sbines and other equipments. These |
Sers, electrical engineers said today. !
slected new calls on central stations |,
! light and power by industrial plants, |
ich necessitated expansion.