The Bismarck tribune., 1925-08-25
GAS DROPS
TWO CENTS
AT CAPITAL
Three Companies Today Be-
gin Selling Fuel for 22.9
at Filling Stations
GAS PRICE WAR SPREADS
Texas and Standard Oil Com
panies Announce Two Cent
Cut Effective Today

The gasoline price war which has
been raging in the middle west today
spread to Bismarck.
A drop Of two cents a gallon was
announced by the local Texas Oil
Company and the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Standard and Texas fuel sold for
22.9 cents "a gallon at filling stations.
including the state tax Of one cent
a gallon. Tank wagon gasoline sold
at 2O.9 u gallon, including state tax.
The Sinclair Oil company, which
recently raised gasoline prices one
cent. continued to sell at 22.9 cents
a gallon, tank wagon and filling sta
tion prices.
Chicago. Aug 25.--LP)-The mid
west gasoline war between the big
oil companies on the one side and
the independents and state-ope perated
stations on the other. has resulted
in gasoline selling for as low as 1873
cents in Wichita. Kansas.
The Standard Oil companies Of In
diana and Nebraska have officially
entered the fray with announce ements
Of two-cent reductions in gasoline
prices. The Indiana company "sole
Iy to meet competition" made price
hcangcs in Indiana. Michigan. I'LL
nois. Wisconsin. Minnesota. Iowa.
Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma, North
Dakota and South Dakota.
Part Of the competition comes
from "bootleggers Of gasoline" says
John J. Mitchell, president Of the
Illinois Merchants Trust company
and director in the Texas company.
Other oil officials here say the
cuts are an attempt to eliminate the
"gas outlaw"
The "bootlegger" they say comes
from industries which use oil pro-
ducts and buy crude oil from which
| to extract their needs.
From 1873 cents a gallon in Wichi-
| ia. prices in the affected area range
/ upward to % cents gallon in Rap
! id. City, S. D., where the state main
tans a service station.
The big companies in Wichita.
, however, hold their prices at 17.8
| cents. Similarly, even with the re-
ductions. the big company stations
are being undersold by independents.
Peoria, H.. has two prices. the
| Larkin company quoting Ia cents,
| the Sweeney Oil company and the
Standard. Is cents. A local gas war
in Decatur has dropped prices from
! 23 cents to Is and II cents. Quincy,
| Illinois, motorists pay 1872 to 22.2.
The new prices in Nebraska vary
with freight rates, but the lowest.
including the state tax, is l9A cents
gallon.
The state of South Dakota. which
several weeks ago renewed its fight
against the Standard Oil company
| IND
oline at 20 cents a gallon, except in
Aberdeen where it is 20.4 and in
Rapid City "a cents. Standard Oil
gasoline in Sioux Falls sells for 2Ok
cents from the tank and 22k at fill
ing stations. The state operates
two dozen filling stations.
| Chicago's new price is 19 cents,
reduced from 2l.
| Fargo, N. D.. Aug. 25.-(P)--Cas-
oline prices we're reduced one cent
in Fargo today and no change was
made in Moorhead, Mimi. The new
filling station price. set by Standard
Oil Company stations in Fargo is
22.9 cents per gallon. The former
price being 23.9. Independent COM
panies followed with the same reduc-
ton. The Moorhead price remains
at 239.
Minot. n. D.. Aug. 25.-L0-The
price of gasoline was reduced two
cents today by both the Standard
Oil and Independent concerns. while
kerosene was cut one cent Today's
prices are gasoline. tank wagon SER
vice. 20.9 cents; at service stations.
229; kerosene 14.6.
Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 25.-LP)-
Gasoline prices we're cut nine-tenths
of cent by both Standard Oil and
Independent dealers here today. the
price at filling stations being 23.2
cents. There was no change at East
Grand Forks, MINI.
St Cloud. Mimi. Aug. 25.-(P)---
| Gasoline prices in the vicinity of St.
Cloud we're reduced two cents, eff
fective today. Tank wagon prices
were quoted by the larger oil com
panies at lS 1-2 cents and filling sta
tion prices at % 1-2 cents.