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Identifier: oilfieldsofcrawf22blat (find matches)
Title: The oil fields of Crawford and Lawrence counties
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Blatchley, Raymond S Illinois State Geological Survey
Subjects: Petroleum Petroleum
Publisher: Urbana, University of Illinois
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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h has been a large producer in this field,is said to have bought right of way for a second independent pipe-line.The Indian Eefining Company of Cincinnati and New York has over500 tank cars and 30 distributing stations, with refineries at George-town, Ky., Lawrenceville, and East St. Louis, 111.; a combined capacityof about 8,000 barrels per day. The Sun Oil Company ships by tankcars and sells its oil for fuel. The Missouri-Illinois Oil Co. operatesin St. Louis, Mo. The Central Refining Company has a refinery atLawrenceville and secures oil from its own leases. The other com-panies that make shipments from the fields are the Cornplanter RefiningCompany, W. F. Watson of Bridgeport, 111., and Rogers and Dibble ofOil City, Pa. It is estimated that the independents are handling be-tween 9,000 and 12,000 barrels of oil per day. The Robinson Oil Re-fining Co. maintained a small plant at Robinson until the latter part of1908, when it fell into the hands of a receiver and has since been idle.
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BLATCHLEY) PRICES OF ILLINOIS OIL. 167 PRICES AND PIPE-LINE RUNS OF ILLINOIS OIL. Prices of Illinois Oil, The price of Illinois oil increased steadily from the opening of thefield in 1905 to July of 1906. From 1907 to November, 1909, thedecline was gradual. The price then remained steady for 18 monthsand since May, 1911, has begun to increase. From 1905 to 1907 in-clusive all oil sold at one price, varying from 60 to 83 cents per barrel.A grading and division in price took place in 1908. The better gradesof oil were found to lie between 30 and 35° B, while that of the Dun-canville pool lies between 22 and 23° B. The Duncanville oil is soldonly for fuel. The development of the Tracey and McClosky sands inLawrence county gave still higher grades of oil, varying from 35 to39° B. The difference of gravities necessarily caused a division of priceand since 1908, oil above 30° B has commanded one price while thatbelow 30° B has commanded another. The following table gives theaverage mon

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