Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1903 — Great Things in The Oil Fields. [ARTICLE]

Great Things in The Oil Fields.

X There are very busy times in the Jasper county oil fields now, and every man and team that can be secured is at work. The foundations of one large refinery are being laid and another sooft will be started. Each is to have a capacity of about 300 barrels per day The Indiana Aephaltum company of Milwaukee has the one started and the Consolidated Oil Company will build the other, we are in formed. Pumping bouses are being built and 30 miles of pipe lines are i 'jc*ng*oontracted for. There is a « large quantity of the crude oil 1 now stored in tanks awaiting the ! work of the refineries, one company alone having been assessed on 7,000 barrels.