Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — A $10,000,000 Oil Plant. [ARTICLE]

A $10,000,000 Oil Plant.

The Standard Oil Company has purchased 120 acres of laud four miles from Kansas City nnd will immediately begin tho erection of n great refinery, at a cost of $10,000,000. When the work is completed 500 skilled workmen will be env ployed and the oil will be pumped from Neodesha, Kan., nearly 200 milea away. Topeka is making great preparations for the semi-centennial of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill making Kansas a territory. The celebration will be pufled off one week in May.