Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Western Oil Combine. [ARTICLE]

Western Oil Combine.

The Incorporation of the Barnsdall Oil Com.xany in Delaware with $10,000,000 capital, is understood to be the beginning of a big syndicate of western oil producers and gas companies to fight tbs Standard. It will be beaded by Theodors N. Barnsdall, president of the Pittsburg, Union Gas Company, who has large interests in Kansas. Telephone operators in San Frandsc*, hare formed a union, chartered by tho I American Federation of Labor.