Show tremendous growth of utah oil refining company enterprises in a statement to the press a few days ago john C 14 howard oward president of the utah oil refining company told of the pretentious campaign of expansion and plant improvements prove ments which now are under way and contemplated at the companas comp anys farm in the northern portion of salt lake city this campaign of expansion calls for the expenditure pend iture of many anany hundreds of thousands of dollars and will add gallons of gasoline alone to the annual output of the plant the work under tinder way will give employment to many extra men during the winter and spring months among the improvements described as being under way by president howard is the remodeling of the entire battery of six huge crude oil stills each of 1200 barrels daily capacity erection of five large storage tanks of the latest type of gallons capacity each and installation of a new cracking unit of the modified holmes manley type for distillation of the companas comp anys highest test gasoline are the main features of the big program they are very costly and call for engineering skill of the highest order the company already has two of the modified holmes manley cracking units in operation they represent said president howard the latest advances in engineering and chemistry the new storage tanks which are near completion will have the late model floating roofs which prevent evaporation and preserve the volatility of gasoline the quality that gives it quick pickup power new laboratory building and garage of lesser importance but a part of the companas comp anys comprehensive scheme of expansion is the erection of a laboratory building construction of a garage for storage and repair of the large tank delivery trucks and building 6 of a new acid testing plant of modern construction and e efficiently afi equipped the acid testing plant will have a capacity of barrels daily the new garage which will be 70 by feet and constructed ted of brick and concrete will house twelve of the huge Z tank trucks it will contain a repair shop and paint shop present indications are that it will be completed by february 1 fifty by seventy feet in size two stories high and with a full basement the new laboratory building is being erected on the site of the companas comp anys original small tm tin sheathed office building constructed in 1908 the labor laboratory building will lie be completed about the middle of january byproducts by products industry to be featured increase of the companas comp anys crude oil run will bring about further development of a byproduct by product industry which although started only last may already has attained considerable sid erable magnitude this production of petroleum coke is produced under tinder terrific heat and pressure from froin 4 per cent of the residue of the crude oil the company now is producing thirty tons a day of the coke which is high in heating value and smokeless and its manufacture gives employment to fifty men mute evidence of the refining companas comp anys rapid development in its efforts to meet swiftly increasing deni demands ands and to keep abreast of the latest scientific developments in the industry stands an abandoned still plant adjacent to the first two homes manley cracking units costly yes commented mr howard but progress brooks no barriers tremendous growth of twenty years the companas comp anys growth was even more sharply defined by burton W musser legal counsel in an address at a luncheon of the companas comp anys sales representatives at the chamber of commerce a few days ago from an investment of in 1908 he pointed out oui it t has grown until today it represents an investment of in 1908 it employed three persons today it employs and persons are directly dependent upon its operations for a livelihood in 1908 it paid 12 taxes it now pays more than a year it was then located on three quarters of an acre of land and now occupies acres its entire plant in 1908 was moved from one site to another in a single dray load at a cost of 27 it now pays more than a month in freight bills |