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Show TO BUILD LARGEST REFINERY IN WORLD KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 5. The Standard Oil company, it Is said. Is to build the largest oil refinery in the world in tho Sugar Creek valley, on the Missouri, Mis-souri, ten miles south, of the busines-s center of Kansas City., where 120 acres of land have already been purchased. Surveyors are now at work on the site and it is predicted that Uie plant will be running by October next. There Is to be an acid plant, parafllne works, tallow works and various other facilities for tho manufacture of products of crude oil. The plant will, it is said, employ 1700 men. A pipe lino that will bring oil nearly 200 miles from Neodes-ha, Kan., Is to be built. |