| Show TEXAS COPA COMPANY WY TO ENTER UTAH fiELD I Installation of Service I Stations Expected at Early Date as Result of i Decision to Expand I PRICE DROPS TO 19 CENTS IN L. L A. A Seattle and San Francisco r- r rAlso Also Benefit by Reason of Reduction While S. S L. L Motorists Pay 27 2 27 I r The Salt Lake and Intermountain r t gasoline sol ne market is so good that it I has attracted the attention of the Texas Oil company a a. large Southern South South- era ern refining and distributing concern concern concern con con- cern which Is going to enter this field at once The company at the present time Is represented as far west as Denver but this year expects expects ex ox- to extend its operations to In Include Include In- In clude dude Salt Lake City and Ogden and perhaps other parts of the state The formal action looking to the establishment of stations in this city was taken at the annual ing of the corporation at Houston Tex last month at which time the management of ot the corporation was authorized to expend between 3 and for the In Installations installations in- in west of ot Denver Statements sent to Salt Lake business men summarize the plans which the company is making for service station installation here and which it is expected may have havea a very distinct effect upon the tle prices which the Utah motorist Is compelled com corn to pay for gasoline A representative representative rep rep- from the Texas company is expected here within the next day or two to com complete lete the arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments on a number of service station station station sta sta- tion sites which are declared to be already under option COAST PRICES DROP t Yeste Yesterday day dispatches from the 1 coast told of ot a cent 19 price for gasoline In San Francisco This was explained by C. C A A. Thurman of ot the Continental Oil com company any and by H. H B. B Caldwell Caidwell traffic manager of th the Independent Gasoline and Oil company as bein- bein due flue to a fight b between tween the retailers in San Fran Fran- cisco Neither thought the fight would have any effect whatever on the cent 30 high test or 27 cent regular gasoline prices paid by Salt Sait Lakers Today Toda gasoline took a tumble to 17 cents in Los Angeles this being the answer of ot the Independent re refiners refiners re- re finers of that region to the cent 19 San Francisco price initiated yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- by the Standard Oil Company Company Com Corn pany of California At the same time gasoline was dropped to 21 cents In Seattle or 9 cents under the Salt Lake City price Los Lo's Angeles Is now 13 cents under Salt Lake An Interesting angle of the coast situation Is that some of the gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line consumed there comes from re refineries refineries re- re refineries fineries In Casper Wyo It takes approximately G 6 cents freight to ship a gallon of gasoline to San Francisco from Casper the same rate applying appling to Los Angeles The 1 interesting thing is that such auth shipments shipments ship ship- ments meats of gasoline en route Toute to San l Francisco would pass through Ogden Ogi Og Og- Og- Og i den where here the retail price of gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line is the same as it Is 13 in Salt Lake City That Is is gasoline sells retail retail re- re tail tall in Ogden for 80 30 cents pet per gallon while tank cars of it goes goe through the gateway en route tc the coast where It sells for l i U cen cents ts L. L A. A SOURCE NOT HOT KNOWN WN While It is not known whether II Los Angeles gets any gasoline from froni Casper such shipments if It made would go through Salt Lake City tc vo h T nn th the tha coast rast on today's today market t ak-t at 17 cents against the I cent 30 price nere Gasoline sold in Seat Seattle tIe re reaches aches California there very ven largely from points though there is some that comes from the Wyoming field The Theall Theall Theall all rail rate from San Francisco to Seattle In tank cars Us lis 44 cents gallon and from Casper to Se SeI Seattle Seattle Se- Se per attle attIc in tank cars the tho rate is 7 I cents Per gallon Thero There is a boat II rate rato from San Francisco to Seattie Seattle Seat Seat- I tIe tle which amounts to cents per gallon either Casper CasperI gaThe The distance from Seattle Is far tar or San an Francisco to tu I greater than is either point from Salt Lake City Gasoline sold in Salt Lake City Is made in Salt Lake City from crude oil largely from the Wyoming fields shipped to Salt Lake on an average per gal Ion lon rate The gasoline shipped in by the Independent Gasoline and Oil OH company compan officials of that company state comes from Parko Wyo on a cent rate contrasted with the cent 2 crude oil oU rate However however However How How- ever the Independent company sells for the same prices as does the local competition Both the Independent and the Continental companies say they are governed by Denver prices and both this morning said that there is no change in Denver that none is expected expected ex expected ex- ex and that Salt Lake prices will likely remain the same no I matter what may happen on the coast Denver gasoline goes to that point from Florence Colo Cob while the local product Is made here SEATTLE Wash Vash April Gas 11 Jas Gas Gasoline oline was cut 1 I cent a gall gallon n here hero today and distillate half haIfa a cent The Tue new of ot gasoline I is 21 cents th the Jeamo amo ame as it was in 1918 One year ago sold for tor 25 cents a gallon here An Increase In a tax tat by the state will add 1 cent to the price July 1 LOS A ANGELES GELES April 11 The The X- X cent cut In the price of ot gasoline to tol l 19 II cents a a. gallon announced by bythe bythe bythe the Standard Oil Company of California Call Call- fornia tornia was answered here today by Independent refiners with a drop to 17 cents cente This a a. total reduction of 2 cents a gallon by the Independent group since larch Llarch 27 |
