Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-29 | Page 6 | Oil Refineries Pump Millions of Dollars into State Annually

t Refineries Pump ll lil il P Millions of Dollars 6 f Into State Annually 1 i Material 1 Increase in in Business I IY Is s Reported I b by Y Companies During In Past Year i Gas Tax Is Indicator f the industrial history of Utah is written one of the principal hen ben Lake City's two modern of oil 1 refineries be dc devoted to Salt c should L Oil Refining company compan plant at North Salt Lake and the thet I The he utah f Wasatch Oil Refining company at Woods Cross form torm an ini in in- in- in t t f th the e pmt millions of t dollars into the state annually employs that pumps i t of of workers and puts Salt Lake a City on the map as an oil and anda e me refining fn g center as W la companies les the two 1934 Daring De Id been busy producing gasoline t a e e. e 11 b. b IU ducts to m meet et the de def I d byproducts W sc i in m consumption of these dud 50 centi cent b sines has been per tt ter be i r this thi year William m of the Wasatch Oil Refining tiger 1 v said Noted Increase Is also noted by A large increase was and Utah Oil Refining company 1 figures res on n gasoline tax paid bearn bear the contention n of the two com com- t he c rut u Banks There was a substantial in in- in UJ- UJ e Ee fa n gasoline consumption ever every r month Si in m 1934 over the thc previous year show As an example in r figures the wf figures paid January 1933 tax was on gallons of gasoline This amounted to to 62 In the thc same month in 1934 gallons callons of gasoline was wed fused used which brought in a tax to the thc tate Mate cotters coffers of With the end of 1931 1934 the Utah Oil company has been doing business in Salt Lake City for a guarter guar guar- quarter ter of ot i century It has hal been twenty twenty- ears of continual progress i ti five years jears L organized in 1909 I The Thc company was jad ind cd the thc plant was set up on a quarter acre acre of leased land where a half dorm handled a few barc bar bar- tens of of crude oil daily Today the refinery occupies more acres of land has more than workers and md a capacity of 1500 reIs of crude oil daily An Invest Invest- ent nent of is represented ine in he e plant The entire western portion of the thc United States including California End nd id the thc northwestern states is served Uh ith gasoline and oil products by the tab tah Oil Refining company compan More ore than gallons of gasoline gas gas- line oline gallons of lubricating oil it and pounds of ax vax are sold old annually b by the com corn pany In addition thousands of ol pounds ands of petroleum coke is is manufactured lured and sold I i The Utah Oil Refining company u Intends to continue in in 1935 its march f of progress that began In 1909 and andro ego ro jo forward with the thc city and st state u t one cne of ot the thc officials said cne tf y Lusty Infant f The e a Wasatch Oil Refining Relining company J lusty infant of 3 years ears It was organized in 1931 by a group of local men and is still sUll owned and operated b by Salt Lake City citizens according to Mr Two products are arc manufactured by bythe bythe bythe the company gasoline company gasoline and fuel oil I The output is gallons of ot gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line and 1890 gallons of at fuel oil a I month At the modern refinery at Woods Cross CroS thirty six are given regular work and there are fifteen or twenty extra workers and other at the thc company offices in Salt Lake City The Wasatch Oil Refining company markets its products in Idaho western Wyoming eastern Nevada and as far south in Utah as Salina I The officers of the company are W. W H. H McIntyre president Henry D D. Moyle Mole vice president F. F T. T Little secretary sec sec- secretary William treasurer and manager K W W. Gilbert D. D Moyle Mole assistant salesman salesman- ager and Tom Lyon director