Show ji 16 Miles Pipeline in Texas f f 8 oo Wells Supply JL A A Gold Replacement combined mileage of all Texas trunk pipe lines utilized for forT forthe rHE r-rHE HE T THE the transportation of petroleum is approximately 3 1 1 6 miles Hinr to data compiled by the research research and p publicity bureau of I n of commerce 1 These hese include all th e Fort Worth chamber commerce figures all iI I I UI lines lintS as na well nel as those upon under conduction II I- I Inow now I h actual c I I h I. I actual contemplation Tho In fl S 1 aY or Install detail b the I 1 dst su hs be been n verified In by the nip lines departments I Ida I 01 of I petroleum producing I ct c the tUe various i n I and by b the editors and rep- rep t r of or th the I ladin oil trade j publications I OM throughout hout th nation a and nd tho and d th tM the accuracy of ot tho th map 1 W which It contains Is 13 undisputed I The h replacement Iu o of the pipe pip pipeline V of ot Texas according to the lie 1 line l e estimates a available is e t which Is h more than thA the value alue of ot th the tho t annual Texas petrol petroleum um outpUtS out- out The field storage e capacity from rom f Jill pUtS JInes systems h hf Texas pipe oj pe JI is 18 s a approximately barrell are r and I la Is sufficient to accommodate 1 date nate e to O O per cent o of the alst aist years year's rear 9 oil r production of or tho the tate state f WO 00 WELLS FEED LINES 1 The The- tAteR states pipe pip lines tap I oil lands and transport i aerS of tiC mapped I lift production from Crom over o Texas I t th hA Us with an annual output of ot nearly I II I JO barrels barrels- The They also connect I with a n network of ot tines linos reaching Into Inlo 0 Oklahoma lahoma Kan Kansas Kans lI and Louisiana t through ough which approximately bot barrels additional crude crudo petroleum are arc I p each tAch y year par ar Nearly one one- third of oC the total output of ot tho th iso United l 1 States Slates passes through h Texas pipe lines I The pipe pip tine line mileage operated It hyI liy hy j I each clI company and thA size 0 of the I various Texas lines tines Is as RS follows Company Campan Miles Miles 11 Miles Milts Miles 6 8 12 Total Gulf Gulf 3 1 i Magnolia 8 fi S G Texas lUllS 75 5 81 I Sun UD 82 6 64 61 Empire 17 17 17 76 7 76 30 35 Total ToUl 51 12 2279 It will b be he observed that the Magnolia Texas and Gulf companies are the leadIng lead lea Ing pipe line tine concerns concern operating In Texas TUBs controlling over o SO 80 per cent of or orth th the total mileage LINE MILES LONG Th Th The lon longest est continuous pipe line tine linein Inthe in Inthe the state te Is the mile Texas company line between Port Arthur and nd DenIson In addition to 0 the trunk pipe lines th there r Is a aast vast ast amount of or smaller field line lines usually known as gathering systems which arc are not Included in the tho I total mine line lino mileage Practically all companies operate more or less of ot these gathering fathering lines but their l callon cannot cannot cannot can can- not be bo shown on such a So small scalo scale ma map p. p The Tho Magnolia Petroleum company's line lino bt between twe n the fled Red Ricer and its Beaumont refinery rp consists of ot a double Inch sight line and while this company's company's com corn pany's system of ot pipes are supplied mainly from th tho Wichita county and Oklahoma fields It operates a n greater mileage than an any other company In th tho state Oilmen In position to know predict I the most active e era cm of ot pipe lino line construction conI con con- I during during- tho the next n year ear e ever er r known In the history of or oil develop develop- ment and it is IR reported that th tho maJority majority ma ma- of I th the new building will center around the fields adjacent to 10 Fort Worth Practically every bi big blK company plans an Increased mileage and some somo are reported to bl be bo seriously contemplating I the expenditure of ot several se million dol- dol dolI delc I Mrs Isis In building lines s Into tho the new fields LARGEST OIL PIPE LINEr LINE r The most colossal occurrence In the development l of ot the tho petroleum um Indu Industry try of ot the tho United States In recent years rears was U the discovery last y year ar of or the enormous petrol petroleum um deposits adja adjacent ent f. f to Fort Worth Rivaling In ma magnitude this Important event nt was wall the I QU quent nt announcement o of tho the construct construe construe- t lion tion front from the J count county fields 4 to tidewater of or the largest and longest l Pipe line e ever er r built bunt in America Into a Il L practically new and undeveloped undo field t This new nt JIM lino Is to bo be of ot twelve-inch twelve pipe and will b ba be th trip th largest t oil trunk line In the tho state Ill length will be he ZB miles s when completed anti anil Is IB to be constructed by the tho Prairie company compan one ln ne of ot the worlds world's leading petroleum Producing concerns at a total estimated cost COt of or S The Tha I e last lut legislature ll of or Texas TexaR enacted a law av making pipe lines common car car- WJ and ad placing them under the lie Juris jurl diction of fit th tho Terras railroad commis- commis Pipe Pion on pion to be directly d h by hi a line expert whose salary and exP ex- ex P ns are provided for b lu or by a a. special p against crude crudo oil production |