Gunnison Gazette | 1919-01-03 | Page 4 | Texas Oil Industry Booms

: TEXAS OIL INDUSTRY BOOMS War Stimulus Results In Development of Refineries With 278.500 Bar-r-i-.fi Capacity. Dallas. Under the spur of war, : -Texas in the hist, year has effected a tremendous development of her oil Industry. In-dustry. Today there aie In operation In this stale -CJ refineries, with a capacity of 278,500 barrels daily. They are capable capa-ble of refining double the amount of oil produced In the Texas fields last year. Fields of unsuspected volume havo j been opened and made to aid In keep-I keep-I Ing ships and army motors at top : speed. ; In the coastal region where ten refineries refin-eries are In operation, Ihe first unit ef a big oil plant on the Houston Wp canal Is nearly completed. It U Intended In-tended to have a capacity of 'JO.OOO barrels a day and represents an Invest-ment Invest-ment of from $S.000,0t0 to JfllUKHMW