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Show BIG.l IGMT RF.TWEEX ROYAL DI TCH SHELL AM) STANDARD Utah will be the battleground for one of the biggest oil fights over staged in the United States, if tbere is foundation for the stories now-floating now-floating around Salt Lake, says the Western Mineral Survey. The fight will be between the Roy-al Roy-al Dutch Shell and the Standard Oil. The Dutch Shell is getting a foothold foot-hold here in Utah, and the Standard will attemt to uproot the -foreign corporation. It is declared that already a subsidiary sub-sidiary of the Dutch Shell has purchased pur-chased a site near North Salt Lake for the establishment of a large refinery; re-finery; that It already has made arrangements ar-rangements to secure a large amount of oil for the plant from Salt Creek, Wyoming, and from all the Independents Inde-pendents in Wyoming and Montana fields. This would aggregate sufll-ciet sufll-ciet oil supply to operate a large gasoline and by-product plant. It also Indicates a fight in Salt Lake on gasoline prices, with possible cutting of prices to far below the present, 26 cents a gallon; possibly below 20 cents to the consumer. |