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Show REFINING PETROLEUM BECOMING MONOPOLY Washington. D C, Nov 14 Re-flninz Re-flninz of petroleum Is rapidly being centralized In the hands of corpora tions. according to the census bureau which today published its final 6ta tlsticB on the petroleum Industry of the I'nited States during 19u9 The induatrv made rapiu strides In the decade' ending with that year the products nearlv doubling In value and reaching approximately 5237.00u.o00. Th report adds: The great and Increasing extent to which the industry is dominated by establishments under corporate own ershlp is shown Corporations con trolled 89.1 per cent of the estab liBhments In the industry and report d 9S 1 per cent of the total value of products in J909, as compared with S4 7 and S6 U per cen, respectively, in 1904 In 1909 New Jersey led the states with the trreatest output of refined oil with Pennsylvania and New ork following In the order named. The greatest source of supply was found In the mid-continent field, In Kansas and Oklahoma, while the Illinois Illi-nois field was next in importance followed fol-lowed by the Appalachian and California Cali-fornia fields |