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Refineries and Pipe-lines.—The Standard Oil Company has 
a small refinery at Neodesha, with a capacity of about 3500 
barrels crude per day, which was kept in operation throughout 
the year at its full capacity. It has built a larger refinery at 
Sugar Creek, in the eastern suburbs of Kansas City, with a re- 
ported capacity of 6000 barrels per day, and which began re- 
ceiving oil early in the year. One eight-inch pipe-line leads to 
the Sugar Creek refinery from Neodesha, with many laterals 
ramifying through the entire oil-field to the south. At present, 
a second eight-inch pipe-line is building to Sugar Creek. Also, 
an eight-inch line reaches from Sugar Creek to Whiting, Ind., 
which was open for operation during the latter part of the 
year. 
Large tank-farms have been established at different places 
throughout the field and at each refinery, the largest one at 
present being at Neodesha, with smaller ones at Humboldt, 
Caney, Bartlesville, Cleveland, Ramona, and perhaps other 
places. Tanks are still building at a rapid rate in order to keep 
ahead of production. 
A number of small independent refineries are located in the 
state, one at each of the following places: Humboldt, Paola, 
Cherryvale, Niotaze and Longton. Those at Humboldt and 
Paola have been in operation the greater part of the year, con- 
suming an aggregate of about 300 barrels per day. The others 
have not yet done much refining and are small. 
Markets.—Until early in the year 1905 the Prairie Oil and 
Gas Company made a somewhat arbitrary division of the Kan- 
sas oil-field for the purpose of establishing prices. In all mar- 
ket quotations previous to this time Kansas oil was graded as 
South Neodesha and North Neodesha, with the former bring- 
ing regularly 20 cents a barrel more than the latter. The high- 
est price paid in the field was $1.38 for South Neodesha oil 
early in the year 1904. This quotation lasted but a few days, 
when the price began to drop and gradually declined through- 
out the year, reaching 72 cents in December. The downward 
tendency continued until it reached the low price of 50 cents a 
barrel for the best Kansas-Indian Territory oil during the first 
half of 1905, at which point the market rested for months. In 
the middle autumn a 2-cent advance was made, after which the 
market was stationary to the end of the year. 
Karly in the year the old-fashioned way of grading oil into 
South Neodesha and North Neodesha was abandoned, and a 
