they number 88,000. Then it had but 500 employees. Ten
years have added. 7,000 to the payroll.
Ten years ago the company did not own a single refinery.
Last January the ninth Pure Oil Refinery was put into oper-
ation, bringing the company’s daily refining capacity up to
15,000 barrels. Its few miles of pipe lines have grown and
branched out until they now extend 2,675 miles. It was
quite natural that Pennsylvania, “the cradle of the oil
ndustry,” should be selected by the Pure Oil Company as
he location for some of its most important operations.
The Marcus Hook Refinery, located on a 62 acre tract
sixteen miles south of Philadelphia, has a daily capacity of
3,500 barrels. The bulk of the company’s export business is
handled from this point owing to the advantageous loading
facilities and deep water frontage. A tank storage farm with
a capacity of one million barrels is operated in conjunction
with the refinery. This is the terminus of the pipe line of the
Pure Oil Pipe Line Company. The six inch main extends from
Morgantown, West Virginia, almost the entire length of
Pennsylvania. Another pipe line crosses the state from
Warren and connects with the main line in southwestern
Pennsvlvania.
There are 48 pumping stations located in Pennsylvania
in connection with this pipe line system. More than eleven
hundred miles of main and gathering lines complete the net-
work that gathers oil from Eastern Ohio, Northern West
Virginia and Western Pennsylvania.
Headquarters of the Pure Oil Pipe Line Company are
established in the First National Bank Building, Pittsburgh,
nm charge of Mr. L.. S. Devol. Export offices of the company
are located in the Lafayette Building, Philadelphia. Warren,
Pennsylvania, has been the scene of refining activities since
1888, when the Cornplanter Refining Company began oper-
ations there. This 2,000 barrel daily capacity refinery was
taken over by Pure Oil Company in 1917.
As a distributor of oil products in Pennsylvania, Pure
iI Company has bulk distributing plants at Parsons, Pitts-
WP
