History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . pated thismove of his resourceful enemy, and in the meanwhilehad procured a tract of ten acres in the nineteenth he erected a larger plant and opened the GlobeRefinery when compelled to move from his old only did he continue a defensive fight, but he car-ried the action into the enemys territory by allying withhim P. A. B. Widener and William L. Elkins, of Phil-adelphia, capitalists, whose names were forces to conjurewith in the financial world. A charter was obtain
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . pated thismove of his resourceful enemy, and in the meanwhilehad procured a tract of ten acres in the nineteenth he erected a larger plant and opened the GlobeRefinery when compelled to move from his old only did he continue a defensive fight, but he car-ried the action into the enemys territory by allying withhim P. A. B. Widener and William L. Elkins, of Phil-adelphia, capitalists, whose names were forces to conjurewith in the financial world. A charter was obtained,plants were opened in Philadelphia, and another charterwas obtained for the Atlantic & Western Pipe Lines forthe transportation of crude oil. Docks were built on theDelaware river, and Mr. Reighard gained control of apipe line through the oil section of Washington county,these steps indicating the vigor of the new enterprise andtheir fearless attitude toward all the straining influencesin the industry. The thousands of miles of pipe linestributary to the Globe Refinery, its oil tanks on all the. Tf,^ ^ rff-tm r:r,l 5-?r>/ Eno 0/ EG mfhams t Pro ¥•
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