VERY interesting, Bruce -
It brings a few questions to my increasingly feeble mind
:
1. Was Flank's Oriental Refinery in Denver already in operation when Lafayette Hughes first started shipping crude oil from Chama? * =OR=
2. Was Flank's Oriental Refinery in Denver the destination of the first few shipments of Hughes oil, circa 1937, before the Alamosa refinery was built?
3. Was Flank's second Oriental Refinery built in Alamosa to avoid the expense of transferring the oil to standard gauge cars and shipping it to Denver?
Also, which came first — the closing of the refinery in Alamosa or the fire? In either case, since Hughes would have had at least some oil already in the tanks (and tankcars) in Chama, would this oil have been shipped by rail to Alamosa for transfer to Flank's larger Denver facility, or at least for sale to the highway department as road oil, or would it have been shipped by truck to some other facility for refining until production was shut down??
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* See Jim McKee's post at [
ngdiscussion.net] — "Depart Chama 6:30 PM with 11 loads,
oil for Denver . . . "
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/02/2023 05:07PM by Russo Loco.