Jones County, TX - History - Lueders Oil Refinery - 1939 ******************************************************************************** ***** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************** ***** The Jones County Observer Anson, Jones county, Texas Friday, September 18, 1939 Jones County Crude Oil Refined at Lueders Finished product from Avoca and Bluff Creek fields finds wide retail market Jones county gasoline refined from Jones county crude run through a Jones county pipe line from the Avoca field to the Panhandle refinery at Luerders and delivered to your car at a retail station in Stamford, Anson, Lueders and Avoca is the saga of the oil business and the Panhandle Refining company in Jones County, and has come about largely through the vision of J.C. Hester, superintendent of the Lueders plant. The plant of the Panhandle Refining Company at Lueders under present operation has a dailt crude run of 1200 barrels. Pipe line connections also bring crude to the plant from the Bluff Creek Field in Shackelford county just over the Jones county line. The plant of Lueders now employs 22 men with a monthly payroll of $3,500.00. Most of the men own their own homes and live in Lueders. The plant is locatd on the south side of the highway in southeast Lueders. The Lueders plant turns out Noxless Ethyl gasoline, Regular Ethyl gasoline, Panhandle Special gasoline, third grade gasoline, kerosene, distillate, Diesel Fuel Oil, and fuel oil. Trade territory of the Lueders refinery extends from Fort worth on the East to Lubbock and Littlefie ld or the West. The Panhandle Refining company is an independent concern. Roby B. Jones in Wichita Falls is president of the company. Other officers: G.W. Reed, vice president and sales manager; W.F. Sims, manager of refineries; J.C. Hester, superintendent of th Lueders refinery. J.T. Stell of Stamford, Texas, is wholesale jobber for the local Jones county and adjoining territory.