A Home Owned Industry
Topic: Resources
We are extremely proud of our new service station which will be opened in the near future as soon as new highway construction is completed. This station marks the continuing effort of this industry to keep abreast of the needs of the community, not only serving the motoring public, but providing all kinds of fuel oiols for ever expanding needs.
The C & H Refinery was established in 1933 when there was only one oil-burning furnace in Lusk. Today hundreds of homes and businesses are heated by oil from our plant. Our refinery utilizes crude oil from the Lance Creek oil field which is piped directly to our plant. We have an annual production of some 600,000 gallons of white gasoline, as well as 360,000 gallons of No.1 fuel oil, 140,000 gallons of No.2 fuel oil, besides kerosene and Hot Shot tractor fuel. There has been an increasing use of residue. A large portion of our gasoline is marketed in western Nebraska. Three trucks are used to deliver gasoline and fuels throughout this county. Then besides providing a necessary service to the community, this industry provides a living for five families and thus further contributes to community welfare.

(This was a large advertisement in the Lusk Herald, 1956, May 24. A photo showed the new gas station with the brand name: "Frontier" on its signpost and three glass globe topped gas pumps. The Frontier brand is still in business. I saw a Frontier branded station/convenience store in Newcastle, WY, in June '05)