Whalebacks For Oil Distribution

Tíie Standard Oil company is building at Superior, Wis., two tank barges Eor distributing its oil producís from that point on Lake Michigan. They vil! be an experiment and may lead to the employnient ot tank steamers such is the company uses for it& trans-Atlanfic trade. Th'j tanks will be whalebacks, with a capacity of 8,000 bárrela eaih.