Kanotex Refining Company

The Kanotex Refining Company (reporting mark: KOTX), a regional oil refinery and gasoline distributor, began operation in Caney, Kansas, in 1909,[1] a successor to the Superior Refining Company. The company's logo was a Kansas sunflower behind a five-point star;[2] the Kan-O-Tex name referred to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas as the states in which the company originally marketed its products.

Kanotex Refining Company
Industrypetroleum refining and distribution
PredecessorSuperior Refining Company
Founded1909
DefunctOctober 1953
FateSold to APCO
SuccessorAnderson-Prichard Oil Corporation
Headquarters
Arkansas City, Kansas
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United States
Area served
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri

History

John McEwen Ames became the company's president in 1915[3] and established a main refinery in Arkansas City, Kansas, in 1917[4] which would become the base of the company's operations. While the initial market was Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, Meyer Brothers Gas Station & General Store in Orchard Farm, Missouri, sold Kan-O-Tex fuel in the late 1920s; by 1930, Kan-O-Tex products were advertised locally in St. Joseph, Missouri, by the Home Oil and Gas Corporation, a chain of nineteen filling stations.[5]

The Kan-O-Tex brand and reporting mark were acquired by the now-defunct Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in October 1953 and are no longer in use.

One Kan-O-Tex Service Station, the former Little's Service Station on U.S. Route 66 in Galena, Kansas, was restored in 2007 as a diner and souvenir shop as part of wider efforts to rebuild and market the historic U.S. Route 66 as a tourism destination.[6]

References
  1. Staff. "Identified Sites List Information: Former Kanotex Refinery (Caney)". Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Bureau of Environmental Remediation. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  2. Witzel, Michael; Steil, Tim (2003). Roadside Americana: Gas-Food-Lodging. St. Paul, MN: Crestline. p. 146. ISBN 9780760317723. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  3. Connelley, William E. (1918). "John McEwen Ames". A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. OCLC 3487917. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  4. Junge, Aspen (June 30, 2010). "Refining History" (PDF). Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  5. "A High Test Ethyl Gasoline Chosen for the Mystery Car" (Advertisement). St. Joseph Gazette. August 30, 1930. p. 12. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  6. Meyer, Frankie (June 25, 2011). "Connect with History on Day Trips". The Joplin Globe. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
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