Refinery Area

Historical marker location:

El Paso, Texas

( from westbound IH-10 exit #19A onto Mesa Street, proceed north (right) about 1 mile, turn east (right) onto Rim Road, follow Rim Road until it merges into Scenic Road, continue east on Scenic Road to Mount Franklin Scenic area, El Paso)

Marker installed: 1962

Here the huge Phelps-Dodge Refining Corp. plant, the world's largest electrolytic copper refinery, produces one fourth of the nation's refined copper.

Here, too, terminate crude oil pipelines serving the large refineries of the Standard Oil Company of Texas and Texaco, Inc.

Here also, the lines of the vast El Paso Natural Gas Company reach El Paso, its headquarters city, on their way westward.

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