Extract from Pine Bluffs Gazette, 22 July 1957

Little Known Oil Company from Texas Opens Depot in Pine Bluffs

It has just been announced that a major new industrial facility is to be opened in Pine Bluffs in the next 12 months. ‘Ewing Oil’, with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, have been granted planning approval to build an oil distribution depot on the western outskirts of Pine Bluffs depot. Construction is expected to start in the next few weeks and will be completed before July next year.

At a press conference attended by a number of City dignitaries ‘Jock’ Ewing the CEO and founder of the company expressed his delight at the planning approval and added that this would be Ewing Oil’s first facility outside of their home state. The Texan was accompanied on his trip to Pine Bluffs by his wife ‘Miss’ Ellie and two sons John Ross Junior, known as JR, (who was home on leave from the Army in Vietnam) and Bobby.

Later at a reception held in the City Hall our reporter asked the Mayor what he thought of the arrival of Ewing Oil to Pine Bluffs and the Ewing family them-selves. “This could bring much needed new jobs to the city”, commented Mayor Hackenback, “As for the Ewing family they all seemed great people except for that JR who is a right pain in the !!!, I would never be surprised if someone doesn’t shoot him sooner or later”.

Extract from Pine Bluffs Gazette, 21 July 1958

Ewing Oil Facility to Extend Services Beyond Colorado

Jock Ewing, the CEO of Ewing Oil, announced earlier in the week that a deal had been struck to ship oil products from the recently opened facility in Pine Bluffs all the way north and across the Canadian border. He went on to say that the contract had been negotiated with Canadian energy magnate Moose Stent the founder and principle share holder of the Canadian Oil Corporation.

At the same press conference the President of the Pine Bluffs and Ceda Falls Rail Road explained that much of the extra rail traffic generated by the deal will be handled by locomotives the PBCFRR would be leasing from the Canadian National Railroad.

This will be the first time for some years that such heavy traffic will use the line north of Pine Bluffs and beyond Ceda Falls.