Office of the Historian

818.6363/30: Telegram

The Consul at San José (Chase) to the Secretary of State

San José, May 22, 1920—9 a.m.
[Received May 23—6:22 p.m.]

22. The Committee on Public Works yesterday submitted to Congress a report that the Pinto-Greulich oil concession12 is not a law of Costa Rica. A copy of the report is not yet obtained.

Chase
  1. The so-called “Greulich Concession” of 1916 is referred to in official Costa Rican publications as the Pinto-Greulich Contract, from the names of the signatories, Enrique Pinto, Secretary of Fomento, and Leo J. Greulich, concessionaire. It was acquired, in 1917, by the Costa Rica Oil Corporation, of which the holding company was the Sinclair Central American Oil Corporation. See Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 866 passim.↩