Sketches in Crude-oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum Development in All Parts of the GlobeJ.J. McLaurin, 1896 - 406 páginas |
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... hundred to twelve - hundred feet in depth , one yielding for a few weeks one - thousand gallons daily . The total pumped from ten wells during the year was a quarter - million gallons ; and in 1884 the com- pany had to suspend payment ...
... hundred to twelve - hundred feet in depth , one yielding for a few weeks one - thousand gallons daily . The total pumped from ten wells during the year was a quarter - million gallons ; and in 1884 the com- pany had to suspend payment ...
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... hundred miles westward , have revealed vast deposits of petroleum . Hundreds of wells have been drilled , some flowing one - hundred - thousand barrels a day ! Nobel Brothers ' No. 50 , which commenced to spout in 1886 , kept a stream ...
... hundred miles westward , have revealed vast deposits of petroleum . Hundreds of wells have been drilled , some flowing one - hundred - thousand barrels a day ! Nobel Brothers ' No. 50 , which commenced to spout in 1886 , kept a stream ...
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... hundred - millions . It is just as easy to say five - hundred - million dollars as five- hundred - million grains of sand , but the possibilities of such a sum of money afford material for endless flights of the imagination . Thirty ...
... hundred - millions . It is just as easy to say five - hundred - million dollars as five- hundred - million grains of sand , but the possibilities of such a sum of money afford material for endless flights of the imagination . Thirty ...
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... hundred to five - hundred feet deep . The officers of the company argued that it was feasible to reach that far into the bowels of the earth with pick and shovel and discover a monstrous cave of brine and oil ! They picked a spot twenty ...
... hundred to five - hundred feet deep . The officers of the company argued that it was feasible to reach that far into the bowels of the earth with pick and shovel and discover a monstrous cave of brine and oil ! They picked a spot twenty ...
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... hundred - and - ten miles below Louisville . It was a success and a hundred have followed since , most of which are producing mod- erately . Col. J. C. Adams , formerly of Tidioute , Pa . , was the principal operator for twenty years ...
... hundred - and - ten miles below Louisville . It was a success and a hundred have followed since , most of which are producing mod- erately . Col. J. C. Adams , formerly of Tidioute , Pa . , was the principal operator for twenty years ...
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Página 31 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Página 370 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;— all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?
Página 38 - Some months since, in the act of boring for salt water on the land of Mr. Lemuel Stockton, situated in the County of Cumberland, Kentucky, a vein of pure oil was struck, from which it is almost incredible what quantities of the substance issued. The discharges were by floods at intervals of from two to five minutes, at each flow vomiting forth many barrels of pure oil. . . . These floods continued for three or four weeks, when they subsided to a constant stream, affording many thousand gallons per...
Página 396 - I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin, without a flower, a funeral without an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy.
Página 26 - The healthful balm, from nature's secret spring, The bloom of health and life to man will bring; As from her depths the magic liquid flows, To calm our sufferings and assuage our woes.
Página 396 - Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them ; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.
Página 131 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Página 29 - Oil," and besides is subject to such tremendous explosions of gas, as to force out all the water, and afford nothing but gas for several days, that they make but little or no salt. Nevertheless the petroleum affords considerable profit, and is beginning to be in demand for lamps, in workshops and manufactories. It affords a clear, brisk light when burnt this way, and will be a valuable article for lighting the street lamps in the future cities of Ohio.
Página 6 - ... oil at the bottom we could not judge. The owner of the rope, who followed our guide, affirmed that when a pit yielded as much as came up to the waist of a man, it was deemed tolerably productive, if it reached his neck, it was abundant; but that which rose no higher than the knee, was accounted indifferent.
Página 396 - If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them.