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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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...
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