Sketches in Crude Oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum Development in All Parts of the Globeauthor, 1896 - 406 páginas |
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... operations and these wells remained idle . Four years later my uncle , George Buchanan , and myself drilled on the Whitman farm . The patriarch watched the progress of the work with feverish interest , spending hours. AMERICA ON DECK . 19.
... operations and these wells remained idle . Four years later my uncle , George Buchanan , and myself drilled on the Whitman farm . The patriarch watched the progress of the work with feverish interest , spending hours. AMERICA ON DECK . 19.
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... interest , spending hours daily about the rig . A string of driving - pipe , up to that time said to be the longest - 153 feet - ever needed in an oil - well , had to be forced down . Three feet farther a vein of sparkling water ...
... interest , spending hours daily about the rig . A string of driving - pipe , up to that time said to be the longest - 153 feet - ever needed in an oil - well , had to be forced down . Three feet farther a vein of sparkling water ...
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... interests , in order to test the territory fully and lay a pipe - line to Glasgow or Louisville , should the production warrant the expenditure . Wells have been sunk east of the Carter nearly to Monticello , eighteen miles off ...
... interests , in order to test the territory fully and lay a pipe - line to Glasgow or Louisville , should the production warrant the expenditure . Wells have been sunk east of the Carter nearly to Monticello , eighteen miles off ...
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... interest to the oil fraternity . At Bowling Green a well was sunk two - hundred feet , a few gallons of green- oil bowling to the surface . Torpedoing was unknown , or the fate of many Ken- tucky wells might have been reversed . John ...
... interest to the oil fraternity . At Bowling Green a well was sunk two - hundred feet , a few gallons of green- oil bowling to the surface . Torpedoing was unknown , or the fate of many Ken- tucky wells might have been reversed . John ...
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... interest was pending before the " squar . " The principals were farmers from the hilly region , whose fathers and grandfathers had been at loggerheads and transmitted the quar- rel to their posterity . Blood had been shed and hatred ...
... interest was pending before the " squar . " The principals were farmers from the hilly region , whose fathers and grandfathers had been at loggerheads and transmitted the quar- rel to their posterity . Blood had been shed and hatred ...
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Página 316 - Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill : Did this in Caesar seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Yet he did thrice refuse.
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 66 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Página 394 - 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 a eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy.
Página 293 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
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 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 301 - Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience; A friend like this would suit my sorrows well.
Página 316 - Caesar, because the times are hard, And his folks can't afford to hire an undertaker. The evil that men do lives after them In the shape of progeny, who reap The benefit of their life insurance.
Página 394 - 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.