Romance of American Petroleum and Gas ...Alfred Russell Crum, A. S. Dungan Romance of American petroleum and gas Company, 1911 - Engineers |
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Page 123 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 165 - For this purpose they use a broad, flat board, made thin at one edge like a knife ; it is moved flat upon and just under the surface of the water and is soon covered by a...
Page 166 - Egyptian mummies may not have preserved his body from putrefaction. The history of this spring is not distinctly known. The Indians were well acquainted with it, and a square mile around it is still reserved for the Senecas. As to the geological origin of the spring, it can scarcely admit of a doubt that it rises from beds of bituminous coal below. At what depth we know not, but probably far down. The formation is doubtless connected with the bituminous coal of the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania...
Page 164 - The Oil Spring or fountain rises in the midst of a marshy ground. It is a muddy and dirty pool of about eighteen feet in diameter, and is nearly circular in form. There is no outlet above ground, no stream flowing from it; and it is of course a stagnant water, with no other circulation than that which springs from the changes of .temperature and from the gas and petroleum that are constantly rising on the surface of the pool.
Page 246 - If you should ask me, gentlemen, what legislation can be imposed to improve the present condition, I answer that the next great, and, to my mind, inevitable step of progress in the direction of our commercial development lies in the direction of national or Federal corporations. If such corporations should be made possible, under such fair...
Page 107 - Johnston well is. In two hours these flats were covered with a flood of oil. The hillside was as if a yellow freshet had passed over it. Heavy clouds of gas almost obscuring the derrick, hung low in the woods, and still that mighty rush continued.
Page 164 - This is situated in the western part of the county of Allegany, in the state of New York. This county is the third from Lake Erie on the south line of the state, the counties of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua lying west and forming the southwestern termination of the state of New York. The spring is very near the line which divides Allegany and Cattaraugus.
Page 390 - The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Bridgeport, and by his versatility soon attracted the attention of his instructors.
Page 166 - I cannot learn that any considerable part of the large quantity of petroleum used in the Eastern States under the name of Seneca Oil comes from the spring now described. I am assured that its source is about one hundred miles from Pittsburgh, on the Oil Creek which empties into the Allegheny river in the township and County of Venango. It exists there in great abundance, and rises in purity to the surface of the water. By dams enclosing certain parts of the river or creek it is prevented from flowing...
Page 107 - Oildom. \Vhen the shot took effect and the barren rock, as if smitten by the rod of Moses, poured forth its torrent of oil, it was such a magnificent and awful spectacle that no painter's brush or poet's pen could do it justice.