The Derrick's Hand-Book of Petroleum Volume 1
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230060644 |
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...to appoint a receiver. 21. Golden well at Saxonburg made 102 bbls. for 24 hours ending at 3 p. m. Reibold gauges--Z. Markle No. 2. 10; A. H. Behm No. 5, 22; No. 6, 42; Stahm No. 3, 37; G. R. Behm No. 5, 33; No. 0, 50 bbls. an hour. An oil strike reported from Hutchinson, Kan. First snow storm of the season in the oil regions. Failure of the Alpha Refining Company, at Sarnia, Out. David Earnhardt, of Millerstown. commits suicide by cutting his throat. William Reed, an old speculative oil operator of Sewiekley, drowned in the Atlantic at Soniers' Point, N. J. 22. Bolard, Oreeulee & Co.'s well on Widow Lonitz farm, strikes the sand. Reibold gauges, 6,800 bbls. from 93 wells. Washington gauges, 8,380 bbls. from 221 wells. Five wells were torpedoed during the week. 23. Sunday. Heavy windstorm throughout the lower oil country; numerous derricks blown down and two unfinished buildings demolished at Oil City; 75 derricks destroyed in the heavy oil district about Franklin. Samuel Woodward's refinery burned near Farkersburg, W. Va.; loss, $13,000. 24. Market opened firm at 74c, advanced to 74%c, broke to 74c, and then on the report that Bolard & Greenlee's well at Saxonburg was showing large, went down quickly to 73V; it afterwards broke to 71i4c and then to 70%c and closed at bid. At Oil City it sold off to 70%c and at Pittsburg to 70%c. Bolard & Greenlee well on Widow Lonitz farm, at Saxonburg, starts off at 100 and increased to 120 bbls. an hour. McBride well made 06 bbls. last 24 hours. George Rice, of Marietta, Ohio, files his thirteenth complaint against the Standard Oil Company with the Inter-State Commerce Committee at Washington. Residence of Henry Fogle burned at Klnzua village. 25. Market opened at 71%c, advanced quickly to...