Petroleum: a History of the Oil Region of Venango County, Pennsylvania: Its Resources, Mode of Development, and Value: Embracing a Discussion of Ancient Oil OperationsJ. P. Skelly, 1866 - 299 páginas |
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... brought to light . Grateful acknowledgments are due to gentlemen who have aided in collecting materials for this work , and thanks are hereby given . The Oil scenes in this volume are from photographs by A. D. Deming , an enterprising ...
... brought to light . Grateful acknowledgments are due to gentlemen who have aided in collecting materials for this work , and thanks are hereby given . The Oil scenes in this volume are from photographs by A. D. Deming , an enterprising ...
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... brought from La belle France . We next find a more peaceful mission organized to visit Venango county . It was in the fall of 1767. A Moravian missionary , the Rev. David Zeisberger , accom- panied by two Christian Indians as assistants ...
... brought from La belle France . We next find a more peaceful mission organized to visit Venango county . It was in the fall of 1767. A Moravian missionary , the Rev. David Zeisberger , accom- panied by two Christian Indians as assistants ...
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... brought from its long sleep to the light of day . On examination , it proved to be an antique pat- tern of a four - pounder , without inscription or other mark that would have proved its nationality . It had however been spiked , and ...
... brought from its long sleep to the light of day . On examination , it proved to be an antique pat- tern of a four - pounder , without inscription or other mark that would have proved its nationality . It had however been spiked , and ...
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... brought in and purchased , and , as usual , thrown up into the loft of the store . A few hours later , another fine skin was purchased , soon after an- other , and another ; until wondering that so many fine skins should all appear in ...
... brought in and purchased , and , as usual , thrown up into the loft of the store . A few hours later , another fine skin was purchased , soon after an- other , and another ; until wondering that so many fine skins should all appear in ...
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... brought from a great distance , and often on the backs of pack - horses ; grain was sometimes carried on men's backs to other counties to be ground , and back again ; cloth must be woven and leather tanned , by do- mestic process alone ...
... brought from a great distance , and often on the backs of pack - horses ; grain was sometimes carried on men's backs to other counties to be ground , and back again ; cloth must be woven and leather tanned , by do- mestic process alone ...
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Allegheny Allegheny river banks barrels per day become beneath boats borer boring brought cannel coal capital carried cavities cease chamber Cherry run coal commenced companies connected crevices deep depth derrick distance distillation dollars doubt drill earth engine enterprise exhausted farm fifty fire flowing fluid Fort Venango French creek gallon hills important Indians iron labor land lease lubricating machinery manufacture matter ment mighty MONSTER TANKS naptha nature neighborhood oil business Oil City Oil creek oil operations oil region oil springs oil valleys oil vein opened perhaps petroleum pipe Pittsburgh Plumerville portion pumping purposes quantities refining result river seed-bag shale side six hundred feet Sometimes strata stratum stream substance success sufficient Sugar creek supply surface tank third sand rock thousand barrels tion Titusville trade tubing valuable vein of oil Venango county water veins workmen
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Página 39 - Near unto which town is a valley of pitch very marvellous to behold, and a tiling almost incredible, wherein are many springs throwing out abundantly a kind of black substance, like unto tar and pitch, which serveth all the countries thereabouts to make staunch their barks and boats, every one of which springs maketh a noise like a smith's forge in puffing and blowing out the matter, which never ceaseth night nor day, and the noise is heard a mile off, swallowing up all weighty things that come upon...
Página 241 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company in whicli they are stockholders to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively...
Página 219 - When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn ; Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye : But here description clouds each shining ray; What terms of art can nature's powers display...
Página 250 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 18 - They told me, that it was their absolute design to take possession of the Ohio, and by G — they would do it ; for that, although they were sensible the English could raise two men for their one, yet they knew their motions were too slow and dilatory to prevent any undertaking of theirs.
Página 247 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Página 247 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Página 219 - What radiant changes strike the astonished sight ! What glowing hues of mingled shade and light ! Not equal beauties gild the lucid West With parting beams all o'er profusely drest, Not lovelier colours paint the vernal Dawn, When orient dews impearl the...
Página 57 - A point was selected where the oil appeared to bubble up most freely, when a pit was excavated to a depth of two or three feet. Sometimes this pit was rudely walled up, sometimes not. Sometimes it was near the edge of the water on the bank of the stream, sometimes in the bed of the stream itself, advantage being taken of a time of low water. In these pits the oil and water would collect together, until a stratum of the former would form upon the surface of the latter, when a coarse blanket or piece...
Página 17 - France, and that they have maintained it by their arms and by treaties, especially by those of Ryswick, Utrecht and Aix-laChapelle.