 ... and the oil is soon thrown out like a fountain. Fragments of stone are thrown to a height of a hundred feet in the torrent of yellow fluid. Sometimes the oil has to be pumped from the wells ; from some it flows freely a long time without pumping....  Around the World - Page 61by Stella Webster Carroll Tolman, Tolman (Mrs. Stella Webster (Carroll)) - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - English language - 1912 - 392 pages
...Sometimes the oil has to be pumped from the wells ; from some it flows freely a long time without pumping. Is the crude petroleum as it comes from the wells...is sent all over the world from the United States. Great tank steamers are used for carrying the oil across the ocean. Lines of iron pipe have been laid... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - English language - 1912 - 392 pages
...Sometimes the oil has to be pumped from the wells ; from some it flows freely a long time without pumping. Is the crude petroleum as it comes from the wells...is sent all over the world from the United States. Great tank steamers are used for carrying the oil across the ocean. Lines of iron pipe have been laid... | |
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