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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 60

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THE FOR SHOOTING AJ OIL-WELL. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) … tanks. Where there is considerable gas, but notenough to lift the well full of oil and make agusher, we may make the oil flow by packingthe well, instead of pumping it. The smallpipe is put in, but without the sucker-rod, andthe space all around it, at the bottom, is closely 48 BORING FOR OIL.…

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