Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 579
meet the propri-etor of these very oil-wells, after a similar ex- end of these wharves oil is found at a depth oftwo hundred and seventy-five feet, while at thefar end of the ten-hundred-foot wharves, wherethere is thirty feet of water, a depth of fivehundred and twenty-five feet has to be… … DERRICKS FOR PUMPING OIL FROM THE OIL-SAND FAR BELOW THE WATER NEAR SANTA BARBARA. perience with a trainman, and from him Igathered just the information I wanted. Of course the oil is not actually pumped outof the ocean, but from the oil-sand far belowthe bed of the ocean. A number of wharvesfrom…
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