The story of Pittsburgh: Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts

Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts (Vol. 1, nr. 10)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239811

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Title:: Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 10

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1923

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Title:: Petroleum and Natural Gas

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there. While I was drilling I felt the jars stop working. From this I knew there was a crevice and I let out until the jars struck again. It was within a half hour after that time that I got the oil out of the well. When the jars stopped working I noticed the fluid rising in the drive pipe, and called Drake’s attention to it. He said; ‘What does that mean?’ I said; ‘That’s your fortune coming.” 1 ran two bits after that, and then I plugged a piece of common tin pipe with a pine plug. I attached it to a strip of lumber and lowered it into the well. No, I did not use a string or rope to lower it, no matter what history says. It was Sat- urday when I lifted the oil and had about a half gallon of it. The men were called over from the saw mill. The works were shut down and all hands came over. Next day I took out nearly a barrel and a half of oil with the tin pipe. On Monday Drake got about 20 feet of 14-inch pipe, which we attached to a common hand pump, and in that way brought up eight barrels per day. “What we used as a tank was an old fish oil can that would hold about five or six barrels. A man named Sillman then built a wooden tank of about 25 barrels capacity. Then bigger ones were put up. I got a tube and tubed the well, seed-bagged it, made it tight, and then we got nearly 20 barrels per day until October 7. At 10 o’clock that night it burned up. The fire caught from a lamp in my hand. We were so bothered with people coming to look at the well that we put up a big tank house, and that night I thought the tank was not filling fast enough and went in to see. I raised the lamp near the great tank, and in an instant it was all ablaze; burned everything up. Drake was not discouraged. He said: ‘The oil is there yet.’ “A new derrick was put up and got started again Novem- ber 7, and it began anew at 32 barrels per day, and kept it up as long as I was there. I was there nearly three years. Ido not know where the engine was built that was used to drill the well. It was there when I went there. I never saw such a time as there was at that Drake well. Hundreds of people every day, and the fool questions they would ask were awful. I thought it funny at first, but soon got sick of answering questions. An Irishman came along one day and asked:

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