The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-09-14
An OIL Pipe Three Hundred Miles
Long.
Boston Traveller,

The Pennsylvania transportation com
pany, of which Mr.. Henry Harry Il
president, has been chartered by the
state of Pennsylvania for the purpose o.
Transporting oil from the oil regions t.
the principal Atlantic seaboard cities
The plan proposed is to run the on
through Il four inch pipe laid on the sur
face; the forcing power will be nine hun
dred pounds to the square inch there
are to be stations at distances Of fifteer
miles, ut each Of which an engine OF one
hundred horse power will be erected I,
work a pump to continue the flow iron
point to point. The company having
decided upon the construction of tho
work, the president sought the services
of Gen. Hartman Haupt, Of Hoosac tun'
mel fame, and who, during the war, wa
chief of the bureau of military raj roads
and a photographed engineer OF greal
skilI and experience. lie pronounced
the scheme, after "A thorough cXamina
ton, to he entirely practicable, and he l.
now acting as cnginccr-in-chiei'
III view of the enormous product o
OH III MS COuHlI -b'IV'' n"'''" ~
day-and the rank it now holds among
the leading articles Of export, coupled
with the eX0rbitant charges for railroads
carriage from the wells to the ssahoard
by the completion of the enterprise alt
its successful operation, Il complete re
volution will be accomplished in The
/ handling Of this article,
Asa proof OF how valuable this traffic
has been to the several railroads Owe
which the oil has been borne, it is only
necessary to say that up to the present
time the railroad charges aggregate 49,
OOO, 600. The minimum cost Of trans
portation oil by rail is fifty cents PEI
barrel, and the minimum cost by the
pine process is sixteen cents. The
average charge by rail is Sl.25
The estimated cost Of the entire work.
including fixtures, etc, is 81 100000 and
considering the difference in cost be-
tween this method and that by rail, up.
on the hypothesis that the company will
discount at least twenty five cents a bar
rel on rail rates, it will readily be seen
that with all the expenses OF operating,
the first years earnings will pay the first
cost of the work.
The Pennsylvania company is the par
ent company, but there is also the Balti,
more transportation company, chartered
by the state of Maryland, and some five
other companies are expecting to unite,
The first objective point or terminus vii
be Baltimore. ~ being the most feasible
and direct route for the pipes. Follow
ing which other termini will hc estab'
lisled, in Philadelphia, New York, etc,
The pipes being laid on the surface
and there being no obstacle in the way
OF forcing the oil to any height, the line
will literally be an air line, and the dis
tarcc from the oil regions to Baltimore
is 800 miles.
The oil will be distributed from the
pipes into immense reservoirs with ~
iining establishments adjacent.
The feasibility Of this enterprise, 50
far as the passage of the oil through
pipes is concerned, has been fully cstab'
Iishcd by the present system in opera
ton in the oil regions, where the aggrc-
gate length of the pipes, conveying the
oil from the several wells to the reservoir
is nearly $50 feet.