Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-04-04

and shooting" the shaft is held to be the
final process, and If this is without sat g.
factory result the boring is abandoned.
These torpcdocs are made of tin pine of he
size and appearance Of the common house
leader for rain water and are from 30
to % feet In length. They are filled with DIV.
Mantle and SUI to the bottom of the bore.
II this discharge of from go to 100 pounds of
explosive does not develop good future for
he well it has none. But generally on this
strong hint the flow or the pumping yield is
immediate. The business of shooting wells is
carried on by cool and daring fellows as a
regular calling, and they make nothing of it
but the task invites few spectators.
Suppose the well to have yield of oil (:
i've barrels will do, but ten IS better, and
from hfleen to forty barrels daily yield
IS pretty thing to smile over, especially if
the well furnishes gus enough for its own
steam pumping.
The general feeling of the oil regions to.
ward the Unred Pipe Lines and the National
Transit company found to have been con
considerably modified during the last
few years. Formerly there was Il
strong hostility to these great sys-
tens and their owners, partly well
and partly III founded. The logic of events
hGs shown the vast saving of oil and the
|
The vast disbursements FIR labor and matcri-
al have quickened all the industries of the
oil regions, changing the local sentiment,
until now, generally speaking, at the centre
OF OIL production feeling OF reliance aud
confidence has replaced the distrust of form
er days. In this town there are 300 great
| tanks filled with oil TO he sent seward
through the pipe line. The United Pipe
Line company has over 1900 tanks. These
are OF iron and closed except at manholcs.
They are 80 feet in diameter, from 90 10 so
feet high, and hold from 10000 to 30, 600
barrels of oil cach. The storage charge for
oil is Sl2 80 per month for 1000 barrels
| The pipe line system of the National Tran
sit Company consists of the New York line
from Olean to Saddle River, in New jersey,
near Passaic, about II miles from New York.
From there a service line of pipe runs to The
| Hudson River and under the river crossing
| New York at about Seventy-third street CON
'rlOutlng to the industries and odors of Hun
tefs font still another service pipe runs
| to Bayonne n. j. Tic great New York
| pipe line is constructed with 6-nch wrought
| iron pipe tested for great pressure. 1t has
not gravity flow, but follows the intqual-
tiles OF the surface, with pumping stations at
intervals as needed, their distances apart
varying from 25 to 60 miles. The average
Iate OF now is about lO,OOO barrels in "a
hours. The pipe is laid at varying depths
below the surface with view to protection
against changes of temperature.
This general description of the great pipe
line will apply to the other pipe lines OF the
same company in Pennsylvania and New
York, consisting OF pipe lines to Buffalo aud
Cleveland, to Philadelphia, aud to Balti-
more, in all nearly 1000 miles. There is
also the Underwater Pipe Lin. company S
hue, about 100 miles long, from The Brad.
ford oil field to Tamenend, in Schuylkill
county. This pipe line service is wholly the
work OF the last five or six years
The figures of storage pf oil constitute a
staple information OF the Commercial re.
potts. The amount stored is now about
5000, 600 barrels, or little more than lS
months yield. The wcll-diGgcis will keep
boring. Oil lands on sale and lcasehold hrc
continually being taken up Oac after an
other the promising localities 'play cat ="
and sometimes drop their yield in a single
| season. NJ one knows or can conf cjuic
VIII 1t the next generation may Know or have
TO do with petroleum. 1t is to &c hoped,
however, that it may not be to them only
The light of other DAYS