Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
OIL TRANSPORTATION.
The Immense Amount of Capital Invested
in Pipe Lines.

The Immense Amount OF capital Invested
in Pipe Lines.
Very few people understand the ex-
tent and value of the great ou-pipe lines
that bring the product Of the petroleum
wells to tie great refining and trans
porting centers. Talking the other day
with Newell Cowel1, Of Cleveland, who
is largely interested in the lines, he
said:
lyon have probablyno idea of the ex-
tent of the Standard Oil Company's pipe
line system. tits prodigious One line
goes as direct as the way viii allow
from Olean, Cattaraugus County, n. Y,
to New York City, a distance of about
three hundred miles The line stops at
Saddle River, n Y, within easy reach
of the metropolis. The Pennsylvania
line stretches from Colgrove, Mexican
County, to Philadelphia, nearly $50
miles The Baltimore line begins at
Midway Station, on the Pennsylvania
line, and runs to the city of Baltimore,
a distance OF seventy miles, that into
the great refineries at Cleveland be
gins at Hillard' S, Pa, and is one hun
dred miles in length; that to Pittsburgh
is sixty miles in length, and finds its
beginning in Carbon Center, Butler
County, Pa, while that to Buffalo
begins at Four Mile, Cattaraugus County,
n. Y, and is seventy miles in length.
That is a big system in itself, but this
isn't all there is of it. A main line has
been built from Kane, Mexican County,
to Bear Creek, distance of fifty miles,
which serves as a feeder, as oil can be
pumped through in both ways. 1t would
be impossible to describe the mass Of
smaller lines that cross the territory
drained in every direction, nor would a
description made to-day be of exact
value tomorrow, as new wells are con-
stantly opened and old ones closed. You
can get some idea Of the immensity Of
this business from the fact that Sc, coo, 900
does not represent the full value of the
lines and tankage made valueless owing
to the failure of the districts in which
they are situated. The Standard has
recently built pipe line from Lima, in
the Ohio oil field, to Chicago, thus add
ing one more link to the great chain.
It's length is little over two hundred
miles, 1t also bought up in 1888 the
Tidewater Pipe Line, from the Bradford
oil fields to Williamsport on the Read
ing railroad"
The Standard con trolls the whole bust
ness under the name of the National
Transit Company.-N. Y. Star.
Learn to Use Both Hands.
Teach the children to use both hands.
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after life. Writers cramps can be
cured in no way but by rest. If man,
be he a copyist, clerk or a telegraph
operator, sits down and writes for eight,
ten or twelve hours day as fast as hecan,
he must expect to suffer, unless he is
unusually strong We have muscular
bands and nervous connections which
are liable to be overstrained and worn
out. If a wire used by telegraph
operator gets out of order he sends his
messages over another wire: ii the owner
of few horses rides one till the animal
can do no more work, he gives him a rest
for awhile. just so if a man suffering
from cramp in the hand and arm wants
to get cured, he must rest To think of
effecting cure by the use Of iniments
is nonsense. Nature, and nature alone,
aided, perhaps, by bathing with cold
water, which acts as tonic, can restore
a cramped or tired arm. Why should
not people who have great deal OF
writing to do learn to write with both
hands? Then when one needs a rest
the other can be on duty.-N. Y. Ledger
The Study OF Languages.
What l urge is that no invidious dis
tinction be made, as some times used to
be and sometimes is, between the an
cient and the modern to the disadvan-
tage of the latter, but that students
should be encouraged to take the course
in modern languages as being quite as
good in point of discipline as any other,
if pursued with the same thoroughness
and to the same end; and that end, as |
have said, should be literature, in which
alone language attains to full conscious
ness of its power and the joyous exer-
else of it. 1t is only through literature
that we become complete men, AMI
there, and there only, can we learn what
man is and what man may be. For it is
nothing else than the autobiography OF
mankind. an Address by Prof.
Tou,al1