Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-03-24
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means Of getting their product from the
gusher to the grocer, or from the hole
drllrr to the Wholesalers
1t seems, however, from the latest re.
ports of the exhaustive and costly expert
mcnts Of Prof. j. H. Oglesthorpe, of
West Frazee, Il small but cnterpriSing
town i'll the ull-brlt, that at last the
Professor : theories are working out as
he has all along claimed, though prac-
teal oil men until recently always dis
agreed with him and called him Wis
sluuary and a crank.
II Is the present practice to pump the
OIL through pipes laid uphill and down
without any regard to grades, the only
Idea seeming to be to get the shortest
distance between tfrmjui. To move oil
in this way requires numerous pumps of
tremendous power and corresponding
cost, and the operating expense is con
Stant and heavy. Little or no help is
gained from the "siphon" principle i'll
this method for the reason that the down
grades, on each side of the mountain
ranges crossed are so steep that tn" oil.
thick and tenacious, CaunOi retain its
continuity as 1t crosses different sue
Ceedlng submits, but breaks apart ON
top of each considerable ridge and flows
down the next slope at a rate more rapid
than that maintained Inv the ascondinr
stream or coIumu ON the other side inns
breaking the siuhou and leovinp ,bn
DuuDs to do all thn ,ynrl, nf nronalIi,o
the oil to the top of the mountain
Now the first n4rsnu tn .npgnst that
there MIGHT he a material imnrova,uaut
made in oil propulsion was a Ger
man tramstcr named Schueider who
WAS emDlnyrd IN hauliro nino for an o,,
tpnsivc oil line He said that if tbav
could make the oil stick together like q
rupc going over a nplIy he didn't 500
why the long end of the rome of oil RIM
ming down to the market and yr,Ir,IJ
could nor mil thn short end nf rho rono
from the ijgL I,y,I of the oil fields ovar
the first mountain and So ON to IFS dos.
tinatlou. OF course heinz . foraionar
and having the usual difficulties with nnr
language he only GOT himself l,ugbnd ot
for his pains and was known from thar
time on as "Ropv" Schneider
Several wears later Prof Oglestborne
was emnl1yad NV tba oil cnmn,nr r.
look over some new territory with view
TO locating several wells and duriro
his investigations he fpIIin with "Rnnv9
Schneider and most u,tur,Ilv asked tho
meaning OF ms nprnI1Dr nickname.
Schneider. who had not baan nnt;rnl,
lauphrd ont of his b,li.f and fud;n,, tIo
Professor :, ready and diutaII,oautl listono,
gradually made known his thanry and
was nor only drlight.d hnt o,u.yod 10
observe that if did NOT strike Ms no,v
found acuuaiutaure os in tho In,.t
ridiculous. On the contrary if seemed
to impress him as a most nr.rtira1 md
The Professor soon lost .;obt az
Schneider but rouId NOT So o,s;I,' fnr,,at
his scheme, and the more he thHnght nf
if the more favorabIv bn v,a. i,n,T'.,,d
until he finally became convinrrd tb,t
there was n iroot and rorta;r fn,.t,,'l
awaiting the man who cnnld NM tho
Germans ideas into nrartiral vbono
and. more difficult stiIi sp,nra thn rn'
operation and financial backing nf tba
great oil COMPANIES. His FIRST movement
was to Law ont and construct - miniotrra
pipeline aud pu,npinp ncrnrdng
to the present accented methods and thnn
show, bv actual fest that he cDnld so
arrange hIs nine limo that tb. u,,rl,
could be done with less than nue-tnuth
the usual rxprnditure of steam maven,
His argument was thus. II nhvi,u.I,
impossible to oincrcaset hrteusiIe strnnrtI
of the column or "rnua" of niI. So Tho
only thing to bc done is tn rednrn tho
pull or strain ON thr ronn at thn n,,mt
where it has ALWAYS broken r,mnIr at
the SUBMITS of fine hills o,,nr ,vb,cb tha
pipe-hnp passes
Now the factor that makes tba mil !.
the grade of the nine and rho m,,lL. ,Yo,,
to reduce the puli is to rpdnrr thn ,,r,Gn
to that degree tnat the mil ON rho 6nwn-
hill side of the mountains shall nnt aX
cecd the drag on the un.hili side anougb
to cause the colnmn nf oil in ,ba ri7,n
to break or mil ,nart p'P'
Having no figures from which to draw
his Information ON mis- nn;mt !, hara,na
necessary for Professor 0,,le,,hnrna =,
90 into long and t4dions series nf ex.
perimeuts tn find nnt ;n,t hn,,, ,,,,,a,,
grade his nina. .honld hJ,.. - .,tto; ttn
desired resuits Many timeS hn thnn',,t
that he had so1vnd tLa d;ainnI.;n,, "-,I,. l..
to find that 81 rh,nre IL, tn,nnarat,,n .,tm "''lS