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be visualized. to be comprehended
without comparison with or appll-
cation TO comprehensive things.
Therefore. that we may more In
telligently regard the petroleum
potentially OF section SO, let's ven
ture into the realm of. Imaginative
INSTALLATION with the firm footing
of applied mathematics as our
guide.
A Cheyenne city block Is 27s feet
long and 264 feet wide. A tank the
shape Of a Cheyenne city block and
as high as a Cheyenne city block is
wide would have n capacity of 49,
gallons. A tank seven times that
large would be required TO hold the
petroleum in section &c. Such a
tank would be 1856 feet long, 254
feet wide and 264 feet high. The
dome OF the state capitol building
is $50 feet high. The displacement
OF the average human body is
slightly less than two and one-half
cubic feet. IN n tank sufficiently
large to contain the petroleum in
section IS there could be placed
54.Oe9. 900 average human beings
approximately one-half OF the popu-
1ation OF the United States. The
Citizens National Bank building is
&c feet square. A tank covering
the same ground area would have
TO be six miles high to accommo-
date tho petroleum content Of sec
tlon SO. The most colossal struc-
ture ever reared by men, the Great
NAL ~ CHN-a A-Aonfad fu fhn
pyramid OF Cheops. 1t contains ST.
III 900 cubic feet Of masonry. II
the pyramid OF Cheops were n tank
It's capacity would be 1 1880, $50
gallons. The petroleum content Of
section SO would I'll such a tank
snd there would remain sufficient
petroleum TO fill another tank of
two-thirds the volume OF Cheops.
The capacity OF the average rail
way tank a is $500 gallons. Sec
ton Sc contains sufficient petro-
leum TO I'll 153,s4S tank cars.
These cars would form 3.077 trains
Of 90 cars each. Coupled in a single
train. they would extend 1.1e7 miles
the distance from New York City
TO Memphis, Tenn.
OIL cast upon the water win
calm a raging sea. a film OF oil
one ten -~thousandth of an inch thick
is sufficient, it is estimated. to &C
complish this result. The area OF
the Atlantic IS IS. 900 900
square miles. There is sufficient
petroleum in section sc TO owe
the Atlantic ocean with a film one
eight-thousandth or an finch thick.
II a wick were placed in a tank
containing the petroleum content
OF section &c, the wick were ignlted
and the flame consumed one gallon
Of oil per day. ~2.712.6o3 years would
eiapse before the fame would die
from exhaustion OF fuel. II the
flame consumed one barrel of oil
daily. It would burn 54.252 years
before the tanks content was ex-
hausted. Had a beacon consuming
ten barrels Of oil daily. with h
petroleum content of section SO
available as its fuel. been lighted
when King Tutenkhamen Of Egypt
was placed in his tomb. and It had
burned continuously its glare still
would be illuminating the labors of
the scientific ghouls who are ravag-
Ing the tomb and there would re-
main sufficient fuel to keep 1t burn
ing 500 years longer.
Had a tank containing the petro-
ieum of section SO been tapped the
day OF the crucihxion with a faucet
with n run-on Of n gallon per
minute, and this run-on had con-
tinued uninterruptedly, the stream
still would be flowing and there
would remain in the tank sufficient
petroleum to feed the stream an
other decade. To drain such a tank
n pump with n capacity OF ten