The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-04

badly. But now under the Soviet
power in our Baku, oil is not extracted
by man power, the workers being re.
placed by pumps. These pumps,
altho not completely but only by 54
per cent, have nevertheless replaced
the workers. During the short period
of It's existence, during eight years,
the workers and peasants govern
ment has done what the bourgeoisie
could not do during tens and hundreds
Of years. In a few more years time
these pumps will replace the oil ex-
tracing workers by 100 per cent. The
workers call these pumps RED ex-
tractors" Altogether in the Bibi-Eibat
district pumps are installed in more
than half Of the oil borings in opera
ton. Is this not an achievement for
the workers?
Here is something else which will
strike still more every class-conscious
European worker. Our achievements
with boring installations over an area
one-half the size of the former Bib
Eibat district called "Bukhta." On the
Bibi-Eibat "Bukhta" territory part of
the sea has been reclaimed over an
area 249, 300 hectares. This work was
begun in 1907, but it was stopped in
1917. Twenty-six thousand six hun.
bred hectares called "Kovsh" remained
to be reclaimed within the "Bukhta
area and this work is being completed
now. All the reclaimed but not yet
fully developed r'Bukhta" territory
goes by the name of the V. l. Lenin
area. 1t comprises 249,300 hectares
We enclose a photo of it mo. 61), Civ
ing a general view of the Bibi-Eibai
"Bukhta."
THRUOUT this reclaimed part Of the
l. "Bukhta" boring towers are being
erected. From the end of 1922 and III
to /. /. &c, 95 such boring towers were
erected. OF these As are working, in
13 the boring process is still going
on and in the remaining 81 the pre-
paratory work for boring operations
goes on successfully at an increased
rate and, as we say, with special
"gusto." The reclaiming work as well
as the construction of boring towers
in the Ilyitch "Bukhta" only began at
the end of 1922. The Bukhta has only
been three years in existence, and yet
what an amount of work has been
done and how the whole place is TEEN
ing with energy!
Since its establishment three years
ago boring operations in the "Bukhta''
have been done over an area of 27,31O
metres, exclusive Of the trial borings.
The workers work so intensively and
make such efforts that in 1925 boring
operations were carried out over H.
15S,720 metres. This is due to the fact
that all the workers are fully con-
scious that whatever they do they do
for themselves-for the Soviet state.
Since the establishment of the
"Bukhta" industry up to January 1,
1926, 42S, 435,71S tons of oil have been
extracted; 2O,SO2,62O tons were OBJ
tanned from oil springs. This is what
working-class management means, this
is how the proletarians of the Baku
BibiEibat's oil district work.
CovIET miners work proudly and
- boldly, perfecting the technique of
their industry as they go along. Thus
the entire industry of the Ilyitch
"Bukhta" is carried on by means OF
pumps-"Red extractors." There are
altogether A pumps in the "Bukhta."
The exploitation is carried on by the
covered-in system, which is, of course,
very profitable, as with this method
of exploitation all the gas is collected
in special receptacles and is put to
good use. There were no such tech
nical improvements under the bour-
geoisie, under the former Bibi-Eibat
employers-Nobel, Shibayev, Roth
child. and all such companies.
Under the bourgeoisie all the oil
as It came out of the soil was collected
in a wooden tank or in mud-walled
sheds. Everything was open, and the
risk of sudden connagration was great.
But now the oil flows into hermeti-
cally closed tanks which are also
adapted to the collection of gas. For
the time being all the collected gas
goes thru special pipes to heat ovens
and all the dwellings in the Bibi-Eibat
district, as well as for the heating Of
the steam boilers OF the "Leonid Kras-