The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29

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Far down in the ground underneath the No
great block steel turning round The IN
e 81 81 i naa Dunt steel teeth like nutmeg CRATER
II rested couple OF thousand feet of steel tubing
drspan weight of twenty pressing it down So al If
in the midst of river of thin which was driven down
through the center of the hollow tubing came up again be-
served three purposes kept the bit drstem from
heating carried away the groundup rock came up
on the outside of the dsem pressed against the walls
the hole and made plaster keep rigid SO that
n od not press IN upon the drstem Up the of the
to keep the mixture; there mudhogs snoring and
ESQ pounds to the square Drilling was always dirty
business you swan In pale grey mud until the well
Also it expensive business To turn those twenty
tons of steel tubing getting heavier every day they got longer
that took real power know big steam
engine started pulling CHAIN and the steel gears started
their racket Bunny would stand listen delighted Some en-
glne tna FIFTY horsepower the catheadman would say
you would imagine fifty horses harnessed odashoned
with pole such ancestors employed
up water from we or to turn primitive hreshing
YES took money to drill an owel here California;
1t wasn't like the little short holes in the East where you pounded
your way uoWn Dy ntg up your string OF tools and letting them
drop again No stree here had to be go
seven thousand feet which meant from three to three
ana n1y FONTS OF pipe also casing for could
leave this hole long without protection were strata
these you cylinder Of steel or Wrought
ron like great long pipe joint joint you would slide
down, carefully rveng them together making waterproof
job and when had this casing all cement you
start drilling with smaller Bit fourteen inches leaving
upper casing resting firmly of shelf. you
CO. smaller and smaller until when got the oands your
hole would have shrunk to five inches you
full man, like Dad you would string casing
to the derrcoor that in the upper part
you would have four sets of casing inside the other
ALI night the labOred,
pulled and the rotarable went round and bit
ate into the rock You had
hours each and because living quarters
had to be on the job moment listen
engine have plenty gas OIL the pump must
be working and the mudrver circulating and the mxngma
chne spashng and the drill making depth at the
There nnumerabe things that go wrong
OF them cost and of them Dad
liable be walked night and he would
clothes and drive field morning at break
fast he would tell Bunny about it, that fellow Rossger
make time, and when kicked he said alright
twst-of" And Dad had sad "Tws-of or no twist
off, want you to make time And there
tWlst-on right away! Dad vowed that Dan had done
purpose; there fellows enough tha-and OF
all they had to do speed up the engine
Anyhow there your twist-of" which you
had to lift out inch your thousand pipe
pulled up and unscrewed it, four joints time-breaBng
OUT the called that operation joints stand
were stood up in the derrick and the work You
couldn't tell where the break until it, then
screwed off the broken piece and threw
real job fishing for the your drstem in
the hole For this job had device called overho
the pipe and caught joint when you pulled up
something like maybe you got over
and maybe you didn't spent lot of time juggling and
downunt at last she caught fast and the rest of
stem Then you unscrewed the broken piece
sound piece, and let all back into the hole stand
time until you ready again But this time you
nag at him for any "twist-offs.'
ITO coninued)