ISBN: 9781459033344

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California State Mining Bureau,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books Annual-Report-of-the-State-Mineralogist-for-the-Year-Ending-Volume-7~~California-State-Mining-Bureau General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: kerosene, whose depth it is not possible yet to determine with precision, and which it will be necessary to learn by means of perforation. PETROLEUM, WHERE FOUND. Petroleum is an article that has a very extensive distribution; in fact, reports of its discovery are received from nearly every country, even England and Scotland being producers to a limited extent; but from no quarter do we have any authentic reports of a largeness of production to equal that of Russia or the United States of America. Reports of the production of the different countries are to be found in the United States consular reports. PETROLEUM IN RUSSIA. The accounts of the production of petroleum by the wells at Baku, on the Caspian Sea, though seemingly fabulous, are nevertheless true, as the standing of those who have reported upon the output is beyond a question of doubt. A very graphic description of the oil fountains of Russia's petroleum belt is given by Mr. Charles Marvin, who visited the fields and spent much time in their investigation, in his published work entitled, " The Region of the Eternal Fire," of which the following is an extract: -' In America there are over twenty-five thousand drilled petroleum wells. Baku possesses four hundred, but a single one of those four hundred wells has thrown up as much oil in a day as nearly the whole of the twenty-five thousand in America put together. This is very wonderful. But a more striking fact is, that the copiousness of the well should have ruined its owners, and broken the heart of the engineer who bored it, after having yielded enough oil in four months to have realized in America at least one million sterling. "'In Pennsylvania that fountain would have made its owner's fortune; there's 5,000 worth of oil flowing out of the well e...<

ISBN: 9781459033344

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