The fine illustrations of oil-scenes in Russia are from the collection of photographs gathered by John Eaton, President of the Oil-Well Supply Company, during his visits to the dominions of the Czar. “Long may he wave!”
Crude sixty-five,
Well, sakes alive!
You seek rich spoil?
Don’t bore for oil.
’Mid Klondyke snow
You have more show
To score a hit
And save a bit.
Six-thousand wells drilled and ninety-six-thousand barrels of production per day represent oil-operations in Pennsylvania in 1897. To this enormous output Ohio and Indiana added fifty-three-thousand barrels a day and thirty-six-hundred wells.