+ J Home Econ 12:426 S ’20 60w + Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 140w
PANYITY, LOUIS S.[[2]] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1
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“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
+ Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all, deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that it covers nothing at all.”
+ − Mining and Scientific Press 120:554 Ap 10 ’20 210w
“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a very wide public.” H. B. Milner