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R.R. - from which it is 12 miles distant, and it only requires a little Capital to make it pay - One well, sunk about [60 feet?] into the rocks, spouted pure oil in a jet nearly fifty feet from the surface of the ground for nearly a month - estimated 1000 barrels a day at least but owing to the incompetence of the lessees it was nearly all wasted, and the flow has stopped. - I know a very thorough-experienced man who could be employed to superintend the working of a
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R.R. - from which it is 12 miles distant, and it only requires a little Capital to make it pay - One well, sunk about [60 feet?] into the rocks, spouted pure oil in a jet nearly fifty feet from the surface of the ground for nearly a month - estimated 1000 barrels a day at least but owing to the incompetence of the lessees it was nearly all wasted, and the flow has stopped. - I know a very thorough-experienced man who could be employed to superintend the working of a
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