Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — Oil Wells Sunk In Bed of Ocean. [ARTICLE]

Oil Wells Sunk In Bed of Ocean.

Many persons would doubt the statement that it is possible to pump oil from the earth beneath the waters of the ocean. That this is done, however, is proved. The well towers are located on rough frame piers ever the ocean and as far as a hundred feet from the surf. Tbe oil Is pumped through the waters of the sea and is carried through pipes to tbe land, where it is emptied into tanka The pump 9 are worked by means of steam engines stationed on the piers. A few yearß ago there were many more of these wells, but some have been exhausted and abandoned in recent years.—Popular Science Monthly and World’s Advance.