Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Oil in Strange Places. [ARTICLE]

Oil in Strange Places.

Oil wells are sometimes struck in strange places. Possibly the would-be funny man who once remarked that if you stuck a cane in the soil of California it would sprout and blossom in a season, would now assert that they are growing derricks in their y«.rds. At any rate, the derricks are there. Oil was recently struck at Los Angeles, and now the people are drilling wells and erecting derricks in their yards. A derrick can hardly be said to be an ornamental structure, but a good oil well is a profitable thing, and the people are willing to endure the unsightly derricks for the possible financial results.—New York Commercial Advertiser.

One thousand pounds of dough for biscuits is rolled, cut and prepared for baking in three hours and fifty-four minutes by machinery, as against fiftyfour hours by hand.