Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe

CHAPTER VIII. PICKING RIPE CHERRIES 157-170

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Juicy Streaks Bordering Oil Creek—Famous Benninghoff Robbery—Close Call for a Fortune—City Set Upon a Hill—Allemagooselum to the Front—Cherry Run’s Whirligig—Romance of the Reed Well—Smith and McFate Farms—Pleasantville, Shamburg and Red Hot—Experiences Not Unworthy of the Arabian Nights.