. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . d back through Redlands and roads are fine and the scenery beauti-ful. They have a bumper crop of orangesthis year. About a mile from where we are stayingis Signal Hill, the largest oil field in theworld. A gusher came in last week with20,000 barrels per day. The well pays foritself every three days. Many of the wellsare 4500 feet deep and cost $125,000 todrill. In one of the large gushers thatcame in about ten days ago, the oil pouredout all over houses and streets, about threehundred feet around, and it took ten menten hours to cap the
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . d back through Redlands and roads are fine and the scenery beauti-ful. They have a bumper crop of orangesthis year. About a mile from where we are stayingis Signal Hill, the largest oil field in theworld. A gusher came in last week with20,000 barrels per day. The well pays foritself every three days. Many of the wellsare 4500 feet deep and cost $125,000 todrill. In one of the large gushers thatcame in about ten days ago, the oil pouredout all over houses and streets, about threehundred feet around, and it took ten menten hours to cap the well. ..The men werepaid one hundred dollars per hour. Theyall made their wills before they went towork, but all came through alive. As forme, I would rather run a train than cap anoil well. As I said at the Convention last year, Ihope to spend the last years of my life inCalifornia, unless the last years come withinthe next six or eight years. My wife saysI am a California Booster and she knowsme pretty well. My best wishes to Conductor T. J. Andrews does a gooddays work in California Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, August, iQ2j 65
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