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Language
English
Abstract
Papers of oil and gas driller and producer in Tyler County and other places. The collection consists of three diaries, 1 January
1894 through 31 December 1896; a typescript; and clippings. The diaries contain daily comment on wells drilled, including
hours worked, depth of well, difficulties encountered, geologic strata, number of barrels of oil produced per hour or pressure
of gas flow. Diaries include personal affairs, wages received and paid, oil sold, rent on leased property, oil market quotations,
local affairs in Sistersville and Tyler County, voting in elections of 1894 and 1896, fire at the Big Moses Gas Well, drilling
in the United States and Mexico, salt wells in West Virginia, biographical information on W.A. Furbee, and Drake and Burning
Springs wells controversy.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers, A&M 2082, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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