Chapter XV: From the Well to the Lamp 311-342

Transporting Crude-Oil by Wagons and Boats—Unfathomable
Mud and Swearing Teamsters—Pond
Freshets—Establishment of Pipe-Lines—National-Transit
Company and Some of Its Officers—Speculation in
Certificates—Exchanges at Prominent Points—The
Product That Illumines the World at Various Stages of
Progress.