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The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
The History of the Standard Oil Company Vol 1 - Classic Reprint Author:Ida M. Tarbell CHAPTER ONE — THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY — PETROLEUM FIRST A CURIOSITY AND THEN A MEDICINE-DISCOVERY OF ITS REAL VALUE-THE STORY OF HOW IT CAME TO BE PRODUCED IN LARGE QUANTITIES-GREAT FLOW OF OIL-SWARM OF PROBLEMS TO SOLVE-STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION-REFINING AND MARKETING- RAPID EXTENSION OF THE FIELD OF OPERATION-WORKERS IN GREAT NUMBERS WITH PLEN... more »TY OF CAPITAL-COSTLY BLUNDERS FREQUENTLY MADE-BUT EVERY DIFFICULTY BEING MET AND OVERCOME-THE NORMAL UNFOLDING OF A NEW AND WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUAL ENDEAVOUR.
ONE of the busiest corners of the globe at the opening of the year 1872 was a strip of Northwestern Pennsylvania, not over fifty miles long, known the world over as the Oil Regions. Twelve years before this strip of land had been but little better than a wilderness; its chief inhabitants the lumbermen, who every season cut great swaths of primeval pine and hemlock from its hills, and in the spring floated them down the Allegheny River to Pittsburg. The great tides of Western
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CONTENTS; PREFACEpages vii-xi; CHAPTER ONE THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM FIRST A CURIOSITY AND THEN A MEDICINE-DISCOVERY OF ITS REAL VALUE-THE STORY OF HOW IT CAME TO BE PRODUCED IN LARGE QUANTITIES-GREAT FLOW OF OIL-SWARM OF PROBLEMS TO SOLVE-STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION-REFINING AND MARKETING- RAPID EXTENSION OF THE FIELD OF OPERATION-WORKERS IN GREAT NUMBERS WITH PLENTY OF CAPITAL-COSTLY BLUNDERS FREQUENTLY MADE-BUT EVERY DIFFICULTY BEING MET AND OVERCOME-THE NORMAL UNFOLDING OF A NEW AND WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUAL ENDEAVOURPages 3-3 7; CHAPTER TWO THE RISE OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY; JOHN D ROCKEFELLER'S FIRST CONNECTION WITH THE OIL BUSINESS-STORIES OF HIS EARLY LIFE IN CLEVELAND -HIS FIRST PARTNERS- ORGANISATION OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY IN JUNE, 1870-ROCKEFELLER'S ABLE ASSOCIATES-FIRST EVIDENCE OF RAILWAY DISCRIMINATIONS IN THE OIL BUSINESS-REBATES FOUND TO BE GE« less