The Great Oil Pipe Line

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 14, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 36.

The Great Oil Pipe Line

THE great pipe line from Lima, O., to South Chicago, for the transportation of oil, consists of an eight-inch, wrought-iron pipe, 206 miles in length. It was constructed at a cost of $7,000 per mile. The oil will be forced to Chicago by means of powerful pumps at the Ohio end, and it will take three days to pass through the pipe. To fill the pipe will take 72,000 barrels of oil, and the line will have a capacity of 1,000 barrels, or about 40,000 gallons per hour.—Selected.