“ He has carried every point who has mixed the useful with Viii “ No man likes mustard by itself.”- BEN JONSON. The old days over again,” so it is fitting to pray, with Tiny Pleasant task of reviewing petroleum’s wide field and “living “care for none of these things.” This will likely end the Something not thanks may be due the lonely few who The public generally for kindly appreciation of the work. Hearty thanks are returned hosts of friends and Progressive, hence numerous illustrations and much new matterĪre added. The first edition of five-thousand copies having been exhausted, “within is more of relish than of cost” the writer of these Nearly all of them now presented for the first time, willīe valuable mementoes of individuals and localities that have Grandest industry of the ages and of the men chiefly responsibleįor its origin and growth. The purpose is to give the busy outside world,īy anecdote and incident and brief narration, a glimpse of the Largely upon personal observation, which may be worth savingįrom oblivion. Sincere endeavor to print something regarding petroleum, based That the oil business is a pretty big enterprise. Nor is itĪ mere collection of dry facts and figures, set forth to show History of the great petroleum development. The subject fully, hence this work is not a detailed Life is too short to compile a book that would cover
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