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Actual Site of Norman No. 1
Opening Well of the Mid-Continent Field
From this discovery well the field spread first west then south to the Gulf of Mexico. The Norman No. 1 was dirlled in November 1892 by O L Bloom of Independence for William Mills of ...
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Norman No. 1
Opening well of the Mid-Continent Field
Kansas has long been oil country. There are legends that Indians held council around the lights of burning springs. Immigrants, it is known, skimmed "rock tar" from such oil seeps to grease the axles of ...
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