Thanks Jack. Have you ever heard of Magnolia Petroleum Company? You know I hated history and geography in school. Sure need it now!!! Becky *~Y~* -----Original Message----- From: Jack Delmar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [OKCREEK-L] photos > >----- Original Message ----- >From: dalton <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:27 PM >Subject: [OKCREEK-L] photos > > >> For those of you who viewed the photos of mine at >www.rootsweb.com/%7Eokstephe/photo.htm >> on photo # 009. (the one w/ Mr. Bennett in it) what do you think that is >in front of the bldg? Is it a replica of a train engine or possibly the >shadow from a real one parked near? >> >> Becky >> *~Y~* >> >> >> ==== OKCREEK Mailing List ==== >> Oklahoma Cemeteries >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/cemetery/cemetery.htm >> > >I don't think it was a train ,but a wakasha engine they used in the >powerhouse. A powerhouse was used in those days to run a number of oil >wells from a central engine house "Powerhouse" it had "rodlines" that ran >from the powerhouse to 10-20 seperate >oil wells to keep them pumping. You could hook, unhook rods, to run or stop >any oil well from pumping. My dad was a oil field pumper who ran those >powerhouses in Creek County from the late "40's till his death in Kiefer in >1968. He was a pumper at Drumright from 1954-1960 , then moved us kids back >to Kiefer in 1960 as a pumper. >He spent all of his oil field carreer with the Tidewater Oil Co. I used to >spend my summers with my dad at his "leases" and have lots of memories. > >Jack Delmar, 3rd generation grad of Kiefer, Okla. >[email protected] >www.my-ged.com/delmar > > > >==== OKCREEK Mailing List ==== >Your donations to RootsWeb makes OKGenWeb possible. > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >