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Oil country - [L.D. Taylor and Dr. Grossman in front of Dingman well, Turner Valley, Alberta]

L.D. Taylor is the man on the right. Inscription by L.D. on the verso reads: "Dingman well stands - holds 3000 barrels. Only well of its kind in the world. Producing oil 92 [percent] gasoline. fill your auto tanks right from well. Millions of feet of wet gas. just discovered that under compression 1000 cubic ft. produce 5 gal. gasoline. besides leaving a valuable dry gas. you can smell gasoline 1/4 mile away."

Map of Manitoba, Kewaydin, British Columbia and North West Territory shewing the country traversed by the Canadian Pacific Railway

Item is a map showing the extent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (C.P.R.) in Canada in 1883. Map shows boundaries, roads, trails, telegraph lines, towns, rivers, lakes and mountainous terrain in British Columbia, the North West Territory (Alberta, Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Assiniboia), Manitoba and Kewaydin, as well as some of Ontario and Western Quebec. Map is folded inside a book titled "North West Territory, Canada."

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