Whalebacks For Oil Distribution
Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text
Tiie Standard Oil companr is builá,ng at Superior, Wis., two tank barges tor distributing its oil producís f rom that point on Lake Michigan. They 111 be an experiment and n:ay lead to ■he employment of tank ste&mers sucb is the company uses for 1U trans-Atlantic trade. Thft tanks will be whalebacks, with a wpacity of 8,000 bárrela tach.
Article
Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register