Piquet
a game of cards played befour honors and the highest four plain cards of each suit. The cards are shuffled and cut as in whist, and then dealt, two by two, till each player has 12, and the remaining eight, called the " talon," or stock, are then laid on the table. The first player must then discard from one to five of his cards, replacing them with a similar number from from the Tarr farm to the first refinery the talon; and after him the younger erected in the oil country at Plumer.
In 1875 the first successful pipe line was laid by Samuel Van Sycle from Pithole to Miller's farm. Next came an effort to construct a pipe line from the wells to the seaboard, and in 1875 the Pennsylvania Transportation Company was auto construct a pipe line from the oil regions to tide water. Generally, to avoid the extremes of heat and cold, the pipes are buried under the surface of the ground about two feet. They are laid on a bee line, and follow the face of the country to tide water. The pumping stations are located at central points in the valleys along the various lines.
Each pipe line section is patrolled by a lineman, and the smallest leakages are quickly detected and righted. To remove sediment and other deposits an automatic scraper is introduced into the pipes, the oil pressure forcing the scraper along from one station to the next, the sound of its travel being thoroughly next, audible to the lineman who follows it in its passage.