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Burning oil from seepage, #1 well, Columbia Oils, Flathead valley, British Columbia.
Burning oil from seepage, #1 well, Columbia Oils, Flathead valley, British Columbia.
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Burning oil from seepage, #1 well, Columbia Oils, Flathead valley, British Columbia.

Copied from PA-2609-16. Well started in 1933 and abandoned in 1938 at 8,000 feet. 
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Date [ca. 1935] 
Creator Unknown
Genre Negatives, Photographs
Place Canada - British Columbia
Subject Flathead Valley, British Columbia--Industry, Oil wells, Petroleum industry and trade--Employees, Petroleum industry and trade--Oil well drilling
Archival Information
Fonds/Collection Earle Gray fonds
Unique identifier CU1126682 
Legacy Identifier na-4659-3 
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Attribution "Burning oil from seepage, #1 well, Columbia Oils, Flathead valley, British Columbia.", [ca. 1935], (CU1126682) by Unknown. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.