Oil industries

Pick and shovel work being completed along the path of the oil pipeline. This is a 1500 foot blue granite bed along Section Number 3. Eight of these beds were encountered along a 5 mile stretch. From the scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views - First Section of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline.

Blast breaking up a granite bed in the path of the oil pipeline. From the scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views - First Section of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline.

Before dynamite blasts blow tree stumps from the right of way of the oil pipeline, a clearing gang works on Section Number 4. From the scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views - First Section of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline.

A view of oil pipeline that is ready to be set into the ground. From the scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views - First Section of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline.