Report 1884

Report on the Production, Technology, and Uses of Petroleum and Its Products

Peckham, S. F. Tenth Census of the United States, vol. 10. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884.

The source for the game's derrick bill of materials, rig costs and what it takes to build and re-rig.

Game decisions that cite this

D187 Landowners ask their own price, and leases dearer near activity
Each landowner asks 60 to 160 percent of the going rate. A lease rises 25 percent for each neighboring lease taken, and doubles beside each one where a well found oil. At Pithole in 1865, the Holmden farm went from $25,000 to about $1.3 million.