BACK-GARDEN BUSINESS
(N. Z.P. A. -Reuter —Copyright) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. Mr Radion Slipyj has I a do-it-yourself oil well in his back garden that earns 500 dollars a month. All Mr Slipyj (pronounced slippage) and his wife have to do is keep track of the gallons of high-quality crude oil hauled away every week —and collect the payment. When Mr Slipyj, a 52-
year-old municipal engineer, moved to Los Angeles three years ago he found that nothing grew in the garden. But he did not know the cause until his wife discovered a pool of oil under the house. After thoroughly checking local by-laws, he found he could not drill for oil. But he could take, action to save his house from possibly dangerous fumes.
Mr Slipyj built an underground seepage reservoir 10 feet deep and 20 feet square and fitted it with a secret system of his own design to tap the oil into it. All that shows above ground are two pipes—one for measuring the oil in the tank and the other for siphoning it out. Mr Slipyj believes the oil springs from a fault in the land formation directly under his house.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30634, 28 December 1964, Page 11
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