VISIT TO OILFIELDS
INTEREST IN OPERATIONS
(Beeeived 11th February ,l'p.m.) VANCOUVER, 10th February. A message from tho s.s. Oropesa states that the Prince of Wales was busily engaged on Tuesday. One of the main phases of his visit to South America is the collection and study of j information on the industrial and commercial life of the Continent. For several hours on Monday he motored for nearly a hundred miles through the great oilfields of Northern Peru, largely controlled by English and Canadian interests. Tho Princes, landing at Cabo Blanco, were whisked by automobile up a thousand feet altitude in less than two miles along a road bristling with hairpin.bends, cut in a beetHng mountain side. At El Alto the Prince found a modern settlement with clubs and hospitals amidst a country yielding seven thousand barrels of oil daily. The Prince watched with interest the process of cleaning a well, and saw hundreds of feet of piping inserted. Further on drilling was in 'progress. The Prince was surprised to learn that the machinery was of American manufacture, and no British maker specialised in drilling machinery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 9
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185VISIT TO OILFIELDS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 9
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