Melvin Toles

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Title Melvin Toles
Identifier A1907
Subject Industry--Drilling--Water Well; Melvin Toles--Toles and Toles Drilling
Description Mel Toles drilled many wells from Artresia to Masadona and liked in this area while working there. He started Toles' Drilling and made a full sweep of Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming and all parts in between where there was an oil patch. His son, John, joined him and the business was known as Toles and Toles. Here he watches water gush out of an artesian well which he drilled for Earl Gadd. Gadd is wearing the white shirt and riding a horse.
Publisher Uintah County Regional History
Date 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
Language eng
Rights Management Digital Image, Copyright 2020 Uintah County Regional History Center
Bit Depth 8
Archival Resolution 5062 x 2807 pixels, 12 dpi,
Scanning Technician Ellen S. Kiever
Scanning Device Epson Perfection V800 Photo Scanner
Spatial Coverage Uintah County (Utah)
Donor Troy Burton Family
ARK ark:/87278/s6q297zk
Setname ucl_rhc
ID 1540389
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q297zk
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