Of the many exciting occupations followed by different individuals perhaps none is more exciting than shooting oil well, and Selig has portrayed such an operation with sufficient clearness to afford an excellent idea of how it is done. Even in the pictures there is a dash of excitement which is very thrilling and causes the spectators to catch their breaths. The picture is very cleverly produced and is sufficiently interesting to make those who see it want more. Such thrillers in commonplace industrial pictures are not common, and when one is produced it attracts much favorable attention. When the huge nitro-glycerin cartridge is exploded and a mass of sand, rock, oil, flame and smoke come pouring from the ground, rising high in the air the danger of a well shooter's occupation is better understood than it ever was before. It is an industrial subject alike instructive and startling. - The Moving Picture World, February 12, 1910
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