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This cannon is commemorating an incident in 1921 where some oil tanks caught fire and the solution w...
This cannon is commemorating an incident in 1921 where some oil tanks caught fire and the solution was to puncture the bases of the tanks with cannonballs to let out the oil at the bottom, which wasn't on fire. The sign doesn't make a particularly convincing case that this was the actual cannon that was used though.


UTC Time: 00:11, Sunday 13 August 2017
Local Time: 18:11, Saturday 12 August 2017
Estimate of longitude: 106° 20' 42.04" W = -106.345010°
Estimate of latitude: 42° 50' 46.25" N = 42.846180°
Possible error on position estimate: 10 metres