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Show REFINED KEROSENE FLOWS FROM WELL Unusual Pind Is Made in Petroleum Fields at Ramsey, Near Peterborough, Peter-borough, England. LON'DON', July 2G. (By tho Associated Press.) Not only coal oil, hut refined kerosene, which may be burned In lamps, is flow hip from the inysterioud wells at Ramsey, near Peterborough. The oil was first discovered nearly two years as'o rising to the top of water wells In that town. A fter a thousand pal Ions or so had been collected the flow diminished, dimin-ished, but two or three gallons were gathered gath-ered from the top of the water each day until lately. On J uly 1 tw-o of the wells showed a largely increased, yield, which has continued. con-tinued. As the oil wag refined it was thought at first th;it It had linked from some tankai;'; station, but this lia. been i disproved by geologists, and the theory Is accepted thai by some frnak of nature the oil is purified in the strata and then forced to the surface through the only openings available. The vicinity of the find bus not bn drilled by the prospectors, w ho are now testing what are believed to be important oil fields In other parts of the kingdom. i |